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[mastermephisto]

[The is a long pause before a soft voice speaks; it is feminine, and soft edged.] If you had the choice of going forward into a new life, without your friends, or staying here in this hardship stricken world with them, which would you decide?

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[covert_chord]

...Who are you?

Once more, with feeling...

[mastermephisto]

That depends on who you ask, and why.

I will answer without riddle. I'm sure you've seen my siblings, older and younger. We are the children of Purgatory, to put it simply. While many of you came from without, and were mortal, we are eternal, and we came from within. We've been asleep for a long time. We wished to sleep forever, but our mother would not allow this.

I'm a little different, though. I'm more like you, really.

gg. gg. :|

[covert_chord]

Your mother...? Who is your mother? And your siblings? ...No, I think I know. The hooded ones and the children, correct?

How are you more like me?

I'M SORRY, REL. :|

[mastermephisto]

You should know my mother, really, very well; you've been living in her stomach for a long time, now, Allelujah.

Maybe.

I'm more like you than my sisters and brothers because I'm not all good or all bad. But you can be purified and I can't... I wonder if I'd become something else if I envied you! But anyway! Tomorrow, perhaps, you'll see.

[shooting_blanc]

Define "a new life."

[mastermephisto]

Somewhere placid. Warm. Maybe your world had a 'Heaven'? Like that.

[shooting_blanc]

...somehow, I feel the question is still loaded.

Regardless, wishing to remain here is little more than consigning yourself to oblivion. While I'd miss the people I've met here- I fully plan to find my way to freedom eventually- and to do what I can to help others along the way as well.

[mastermephisto]

They might call you noble.

[mileina]

It would be really lonely without them though, wouldn't it?

[mastermephisto]

But there wouldn't be any more tears, and you would be clean as the day you were born... Doesn't it sound nice?

[ttlymostspecial]

I would stay.

[mastermephisto]

Why?

[ttlymostspecial]

Everything I have is here. Without it...

[mastermephisto]

But you could get more. Throw away the shell and the pain and feel as you have never before.

[hrlsoldier]

I would stay here.

[mastermephisto]

Why, Soma?

[hrlsoldier]

Because there are still people who need me here.

An ... entirely new life?

[mastermephisto]

Are there? Whom?

Yes. A life without pain, and only joy.