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[stoicloyalty]

[ Something has been bothering her since the Core started to yank newcomers back. It has taken days for Chane to gather her thoughts completely, whilst distracted by daily life-- getting started with work, fixing up the minor damage from the earthquake... Her words seem resolved to communicate what she can, although still fragile with uncertainty

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[ysobritish]

Perhaps you haven't considered that some people don't have homes to go to. They're dead in their worlds.

Or perhaps we simply treat them as dead because they essentially die to us in order to go back.

For some of us, the only world left is this one. So don't you dare disregard our grief when we lose people close to us since because you can't understand it.

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[stoicloyalty]

You are correct. I cannot understand it. I cannot understand a grief over somebody who is, potentially, still alive.

However, you-- and many others-- are telling me about the other circumstances in which a person may return and not live. Circumstances I was unaware could happen.

But do not assume I disregard your grieving with the reasoning that I do not understand why you do it.

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[ysobritish]

Whether they are alive or not, they are gone to us. Grief does not occur because of sorrow over death, but sorrow over losing another person. Therefore it can still apply whether they are alive or not.

And there is no guarantee that they return "home" at all. They may simply have been eliminated by the Core.

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[stoicloyalty]

[ There's some food for thought-- she continually thinks of those left behind in her world, with the constant knowledge (or, now that she looks at it this way, hope) that they are alive, but not necessarily safe without her presence. If losing another person entails losing all further knowledge of them... It is a heavy thought that weighs on her heart, and she cannot reply on the same grounds to it. ]

The Core can do that?

[Permavoice]

[gavesugar]

'Tis a way to keep alive hope, I suppose. I wouldst rather believe him...to be alive than dead.

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[stoicloyalty]

So do I, when it comes to those not in this place.

Does feeling that way give you more hope?

[gavesugar]

La; It increases my faith. Faith is near the only thing I hath always clung to.