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[freemade_grace]

[video/action]

[Jill is seated with her back to a bush, staring at a few of the robots. She has a notebook open in her lap.]

Constructed Intelligence...except there's no Council for you, is there?

[She sighs, looking down at the paper.]

Tell me if you think this is any good, if you can.

Comments

[restlessdevil]

Sounds good to me. I'm not exactly well-read when it comes to poetry, though. I think it'd be impossible for me to even write any.

And sometimes we all need to brood. [Smiles]

[freemade_grace]

[She blinks at the vine, but shrugs it off. Nosy little thing.]

I'm finding that speech making and poetry are more similar than I thought.

Brooding is healthy, but I'm thinking of the type who cries, gets smashed, and then starts reading their work in a loud voice until they get booed down.

[restlessdevil]

Interesting. [Zenobia thinks. Could she write a speech? She's never really tried.] So, if the poem's to be believed, you're pretty awesome, huh? People call you a legend?

Haha, ah, that sort of brooding. The "no one understands me or how unique I am so keep the ale coming, barkeep" kind.

[freemade_grace]

When I was alive, yeah. Don't mean to brag, but...I was famous, in good and bad ways. Only for doing what I thought was right, but it was the first thing to come to mind.

"I've graduated with top honours, you'll all weep when I'm better than you all, greater than the sun!" There were so many of them back home.

[restlessdevil]

So... you're dead now? [Tilts head.]

I guess that's how great legendary people do it, too. Just doing the best they can. I suppose the difference is the impact they have on the world?

I knew some people like that. They could be downright intolerable.

[freemade_grace]

Was. Seems I'm alive again, all good as...however I was before, even restoring my arm. Crazy thaumaturgy the Queen has.

And what they leave behind.

Most of them went into either religion or became sobbing wrecks.

[restlessdevil]

Wow. Guess I wasn't the only one who benefited from being brought here.

Huh, I see. That makes sense, thinking about it. After someone legendary has come and gone, something's always left behind. Even if that thing is merely "change."

[freemade_grace]

Did she pull you out of a bad spot?

...Change, I would hope so. If anything changed at all, I'd think I succeeded.

[restlessdevil]

Yeah, I was sealed away in an enchanted mirror. So I pretty much got really lucky when I ended up here.

I don't think I ever changed much of anything, especially not for the better.

[freemade_grace]

Good to know that not everyone thinks they were kidnapped.

Well, that's debatable. You could have changed more than you think you did.

[restlessdevil]

Yeah. I feel bad for them, but honestly, I'm really liking this place.

Hmm... maybe you're right. [But she doubts it a little...]

[freemade_grace]

Maybe the Queen can only keep the willing and send the rest back. Win-win situation.

[restlessdevil]

Yeah, that'd be awesome. [But then the amount of cute girls around would drop drastically...] I wonder how many people we'd have left after the exodus...

[freemade_grace]

Enough, I think. It's a little paradise, and some just get sick of a predictable reality.

[restlessdevil]

It's paradise, all right. Good to know if people are ever allowed to leave that at least some will probably still stay.

Though what worries me is that I hear that some people randomly disappear, apparently returning to their own world. [Zenobia really doesn't like that idea. No way is she going back. No way.]

[freemade_grace]

...Do you think her powers fade over time and so then people are pulled back?