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[greatlightother]

[Sveta's back, friends! She's on the deck, dressed as if going to a ceremony. A long white dress whispers around her ankles and her hair falls loose around her face. She looks as if she had been crying once, but has since brushed it off, revealing only a few faint splotches of red around her eyes. She sets the camera down and takes a deep breath.]

Comments

private

[deepdowndark]

[very, very tersely.]

Did you do it?

Re: private

[greatlightother]

No. I left before I had to.

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

Will you, then, when you return?

Re: private

[greatlightother]

I'm not returning.

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

...This place doesn't always seem to give you the choice.

Will you?

Re: private

[greatlightother]

I've been here for over a year and a half. I have the choice now, dammit.

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

...A year and a half is not long in a lifetime of a thousand years.

Re: private

[greatlightother]

It doesn't matter. That's not my home anymore.

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

So you're going to stay here for eternity?

Re: private

[greatlightother]

Inmates can go somewhere else when they graduate. Why can't I go somewhere else when I graduate an inmate?

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

But where would you go?

I could go somewhere else, but nowhere has Dwarfish culture and history like I know it. Except the planet where I'm wanted on counts of treason and sedition by at least three societies.

Re: private

[greatlightother]

I don't care if they don't know. I don't.

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

My point is... where is home going to be but... where you just came from?

Re: private

[greatlightother]

I don't know!

Re: private

[deepdowndark]

Sorry.

I'm not trying to get at you. I just... it's probably a fair thing to consider, that's all.

Re: private

[greatlightother]

Not right now it's not. I tried to go home and I got nothing out of it but hurt.

Now I'm back here and...nothing's changed, either. It's all the same. All of it.