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Who: A ~mysterious anonymous poster~ and you
Broadcast: Anonymous text
Action: In her room on the Bishop, if you really want to say hello
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[It's taken Nightingale a while to figure out how to make the anonymous text function work, and even longer to decide it's worthwhile to post. Still, she doesn't have anything else to do, and this has been eating at her for a while...]

I realized recently it's been over a year since I was last home. Over a year since I've ever seen anyone from my world, even. And that year has been kind of a mess. Now I'm two crazy worlds removed from home, and it's not looking like I'll get to go back anytime soon. It's just now really starting to sink in. I'm starting to get homesick, I guess. But I know there's a bunch of people here who have been here even longer than I have. Or have a lot more pressing things to get back to. So... How do you cope? How can you deal with this for so long? After this long, my usual distractions aren't really working so well anymore.

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[what are the cheery answers he has for her questions?]

i dont know

Very helpful.

You don't wallow. That's it. It doesn't solve anything, makes you feel worse Go and talk to people you like Go and pick a fight with people you don't like Treat it like an extended vacation from home You'll go back eventually

"Eventually" is a scary word in this context. What about the people back there?

I feel you there. The same thing, actually over a year from home with two different crazy worlds in-between it. It's never easy.

[Sometimes, he feels homesick, but it's more for his own kind than it is for Equestria itself. Equestria's a pretty shitty place what with the near-constant border attacks and whatnot. At least there isn't some horrific monster trying to destroy his world's existence ever other month here. ]

I travel a whole lot. When we hit new planets? I just pack light and travel the planet for a while, meet new people, learn new things. That helps a lot.

[She's responding in text, because she definitely doesn't want to risk Cheese overhearing her answering, since they're on the same ship.]

It's comforting to know I'm not alone there. I did a lot of visiting weird places at home, though. It was sort of my hobby. It makes it a little harder to enjoy that here, in this kind of a mood.

[he responds after he's had a chance to cool down from what happened earlier today.]

I cope by doing what I always do. I keep walking. I try to live my life as if the present matters as much as my time back home.

[Wise move on her part. He'd only try to make her feel better with a party or something.]

Hmmm, you got a point.

Maybe try to do some things with your crew? I mean, if you got a good one, you can get a real sense of family there. It makes everything a little more bearable, having people around you can feel comfortable with.

...

And yeah, I know the deal with places like this. That they could vanish in a second, but that's why you gotta make the most of it while you can.

[cheese no parties are the opposite of helping]

I don't know about that. My crew is nice, but I don't know how close they'd consider me. I'm not really good at talking to people, after all. Yeah. I had a couple people I knew from before, when I got here, but they're gone now, too.

Just to clarify, are you suggesting walks to take my mind off it, or was that a metaphor? That's a good way to go about it, at least. But it's not so easy to convince myself that.