[ whatever, allen. ]

[clowned]

I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself.

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[suchselfishness]

No, you're worse.

You care about the things that die for you.

[clowned]

That's not going to happen anymore.

[suchselfishness]

Because not wanting it to happen has worked wonderfully for you in the past.

[clowned]

This is different! They can't get hurt if I'm far away.

[suchselfishness]

How well did that theory work for your Master?

[clowned]

I'm not the same as him either.

[suchselfishness]

Obviously. You're not dead.

[clowned]

Stop talking about my Master like that.

[suchselfishness]

I said he's dead. It's not as if I called him a whore or a drunk- Not that those aren't true, too. But that's the least offensive thing I've said to you so far.

[clowned]

Don't say anything about him.

[suchselfishness]

Or what, Allen? You'll run away?

[clowned]

I'm not running from anything.

[suchselfishness]

Nothing at all. Just your 'friends'. My Family. The Apocryphos. Your fate.

[clowned]

I'm not running, I'm setting my own path.



I'm not doing this for myself.

[suchselfishness]

And where do you think that path is going to take you?

[clowned]

I won't know unless I follow it.

[suchselfishness]

And what if you get yourself killed in the process?

[clowned]

I have to try.

[suchselfishness]

... Right.

Well. If that's your reasoning, wouldn't it be better for you to be stuck somewhere else, too?

[clowned]

How will being stuck somewhere help me?

[suchselfishness]

It would be better for everyone else if you were gone.

[clowned]

Being gone and being trapped somewhere are not the same things.

[suchselfishness]

If you're trapped somewhere, you're not in our world. Which means that you're gone.

[ She hesitates, but finally decides to give him a bit of news that might ease his worries. ]

... People say that nothing happens in our world while we're in Death City, anyways.

[clowned]

How do they know?

[suchselfishness]

... Because I've been back. And nothing had happened, and no one had known I was gone.