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[flameinsideme]

[It's dark, but Liz is out anyway. She's found herself a bench to sit on, and is flipping her pocket watch communicator open and shut again and again. It's this process that eventually turns it on and intermittently shows Liz's face, cast in only the glow from the screen and the lantern hanging nearby. She looks, distant, somewhere far away from

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[ergaleomancer]

Avoiding the question doesn't change it, no. Better to find a way to change it, and to do that you need to ask the question and brace for whatever answer may come.

[flameinsideme]

Not sure there will be one. But, I suppose you're right. Nothing to do but suck it up. [A faintly humorless smile.] The band-aid strategy.

[ergaleomancer]

You never know if you don't find out~. So tell me, what's this question you're avoiding~?

[flameinsideme]

Suppose so. [A pause and she shakes her head. She's not really keen on sharing right now.] One I don't really think I'm comfortable chatting about.

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[angelic_phale]

Naturally, my dear. It's a common fear.

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[flameinsideme]

Mm. [She nods.] Still, it's a little silly, isn't it? Like thinking the monsters in the dark can't find you if you just hide under your covers as a child...

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[angelic_phale]

[a chuckle]

It's human. Even I've managed to accomplish it.

The wquestion as to it not changing things however - the answer to that is that it can. I've lived long enough to know that it's the small things that change the world - something like the 'Butterfly Effect'. Something could change if you ask the question, possibly - but something else could happen if you don't.

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[flameinsideme]

[A tilt of her head to the side and she smiles just faintly.] I suppose that's true, isn't it? There's no knowing either way what the right decision is either.

[Another smile, this one rather wry.] Cat's alive and dead at the same time.

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[amnesiachearts]

[Here's an unfamiliar face, Liz. There might be a slight bit of understanding in Xehanort's expression, but he hides it fairly quickly.]

No. I have always sought the answer to my questions, and never shied away from asking them. I've been told I ask too many, at times...

And who is to say that things never change?

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[flameinsideme]

[Liz is used to unfamiliar faces around this place. She nods though.]

I think that's a strength more than anything, not being afraid to ask things.

[She pauses.] Things change. That much is true. Not always for the better, but they do change.

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[amnesiachearts]

It's just as much fueled by fear as what you described. What if one day, you lost the ability to ask questions, or pursue the answers to them?

Did your own question come about because of something changing?

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[flameinsideme]

I hadn't really thought of that. [Call her complacent on that particular issue.]

Mm. Something like that. This place in particular, maybe.