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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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I wasn't, and I'm terribly sorry to have given the impression!

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Okay...

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And, even if I was— well, it would hardly have been your fault. I would rather keep your company than not.

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That's rather kind of you to say. I think most of the time it is me who brings things around to that kind of conversation. I don't know. Maybe it would be better just to act like I didn't think of it.

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I suppose it's... always an option.

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I don't know. It just seems to depress people. Most of them have a better outlook...

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Well, that depends rather on how good at it you are.

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Probably pretty okay at it... most people never ask, anyway.

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Most?

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Almost nobody, I guess.

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Good odds, I suppose.

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Don't you think it's true?

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Ah— that what's true?

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Most people don't ask each other questions. Don't you think?

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Well, I would say it depends entirely on the who in question. Some people ask entirely too many, it always seems.

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I don't know. I feel like it's easy to put most people off.

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"Most"— there's that word again, my dear. It seems to me that now and then the ones that aren't so easily deterred inevitably crop up. Love them or hate them, I suppose.

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I'm neutral, I guess, depending. But don't you think it's weird that they're so infrequent?

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Weird? Perhaps not. We do rather like to keep to our own worlds.

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Maybe... but it's only common sense to be curious about everyone you have to share so much space with, isn't it?

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I may have to disagree. The first instinct of many is not to involve themselves in the cares and sorrows of others.

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... But we are involved whether we want to be or not. Because we're fighting together.

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So you'd think. So I like to think. And... for the most part, here, it seems to be occasionally true.

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Yeah... I mean, I'm okay with not being asked questions. It's just weird.