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I can't believe how much time people spend on these machines
and how much weirdly personal and/or sensitive information people seem happily inclined to spill on them. Or you'd think it was sensitive at least.

Anyway I think it's so interesting how badly people want to go home and say they have their own battles to fight and the Initiative's battle is not theirs. It's interesting because if the Initiative is to be believed then their fight is our fight too. Given that our worlds are likewise being plundered. I wonder which world of mine is actually being used but I can only really think that home would be good for it. Of course it's hard to trust these people. I wonder what they would have to do to win the whole group over though. Entirely it's probably an impossibility. There's too many different factors. They sure do let folks run with slack though.

Who remembers when we fought practice battles in our memories anyway?? I am interested in talking to you.

Also I want to play a game. Does anyone know a good word game?

Here are some riddles too.

1) You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
2) I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?
3) What can you catch but not throw?

Who thinks of these things anyway? [People are so strange.

SHE'S BORED YEAH...]

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Who was it you faced?

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Eh...

[She considers, for a moment, just not answering. But. Vanadi is her friend now, she guesses. And so... she switches over to the private code she was given, but she answers.]

The man I was with before.

permaprivate;

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Ah.

What was his name?

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Madara.

[... Yeah, no further info offered outright. If you wanna know, you gotta ask.]

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In which world was it you met him?

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The second one. The second one I went through. I was there for the longest.

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Ah... which one was that?

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This big city... monsters came out at night. It was ruled by these two corporations, I guess, pretty much. Most people who arrived tried to stick to a neutral faction. Or at least they acted like they did.

Why do you ask?

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I'm curious, is all. How did you meet him?

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Someone I knew was related to him, and I wanted to see what was going on with that. So I went to work for him for a while.

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And what was the job?

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He ran a bathhouse. I was an attendent.

You must know bathhouses, yes?

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My dear, it's safe to say that I'm more than a little familiar with anything that involves nudity.

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Somehow I'm not surprised to hear this.

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You and I come to know one another better and better by the day.

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Eugh, stop doing that.

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I'm only telling the truth!

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Nnnn.

[Vanadi do you even know how much you remind her of Madara sometimes.]

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You sound pained, my dear. Is that a common reaction to the truth, for you?

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That's not even a fair joke to make. How would you know?

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You've just proved that I know, haven't you?

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No. What??

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Well, nevermind that, for now. I'll pick this up again when I'm able to deliver to you your favorite breakfast in bed.

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What?

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What what?