-7th Dream- [voice]

[demonicbookworm]

Um, maybe this will sound like a stupid question, but...

[pause.]

...How would you... define "friendship"?

[...Because he is not sure himself. And he was thinking of asking about that for a while now]

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[Voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

[Trunks stops fiddling with his time machine, and stares curiously at his seal. What an odd question...]

It's, hmmm.... It's something that connects you with people you consider friends, I guess.

[Voice]

[demonicbookworm]

[well, that doesn't help too much.]

..."Friends"? [the main problem actually lies in this word.]

[Voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

Yeah, you know - people [like Son Gohan or Yamamoto or Makoto] who you... like being with? Someone you like talking to, someone you have in something in common with?

Maybe even someone who likes you back?

[voice]

[demonicbookworm]

But what if I don't have anything in common with that person? Or when I don’t talk to that someone too much?

[sorry, he's still a little confused.]

[voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

Hmmm...

Is there anyone you like being around? Someone whose company you enjoy?

[voice]

[demonicbookworm]

[thinking.]

...But I like talking and being around most of the people I know...

[Not like there's anyone he dislikes talking to. (except one person)

Does that mean they're all his friends? So confused...]

[voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

Well...

[Okay.... time for a different angle. A tiny screwdriver twirls in his hand as he thinks.]

Is there anyone among them who you really trust?

[voice]

[demonicbookworm]

[he thinks about it.]

...Yeah.

[voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

Why do you trust them? Why do you like talking to them, or being in their company?

[voice]

[demonicbookworm]

Well... we were traveling together for a really long time... [and they all new each other from past life, but he's not going to say that.

Also, yes, he is talking about his friends from his world, who unfortunately are not here.]

[voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

Aside from having traveled together, is there any particular reason why you put your faith in them, or why you went with them for that long?

[voice]

[demonicbookworm]

We were all... in a similar situation. [let's call it like that.] ...And we had the same goal.

[voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

[He scratches his head for a bit. This is taking more effort than he thought....]

But apart from a shared goal, is there anything else that makes them, ah... special, to you? Is there anything about these people that mean something to you, that doesn't depend on all of you having to work together?

[voice]

[demonicbookworm]

[he's really sorry about that...]

I... always thought of them as friends. I didn't have any friends before I met them...

[he pauses.]

I... I'm good for nothing, but they were always helping me, or tried to cheer me up... I was really happy to be able to travel with them... and to do something to help them, too...

[he starts to feel homesick.]

I really miss them... But I'm sure it's better that they're not stuck here...

[voice]

[saiyajinsoul]

There you go. That's what makes someone your friend.

[a pause.]

If it helps, when the city sends someone back, that person is returned to when the music box first finds them. Time wouldn't have passed back home the way it has here.

[voice]

[demonicbookworm]

[still a little unsure.]

I know about that. But still... [he sighs a little.] ...being stuck here isn't something good. [and he knows some of his friends wouldn't be happy if they had to be stuck here.]