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[oversea]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

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[lucentia]

Greetings. [...] How do you feel?

[oversea]

I was healed by the river.

[ so he feels fine (physically) ]

[lucentia]

I suspected Elysium would ensure that, but that is not quite what I wanted to know.

[oversea]

[ he figured but he had to try. ]

Despite knowing what this place is like, I was still unprepared for all of that.

[lucentia]

... That doesn't surprise me. We all would like to think we are ready once armed with awareness, but it does sound like something that is... difficult to truly expect.

Did you also have your memories altered?

[oversea]

Maybe. People are saying that's the case.

[ so that's what he assumes is true... ]

[lucentia]

Then, you have not noticed any change yourself since returning?

[oversea]

Elysium said some things to me I didn't understand. But it seems a little farfetched that I'd forget an entire country.

[lucentia]

[...

looks a little horrified by this.]

[oversea]

What?

[ he said it's farfetched so it could not have happened. ]

[lucentia]

[makes a mental note to check on elysium even though he knows elysium will simply dodge.]

... No, it's nothing. [...] May I ask for your recount of what happened? Of course, if you are uncomfortable with speaking of it, I will not pressure you to.

[oversea]

It's fine. I've already told some people.

[ there's not much point in saying no now. ]

We all woke up at a brothel. We each individually remembered being killed by someone, but not who or why. We had to figure out who did it to pay back a karmic debt.

[lucentia]

A karmic debt...?

[oversea]

We had to kill them in return, basically.

[lucentia]

... Oh.

[lucien would've failed that cyoa so badly.]

[oversea]

It was difficult, especially since we learned they had killed us for good reason. We upset a rat.

[ a pause. ]

By being human traffickers.

[lucentia]

What!?

[?????]

[oversea]

It's what we apparently did at that world. So, people we knew ended up killing us to get us to stop.

We only learned about all that after though.

[lucentia]

... I'm sorry. Even if it wasn't truly real, it must have been... quite jarring to learn.

[oversea]

... It was. We ran into people affected by it, and even if it was all fake, their emotions were vivid. We hurt them.

[ it's difficult to just brush past it. ]

[lucentia]

... May I ask how things were resolved, in the end?

[oversea]

We all separated, so I don't know how exactly the others handled their situation.

[ he has a very good guess, because of reasons, but he can't say definitively. ]

But I killed the person.

[lucentia]

[a little nod, grim, in acknowledgment.]

Did it end there, then?

[oversea]

... No. But the rest was odd. We had to decided if we all deserved to live or not.

[ metaphors are not his thing... ]

[lucentia]

[well, lucien is not going to be rude enough to ask how thorns answered that.]

Did your answer seem to make a difference?