023. [Video]

[internecineowl]

[The wind blows - you can hear it, with the crashing of the water below. Nagi is sitting on the docks today, and the camera overlooks the view - the foamy waves, the mist-shrouded lighthouse. He sighs.]

Today marks six months here. Half a year.

[A little pause, and a sigh.]

I wonder if time moves differently in this world than in my own. I

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[ voice ]

[lonestray]

[Ignoring the alcohol part of this post completely, because good lord he never wants to do that again.]

Six months...it will have been that long for me in two weeks. [He almost can't believe it. How time does fly.]

Do you wish to return to the world you came from, if it were in fact possible?

[It's more curiosity than anything.]

[ voice ]

[internecineowl]

It isn't so much that I'd want to, but... I have unfinished business there. So yes, I guess I would need to return.

You?

[ voice ]

[lonestray]

As far as I understand about how this world works, considering all the timeline confusion that happens here... your self from your world would still be able to carry on your business, wouldn't he?

[There's barely a moment of hesitation before his answer] No.

[ voice ]

[internecineowl]

I'm afraid wouldn't claim to know.

I doubt anyone can know until we've learned more about the Door and the various worlds it draws on.

...no?

[ voice ]

[lonestray]

It would just seem so, since people come in with memories of events that haven't yet occurred for us.

[There's definitely a pause this time.] No. There's nothing I have to return to.

[ voice ]

[internecineowl]

Yes, but. I wonder if there might be some other explanation.

If not then we'll need to wonder where the vanishing people have truly gone.

[ voice ]

[lonestray]

They could have died. We already know the Mist strips corpses.

[ voice ]

[internecineowl]

Yes... that is a thought I've been trying to avoid. But we can't deny the possibility.