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[strangestbluerose]

The museum was a playground compared to this place. I'll find my way out. I promised her I'd see her again. You can't make me break that. ....not to her.

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[a_real_girl]

Ib is here too Gary.

[strangestbluerose]

[Oh not the most welcome face.]

Mary. Did you do something to her?

[a_real_girl]

No! I can't do anything here even if I wanted to. Which I don't.

I'm real here, there's no reason for me to try to take your place.

[strangestbluerose]

Not wanting to now doesn't erase what you did.

[a_real_girl]

I did it for a reason though. It isn't like you would of stayed in the museum willingly. I wanted to be human.

[strangestbluerose]

You don't know what I would have done because you didn't ask. And putting Ib in danger is inexcusable!

[a_real_girl]

Would you of stayed in the museum forever just so I could replace you in the real world?

[strangestbluerose]

I-... I'm saying that you didn't ask. [Garry's a nice guy. It's possible. Maybe.] It doesn't matter now.

[a_real_girl]

Hah! I'm right. You wouldn't of saved me.

I don't blame you for it though, you just wanted to get home like I wanted to be free.

[strangestbluerose]

[Bristle. He wants to object but there's no point in fighting about it.] Tch. None of that matters now. If you know where Ib is then tell me.

[a_real_girl]

I don't know where she is but when she sees you she'll probably run up to you.

She isn't in any danger here, none of us are.

[strangestbluerose]

I don't know if I can really take advice from you about what's dangerous and what isn't.

[a_real_girl]

We can't die when we're here is all I'm saying and typically mundanes don't play out fighting in this place.

So she's not getting hurt or being chased.

[strangestbluerose]

[A very small breath of relief.] That's good. But I still need to find her.

[a_real_girl]

She'll show up eventually, she usually does when she sees one of you around.

[strangestbluerose]

...you seem to know a lot about this place.

[a_real_girl]

My mundane tells me a lot and I pay attention.

[strangestbluerose]

So it isn't that you've been here a long time, then. [Don't ask but for some reason that relieves him, too.]

[a_real_girl]

Yeah, there are people who have been here way longer than me.

[strangestbluerose]

...[Awkward shuffle.] So is being 'real' everything you hoped it would be.

[a_real_girl]

Yeah!

I get to talk to people, eat real food and it's just like I imagined.

[strangestbluerose]

Will you grow old, too?

[a_real_girl]

I don't know, probably.

[strangestbluerose]

[Musing-] I wonder what you would look like all grown up.

[a_real_girl]

Now I wonder too. Maybe my mundane will make me older for an event or something.

They can do that you know.

[strangestbluerose]

Sounds like they can do anything they please. [Grumbling.]

[a_real_girl]

Yeah we can't really change what they do.

[strangestbluerose]

[Sigh] It really is worse than the museum.

[a_real_girl]

I don't know, I mean there are a lot of nice people here and not many of them are out to kill every living person.

[strangestbluerose]

[Frayed nerves. He can't help it.] You would know a lot about that.

[a_real_girl]

I also know what it's like to be trapped forever without being around people. I only knew what being with a family was like because of books, I only knew what a real conversation was like because of books.

[strangestbluerose]

You can't just say that and expect me to forgive you for everything you did! You nearly killed Ib and I!

[a_real_girl]

and you would of left me locked up in the museum forever. You wouldn't stay by yourself or bring another human for me to replace.

[strangestbluerose]

You don't know that!

[a_real_girl]

Would you stay there forever so I could be free? Would you send someone else to die to free me?

[strangestbluerose]

What does it matter if I say yes now? After everything's already happened?!

[a_real_girl]

Because I don't think you're being honest with me!

[strangestbluerose]

It doesn't matter now. You attacked the both of us. Maybe if you'd just been honest with us things could have been different.

[a_real_girl]

But that's my question! Would it be different?

[strangestbluerose]

....Yes! My answer is yes! [Watching carefully]

[a_real_girl]

You....

You would of done something to help me?

[She was not expecting that and suddenly all her anger seemed to disappear with this surprise.]

[strangestbluerose]

I didn't want you to be stuck any more than I wanted Ib to be stuck when I first met you. If you had just told us the truth we would have tried to find a way to make it work. [He stands by that this is what would have happened.]