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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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[postocular]

Hasn't been any different since I got here, anyway.

[ananym]

[ it's good to know. nice, even, though it feels odd to alucard. ]

This place does not change much, it seems.

[postocular]

It's mostly the faces that change. People come and go all the time.

[ananym]

Does that bother you?

[postocular]

Sometimes. It's harder when it's people you know, or when you get close to someone and they leave.

[ananym]

Even when they've left for something better?

[postocular]

So far, most people haven't really come from some place better? Just different. This place likes to bring people who are in the middle of something bigger.

[ananym]

That is certainly my experience.

What were you in the middle of?

[postocular]

[ Dying. ] A war.

[ananym]

[ yeah. that would do it. ]

I was in the middle of something similar.

[postocular]

Yeah? What were you fighting for?

[ananym]

To save humanity.

[postocular]

..Really? From what?

[ananym]

[ alucard cocks his head. ]

From the eternal dark and all that comes with it.

[postocular]

..Whoa. I'm sorry you were interrupted.

[ananym]

Yes, it was not the best time for me to be transported to an alien ship in the future.

[postocular]

Thankfully everything seems to stop while we're here? Almost like we never left.

[ananym]

Isn't that worse?

[ it feels like they're stuck, in a way. it makes it difficult to move on. ]

[postocular]

Maybe it was at first? But if you think about it, you have time to prepare, even if you don't remember it when you go back.

Almost like peace of mind?

[ananym]

[ peace of mind huh? ]

I suppose that is something worth achieving.

[postocular]

It just doesn't have to be all bad, even if the timing is shitty.

[ananym]

I do not think so. Though I was having difficulty in adapting.