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[nomoresharks]

I've an odd question to ask, if you'll indulge me.

Let us say a world exists where all work toward the betterment of their world, where none go without, and no one need be separated from their loved ones before they could bid farewell. Each day is peaceful and productive, and you know your place within it. You need not leave until you are ready, and only when you feel fulfilled.

Would you choose to live in this world or the one you came from? Why?

And to those who know why I ask this question, I pray you answer as well, and do so honestly. I promise 'tis in the spirit of keeping an open mind.

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[nomoresharks]

I... don't doubt that.

Ever has Emet-Selch been guided by duty, but ever has he been a man of great sentiment.

I've managed to put enough together to realize you and yours may have been the ones to do the deed, so to speak, when it comes to him.

As much as it hurts to admit, I think you may have done him a kindness that day.

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[onlythans]

you know we've met, you and i
before all this i mean
tis how i recognized you first off

twasn't for long
and i don't remember much of the particulars for reasons i'll not get into
but the two of you, you and him, saved my life

so though i know it's not much by way of consolation
you might still keep this much as hope
whatever else may or may not come to pass you will see him again

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[nomoresharks]

[It shouldn't be possible. He can't think of any scenario in which it is. He would have had to have lived through whatever's to come through all that, and there's no path he can even begin to think of where that's possible.

And yet...

And yet...

He desperately wants it to be true.]

Thank you.

And I'm sorry again.

For lashing out, I mean. You hardly deserved it.

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[onlythans]

well
twas softer than a fist to the face so i can safely say i've had worse

we should
well
talk again i suppose

i'm sure i can scrounge up something you'd care to know that isn't altogether negative

[says area man, SOUNDING EXACTLY LIKE CERTAIN AREA ASCIANS AGAIN]

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[nomoresharks]

[It's so uncanny that he needs a moment to put himself back together.]

Oh, I'm sure you'll be able to think of something. There are plenty of more pleasant mysteries to be found around here, I've found.