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[windsorknot]

Assuming that the City follows the Gregorian calendar like it seems to, Christmas is only a month away

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[construire]

Don't think they'll let us off in the spirit of Christmas?

[windsorknot]

Maybe. If only to let loose something twice as bad on New Years.

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[construire]

Maybe we'll be out by then.

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[windsorknot]

That would be the one Christmas present I would ever bother asking for, here.

Do you still think this place could be real?

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[construire]

Now, if we all put in the same order...

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[construire]

 

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[construire]

What if I said yes?

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[windsorknot]

I'd say that your argument holds more weight to me than it did before.

Being in a dream this long isn't impossible considering the sedation and how deep we went. The idea that everyone here is a projection, however, I'm willing to question. I still think it's possible, but I'm starting to entertain the idea of something else being at work here. A dream that follows a different set of rules than we're used to, maybe.

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[windsorknot]

And if not that, then this would all be real, wouldn't it? We'd all have to accept the idea that there's other worlds out there where superhuman abilities are the norm and so on.

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[construire]

Because we could be in limbo? What type of dream are you thinking about, Arthur?

Why would the rules be different?

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[construire]

I've said it before. I thought dream-sharing was impossible until it wasn't.

Maybe that's why I'm willing to believe this place could be real.

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[windsorknot]

Eames suggested the idea of the deities being architects themselves. Except somehow they've made it so that only they can manipulate this dream. It's an interesting theory even if there's a good amount of evidence to cast it in doubt. For one, I don't know how the rules could be different. Maybe some new kind of compound I've never heard of. Unlikely, but not entirely impossible.

Having an imagination like yours helps when it comes to understanding this place, I think. I just can't bring myself to take the idea of it being real seriously. Yet at the same time I know I shouldn't entirely rule out the possibility.

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[construire]

So you're saying that the deities are architects. Who are also projections? Can they really overpower us like that?

Even Mal didn't have that much power.

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[construire]

Unless there's someone else in the dream? We've been over this before. Anyone with a secret grudge against Cobb? You-- Eames?

Having an explanation's better than nothing. But everything's a guess at this point.

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[windsorknot]

In this case, they wouldn't be projections. We'd be the subjects and they'd be the dreamers.

There are people after me and Cobb. There's no way any of them were on the plane, though. As for Eames, well, he's wanted in more places than I'm willing to name in one breath.

I'm not a fan of working on just guesswork.

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[construire]

How... How can we trapped by our own minds? It's not like they're pointing a gun at us and saying we can't go. They're directly manipulating us, who we are.

And I'm pretty sure my mind's a lot more stable than this.