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[dontdrinkthe]

[Alone out on the docks, a young teenage boy has been turning a bright pink orb in his hands distractedly, wondering just how to make it work. The voices he has heard from within its sphere have not been surprising to him, he is always surrounded by voices, and he pays little mind to them. Yet still, he assumes it to have some... purpose. He is

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[zealouspeter]

Hello? [another telepathically connected NV? well, Shiroe was interested.]

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[zealouspeter]

Most definitely. [they are about as strange as it gets.]

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[dontdrinkthe]

Does it matter what lies beyond, if it can't be reached?

[It's a very serious question to him. He had... once created a place much like this island. He had trapped thousands of people inside his Zone with no escape... But he had done it because the world was irradiated. It was the right thing? Wasn't it...]

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[zealouspeter]

Who's to say we'll never get to leave and reach it? There's an entire planet to explore outside of this city, and just a tiny machine to keep us here.

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[dontdrinkthe]

[Maybe he shouldn't ask but...]

Do we know that the rest of the planet is there? It hasn't been destroyed?

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[zealouspeter]

[... technically nnnno, but...]

[Shiroe's not normally a hopeful person. but when he does get something to hope in, it's a near obsession.]

The people from the rest of the world have interacted with us. With that, it can't be destroyed.

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[dontdrinkthe]

That's good...

[What an understatement, Artemis.]

Maybe we will see it one day.

[He wasn't that worried about it, he would get out eventually but he couldn't really vouch for anyone else's immortality.]

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[zealouspeter]

Would you wait until then to learn about it?

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[dontdrinkthe]

There's time enough, to learn both. Here and there.

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[zealouspeter]

You could disappear back home at any time, though. Or die! Who knows what will happen tomorrow.

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[dontdrinkthe]

[The clairvoyant kid knows all about it.]

It's better, not to know.

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[zealouspeter]

Why do you think that?

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[dontdrinkthe]

[More excessive silences. Maybe he shouldn't have said it. Maybe he just shouldn't think about it. But how was he meant to avoid it when the future was all around him? He breathed it in constantly.

And now he has to think of how to explain this without giving too much away]

I think... they would trip over each other. Now, and the future.

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[zealouspeter]

Trip, and cause nothing but uncertainty and hesitation?

Or rash decisions, trying to force them to untangle?

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[dontdrinkthe]

Both.

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[zealouspeter]

You've experienced being caught in it?