[Week 31, Day 3, Afternoon] And Then You Were Older
[Though Gau and Raikou’s departure weighs heavily on her mind, Lenalee starts the video with a small smile. She isn’t sure where to begin, with so many thoughts tumbling through her head, but having deliberated for a few hours she is convinced that things are never going to get any clearer. So Lenalee starts speaking without quite knowing where it
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[But a lot has happened to him, some bad, some amazingly good. Matt spins his cigarette around between his fingers as he thinks this over.]
But I guess I'm kind of a old-timer here, too. First thing I remember was about six months ago, by the way the days go here, and it seems longer, doesn't it?
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It is weird. I've started keeping track of time by the seasons-- it moves differently that at home, but somehow even that feels normal now. It does make it hard to keep track of things like birthdays, though.
[She pauses a second before giving into curiosity.]
What do you mean, when you say that you don't feel any older?
[Lenalee certainly does.]
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I feel different, just. Not older.
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It's hard to say yet. I think that... even with that, we're probably all growing.
[She doesn't like the idea of remaining static. How could they, with all that happened?]
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[He hopes he'll get to see. It's totally better than the alternative.]
Have you been here long enough to remember the place before the natives? It's funny, we're kind of more native than they are, really.
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[She considers it a moment, then nods.]
In a way. But this is the only world they have ever known, so I think that they are more deserving of the title.
It used to be a lot emptier here.
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Makes you wonder if the fake gods are gonna change the world out from under us again sometime.
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[Even if the changes themselves weren't bad, getting used to an entirely different world was not pleasant. Some stability was appreciated.]
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