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[payback]

[Someone sounds like she's been drinking iron filings. Hoarse, in a word.]

Wow. I take everything I said about it being so weird that they weren't just smashing us back. I liked it like that. Peaceful was okay.

[A cough, and she switches over to text.]

Maybe we should be training down here? But I'm not sure I'm up for that yet. Let's play a game or something. Who's up for twenty questions?

Or, if you've passed through other worlds before, who'll talk about that? I'm just curious.

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[payback]

Maybe you can ask them to send you back

[bittertears]

If only it were that simple.

[payback]

Why wouldnt it be?

[bittertears]

Precious to me as it remains, it's no longer the Wonde- [she catches herself before saying the full name.]

It's not as I once knew it.

[payback]

well that's nothing new

nothing stays the same

[bittertears]

Thought not all change is good.

[payback]

Well no but that's normal. Maybe it evens out eventually in the end.

[bittertears]

It certainly didn't change for the better, but at the very least, the danger has passed.

[payback]

It could always go back the other way anyhow.

[bittertears]

What's good for it is good for myself as well.

[payback]

I mean it could still go better couldn't it?

[bittertears]

It will take time, if it's even a possibility.

[payback]

Well time is probably all right. It doesn't mean it won't happen.

[bittertears]

Rather optimistic, aren't you? Much more than I could ever be.

[payback]

Pessimism is boring and depressing.

[bittertears]

Perhaps you're right.

[payback]

I've done enough of that before, so I'd rather go the other way now.

[bittertears]

How fortunate that you decided this before it was too late.

[payback]

[She's rolling her eyes here, as unfair as that might be. What "too late," she thinks? If it wasn't too late for her to at least fake it, how can it be too late for Alice?]

Best of luck with the other way I guess.

[bittertears]

[When you lose all grip on reality and sanity, then she'll talk.]

I have a feeling I'll be needing it.