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[ananym]

[ there's a pretty vampire, looking into the camera curiously before speaking. ]

I have been meaning to ask. Is there anything that you have learned here that has changed your lives?

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[ananym]

. . . Perhaps not.

[ but he's not convinced. alucard isn't sure he could move on until his father's been defeated.

even if he doesn't know what he'll do with himself afterwards. ]

[sinistral]

Which begs the question of what you'd want to learn here.

[A question that might not be so easily answered, of course.]

[ananym]

What can we learn here? What can be gained?

There must be something.

[sinistral]

In the short time I've been here, I've already learned there are aliens and androids. There are worlds apart from my own. There's more technology, different technology, places with no technology at all. Even time apparently isn't as straightforward as I'd believed.

I should think any one of those things would count as something, and that's hardly scratching the surface.

[ananym]

[ that's fair. but alucard does not think that has changed him. it's nice to know the world is big. he's pensive, long hair falling over his shoulders. ]

I will not discount it. But does it change us, to know the world is vast? Does it change the way we approach people? Does it impact on our truths?

Are you changed in any way after coming here? That is what I'm looking for. A form of growth.

[sinistral]

Absolutely. Finding out that the world is a hell of a lot bigger than it was even a few weeks ago? I would think that would make anyone reevaluate his idea of his place in it.

What to do with that knowledge? It's up to each of us to decide that, I think.

[ananym]

[ alucard absorbs this thoughtfully. ]

I have one last mission. After that, I do not know what will happen to me.