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[finalstanza]

A Random Nexus Portal [tm] flares to life not too far from the Sign, just long enough to reveal a Spartan, metal-walled fortress interior

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[random_xtras]

"I do not think so," said the dark haired man who sat on a nearby couch with a tiny lilac haired woman and three babies, one of whom was furry, blue, and trying to climb the wall.

[finalstanza]

Shying away from the children in general and the fuzzy one in specific -- he had no idea what to make of children -- Ballade looked puzzled.

"Why? Once should be an end, shouldn't it?"

[random_xtras]

"I have found that it is not always the end of a story." The man reached up and gently patted the indigo girl's back and she paused and perked long pointed ears toward him.

[finalstanza]

"It's only not the end if your creator has plans. Not everyone gets brought back ..."

Ballade watched the little exchange, but continued to look confused and a little wary.

[megadidit]

"Can you really die more then once?" questions a voice from a nearby tree. "Isn't dying kinda....it."

[finalstanza]

"All functionality lost -- that's 'death', isn't it ...?"

Padding over to the tree, Ballade peers up -- and stops, eyes widening.

[megadidit]

"If you can be fixed then it wasn't lost, just-" Rock stops at the look. He's very rarely gotten that look and he doesn't like it. He slinks back and hides partially behind a branch.

[finalstanza]

"Just ... what? Does it make it different, then?"

Not liking this reaction at all but on some level not surprised, Ballade ducks his head and backs away a few paces.

"... I don't know why I'm here. The Doctor doesn't know."

"Don't hide --"

[deathwithanankh]

"Little bit," Death says. "Doesn't stop it from happening, though."

[finalstanza]

"It would be ... nice, if it did stop. But I don't think it will."

[deathwithanankh]

"Sorry about that. You never know, though. Eventually it stops for everyone."

[finalstanza]

"You sound certain."

And Ballade is just as perplexed by that, as anything else.

[sweethellion]

If dying is anything like being in a coma, then yeah, not so much fun.

[finalstanza]

"I don't know. 'Coma' doesn't happen for me."

... which might not be exactly true, but Ballade doesn't know that.

[sweethellion]

*snort* I thought the same thing until it happened.

[finalstanza]

"I don't think it's the same situation, at all."

The snort draws a briefly-irritated glance; Quint would get the same kind of tone, sometimes.

[man_of_means]

"Not really, I die frequently. Homunculi self-resurrect, though, so I don't know if it counts."

[finalstanza]

"I think ..."

A long pause; it looks like Ballade needs time to work this one out.

"I think, that if you're meant to come back again, it's not the same thing?"

[man_of_means]

"But for that moment I am clinically dead."

[finalstanza]

"Clinically dead? I don't understand."