002 - the grateful dead

[mayitlastforeve]

[Phone]

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I'll admit to being thankful to be able to sleep again. And that providing fresh meat to the entire populace like this is very generous. But if you want my thanks without qualification you will have to allow us to come and go as we please. If your town is as enticing as you believe we will all stay or return of our own volition.

[Naal has

Comments

[emperorsangel]

Were you previously unable to sleep?

[mayitlastforeve]

Not well or often.

[emperorsangel]

Hopefully a few good nights of sleep will be helpful for you.

[mayitlastforeve]

It won't help. It is only a convenience.

[emperorsangel]

What type of help do you seek?

[mayitlastforeve]

I don't. There are others who need it more.

[emperorsangel]

You admit to there being something...

[mayitlastforeve]

But it isn't a thing you, or anyone else, can help me with.

[emperorsangel]

Try me. You may never know.

[mayitlastforeve]

Can you restore life to the dead?

[emperorsangel]

Being dead myself, I can't say that's possible.

[mayitlastforeve]

It is the same for me.

[emperorsangel]

Then we have something in common.

[mayitlastforeve]

...perhaps. You should understand, then, why I want no help.

[emperorsangel]

It changes nothing, in my mind.

[mayitlastforeve]

How can it change nothing that my troubles are beyond your power to affect?