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[chosengigolo]

[Dictated; tapping the journal a few times]

So this is some kinda communicator? That's why all the voices coming from it, right?

Okay. Glad we got past that!

[claps his hands together, it's a bit muffled because he's wearing gloves]So! Who wants to explain to me what in the world's going on

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[cloakand_danger]

Yes. [His tone is just a little bit flat, but then he continues normally.] In fact, nearly everyone you know has come through here at one point or another over the past- [he pauses to recalculate his time frame] -nearly four years now.

[chosengigolo]

Hold up.

I thought there was no escape. That's what everyone's been saying.

[cloakand_danger]

Do you think I'd still be here if we could leave voluntarily? [Yuan sounds increasingly grumpy.] There's no escape, but the castle sends people home sometimes. They never remember their previous stay when they return, either, as evidenced by my needing to explain this to you.

[chosengigolo]

Probably not...[Then again, what IS Yuan going to do with his time now with Cruxis gone...?]

-- You saying I've been here before?

[cloakand_danger]

Four or five times since I arrived - I stopped keeping exact count.

1/2

[chosengigolo]

Four or five-

[chosengigolo]

...Heh.

Guess I'll have a lot of hunnies to be apologizing to.

[cloakand_danger]

You've been gone long enough this time. Most of them have probably forgotten you ever existed.

[Or rather, most of the ones who knew him have more than likely gone home by now.]

[chosengigolo]

Ouch, Yuan. That's a cold thing to say.

[cloakand_danger]

It's the reality of this place. With people coming and going so frequently, things change quickly around here.

[chosengigolo]

But you've been here awhile, huh?

[cloakand_danger]

Four years in another month. [His tone is strange when he says it, distantly unhappy but not quite irritated.]

[chosengigolo]

-- Four years?!

[cloakand_danger]

Don't worry. I'm sure you won't last that long.

[chosengigolo]

...Somehow that came off as insulting.