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[havea_heart]

[At 17, Herz had just survived his last growth spurt. He was just settling into his new, deeper voice, which was still prone to crack on occasion. He had some baby fat to work off, limbs he wasn't entirely sure even tried to listen to him, and a clean face. No scars.

It's honestly a hard face to look at, 'least for him. He remembers the boat just

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[ntjstapwn]

*Ignoring the 'body's gone back to a prior point' thing, which he doesn't understand anyway, Marco Felix has one question.*

Your eyes are black?

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[halfa_heart]

...Yeah.

Y-you're, uhm...

[Marco's ID.]

You're...new?

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[ntjstapwn]

Yeah, I guess. I don't have any idea what's going on here.

*He was pissed, and then he was confused, but now he's mostly tired. And sounds it.*

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[halfa_heart]

The, uh...the Captain of--of the boat can alter the passengers whenever he wants. He--he made me, uh, younger. Than I usually am, by, uh. By a year or two.

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[ntjstapwn]

*He sighs, sounding rather fed up.*

Everybody keeps fucking telling me that and I still don't believe it.

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[halfa_heart]

Okay, you, uhm, y-you know this number? My--my number.

Go back, uh, one entry. I--I'll sound different, I promise you.

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[ntjstapwn]

Uh...

*Please hold. Felix isn't familiar with this thing yet. He picks back up after a couple minutes, sounding pissy again. Though he's mostly just covering up uncertainty*

So what? Maybe someone else used your account or you can do other voices.

*...*

Why were people chained up, though?

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[halfa_heart]

We--w-we don't know. It was random people, not--n-not really any connection between them...

Other people, at the same time, they--th-they were compelled to speak the truth. Me, included.

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[ntjstapwn]

This is too fucking crazy to be real.

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[halfa_heart]

Yeah, it--it's pretty nuts, huh?

[And now you get to face the brunt of an angry teen's angst.]

Been here over a--a-a year, it really hasn't picked up any. It just keeps getting stranger, or it starts doing different variations of the same pattern.

I'm--I'm nineteen, normally. I've--I've--I've been turned fourteen and fifty-something. Both were real, uh, real--real novel.

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[ntjstapwn]

...

*He doesn't believe it. Or, rather, he doesn't want to believe it, but he's running out of excuses not to. It was either real, a horribly elaborate prank (which he couldn't figure out a reason for) or some sort of drug trip. Felix was leaning towards the last one, but the only drug he had experience with was tobacco...so his knowledge of how others worked came from TV.*

...yeah, its pretty nuts.
If you've been here for a year how come you're still, well, here?

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[halfa_heart]

I dunno.

I...I-I dunno.

kinda hoping I-I don't disappear, actua--a-actually.

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[ntjstapwn]

*Wait, what?*

Why would you still want to be here instead of going home?

*Too confused for tact, sorry*

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[halfa_heart]

[Because he'd lose everything. Because he doesn't know how to function in the real world anymore. Because he's afraid of having to face everything he left behind. Because he may die, or worse.]

's...it--it's complicated.

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[ntjstapwn]

...your home must be really crappy.

*He feels sorry for you, though he doesn't take into account that Herz may have grown used to/to like this place.*

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[halfa_heart]

's...different.

Than here.

And I'm...different. Since...s-since...

I'm a--a much different person from the, uh, the guy who showed up here.

[An embarrassed smile tugs at the corner of his mouth, possibly leaking into his words.]

Age change notwith-w-withstanding.