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[soulofocean]

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[somekindofsin]

As selfish as it is, I don't suppose any of us like being left here while others return home. Human nature, and all.

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[soulofocean]

But didn't I filter-??

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[soulofocean]

Carl...

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[soulofocean]

Y-yeah. It's hard NOT to want her back, even if it means to play this place's game.

[somekindofsin]

If it can be called a game. If it's true that the City runs on our collective misery, then it has every reason to send friends away. Still! All we can do is soldier on.

[soulofocean]

I... keep thinking just that. I keep trying to get how this place works and why it allows good things to happen from time to time!

It's just GRIM to think it does it so that we feel worse later, but that's the most possible explanation that I see.

[somekindofsin]

Perhaps now isn't the best time to think about it.

Look on the bright side! At least it does allow good things to happen. It's easier to see yourself through difficulties if future happiness is a certainty.

[soulofocean]

...That's true. I just wish this place didn't keep the good stuff to a bare minimum, you know. Looking forward to getting out of here with Hikaru helps. Even if it may take forever.

[somekindofsin]

Now, I wouldn't say that good things are minimal here. It's all in the way you look at it.

You will, eventually. So far as I can tell, no one stays here indefinitely--not even the deities.

[soulofocean]

I haven't found a lot of those. Even if those I know of are really worth for a thousand.

You mean... even the freaks leave sometimes?

[somekindofsin]

Try looking harder and I'm sure you'll find some.

They certainly seem to. It enforces the idea that they're trapped here just as we are, with little enough power over their own situations.

[soulofocean]

H... How'd you know this? Aren't they the ones that run this place and send the curses upon us?? How come they may not be here to enjoy the show?

[somekindofsin]

Oh, I don't! It's merely speculation, but I know for a fact that the deities aren't the highest powers at work here. We can't know the limits of their power--not yet, at least--but there's every reason to suspect that it is indeed limited.

[soulofocean]

I was talking about that with Mister Lockon just yesterday! That this sea goddess that came to fetch her son kinda proves there really IS a higher power behind this.

[somekindofsin]

It does, which is... well. I suppose it's either extremely encouraging or deeply depressing, depending on how you view the higher powers' motivations.

[soulofocean]

I don't know. To think the freaks are just tools makes it all the more twisted. The truth stays the same: we're still stuck in this place for some high power's amusement.