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[have_your_lives]

[It's the silence that snaps him awake - more dissonant than any actual sound could ever be. It's like he's been struck deaf inside his own head. No, worse than that; while a person might have encountered a lack of sound before in their lives, Schuldig has almost never had any lack of thoughts to listen to. Listen, hell; they've practically fought

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[bittermayfly]

...welcome to Hell. Weiss is here too.

[have_your_lives]

[There's a brief pause, but Schuldig relaxes a bit when he at least hears a familiar voice.] Hmph. You know we'd be running this place if it were Hell, Nagi.

I can't hear anything. What about you?

[bittermayfly]

What else would you call a place that considers me Siberian's son and makes us as normal as them?

[That's his way of saying that yep, he's powerless too.]

[have_your_lives]

[There's a pause, then a bark of laughter.] Siberian? Oh, yes, I can see the family resemblance.

[bittermayfly]

This isn't the time for joking.

[have_your_lives]

And who's joking?

So where are Farfarello and Crawford?

[bittermayfly]

They're not here. It was only me until now.

[have_your_lives]

You and Weiss, you mean? Though they'd hardly make for good company.

[bittermayfly]

You're not the one who has to live with one.

He claims his group had no part in this and without the elders, Eszett doesn't have the strength to.

[have_your_lives]

Unless they had strength held back that we didn't know about...but it would take more power than any of them had to keep it a secret from me, or to sneak it past Crawford.

And Weiss have a hand in this? I'm surprised you even considered it a possibility. When have they ever seemed that capable?

[bittermayfly]

Siberian took something from me before I joined you. He's stupid enough to try and make up for that.

[have_your_lives]

Hah! As if Weiss have ever been particularly overburdened by conscience. They're not all that different from us; they just torture themselves like Farfarello in their heads.

[bittermayfly]

Has anyone else explained the details of this mess?

[have_your_lives]

[a laugh] Not very coherently. I seem to frighten them, for some reason...

[bittermayfly]

[He's only been here a couple days, but he's already tested some limits and listened in on other explanations of everything. Information gathering is all he can do.]

This is Mayfield, a town modeled after someone's idea of 1950s America. Everyone is stuck into "families" based on their age and sex - one man, one woman, and children. Leaving town on the streets simply means you reenter it from the other side. We're made to fit their standards of normal at first, but apparently can get back what was taken.

Supposedly, death is impermanent, but I haven't had time to test it. There's talk on the phones of bizarre things that happen once in a while. Again, I have no proof of that.

[have_your_lives]

...and here I thought modern America would be a pain.

It all sounds ridiculously unbelievable, but if you of all people are buying it, there must not be much evidence against it.