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[anklets]

[This query brought to you by a pretty handful of missing puzzle pieces, not that you'd know, since Lenalee has no intent to justify or explain that imagery, nor to keep picking at scabs until they fester.]

We've already seen how the smallest change made can rewrite the entire history of this world. People are unborn, warheads are undropped... because we've cut out the circumstances which led to their happening.

How do you think that it might be the same for us? Transports come and go so often here and no one knows why. Whatever we do, we are always altering chances, there is no reason not to consider they could also be our own. That someone arrived on a day no longer existing may suddenly leave, or return by new circumstance, or forget they were ever here before.

It may be that we don't "go home", just. "Never arrive".

[ about ten minutes after broadcast, through careful squinting and experimentation, the feed is locked from Gilbert Nightray ]

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[reassures]

Do you think that makes a difference?

[anklets]

for some people

[reassures]

Does it make one for you?

[anklets]

i would be happier knowing

[A lie, thinly stretched.]

[reassures]

What if you don't like the answer?

[anklets]

[Aha, but. She's experience with that.] it's still an answer.

[reassures]

I suppose it is.

[A pause.]

Do you think it would be bad if they "never arrived"?

[anklets]

no.

[ feels her heart do a little twist when she writes that ]

when i came here, i met someone i knew from home, who had been here for much longer than me. i remembered things he did not, though he had surely been there alongside me. to me he had never gone anywhere.

[reassures]

That seems to be how it works in worlds like this. No one ever really remembers this place, regardless of the circumstances surrounding it.

Maybe you're right. Maybe your friend "never arrived".

[anklets]

it's that machine. the transporter.

[reassures]

You can't blame everything on the transporter. Someone needs to use it.

[anklets]

the united earth has one, too

[reassures]

The United Earth is to blame for many things.

So are we.

have i ever mentioned before how beautiful nill's icons are, seek

[anklets]

["All mistakes are human", wasn't that it...?]

even so, we need to learn about them, if we want to bring an end to all this.

aaaa thank you///

[reassures]

Do you think that's possible?

ywwwwwww :>

[anklets]

if it isn't, we'll have to try something else

<3!!

[reassures]

What else is there to try?

I know this way of doing things is wrong, but I don't know if we have any alternatives.

[anklets]

then we'll have to make our own.
we simply don't have the luxury to give up on hope.

[reassures]

Maybe not. But I'm not sure we can change things very easily.

[anklets]

do you think this has ever been easy?

[reassures]

No. Not ever.

[anklets]

then..!

[reassures]

"Then"?

[anklets]

then we've no reason to lose faith this time.

[ far easier said than done. her hold on faith has always been somewhat tenuous ]

[reassures]

Do you really think that?