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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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Nathaniel's in the training hall next morning, in his usual spot by the archery butts. He's already an excellent marksman, but the routine helps focus him and keep him grounded.

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Rin turns up at eight thirty, a nice median between both hours he suggested. She's armed, though not to shoot arrows, with a katana at her side and her swathed in a long bottle-green coat. She recognizes him from the video right away and comes over, speaking up between one shot and another.

"Mr. Howe?"

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Nathaniel had noticed the woman approaching out of the corner of his eye, but he doesn't pause in his practice until he hears his name. He lowers his bow and turns to her.

"Nathaniel, please." He smiles. "And you're Rin?"

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Rin dips a polite bow to him in turn. Maybe it wouldn't be in keeping with what he was used to but some of her behaviors that hearkened back to home were consciously maintained.

"That's right. You experienced that thing with the memories, when the Initiative was messing around with training..."

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Nathaniel's used to women curtseying rather than bowing, but he takes the action for what it is and returns it respectfully.

"I did, unfortunately. I had my own dream... and I went into others' as well."

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"Yeah, I went through several of those memories myself." Rin nodded. She wasn't really the type to beat around the brush so the next question was a straight shot across the bow: "I´m wondering if you ran into somebody different? A man in a cage, kind of? It didn't seem like a normal memory."