contemplating distantskies.

[payback]

Hey!

I'm not gonna talk to you about not doing this thing you're thinking about doing, as I know it never works anyhow, but I do have some questions. You know you're having trouble thinking of just one animal soul dangling thingy for me to settle down as, well, you know, that makes perfect sense! Because being one thing forever is the thing that doesn't make any sense, I think.

I mean it's not like people just stop changing from being what they are after they hit twenty years, or fifteen years, or any number of years! That sounds depressing, in my opinion. And what about people who have a lot of different things going on inside them at once? They're complicated! Boiling that down into just one thing is tough. I'm surprised anybody manages to do it for anyone at all.

Hmm, it sounds like an interesting kind of place, though... but honestly I think I'd take a daemon, or whatever, over you messing with how things are at home. If you have to take me out someplace, can't you at least leave Edo alone?

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[jurisimpudent]

Would you sooner never be able to return?

[payback]

Well, assuming this all goes well, I know I'll wanna go home. But it might not be so good if people from other worlds start coming. And even worse if stuff starts coming through.

[whatsupcroc]

I'd say yes, buuuut these are players! They've got crazy ideas of their own about what they can or can't play around with.

[ Dramatic eyeroll -- and a grin. ]

So you might be coming this way?

[payback]

Yeah, maybe. And I don't think it would be so bad but probably the best thing for home would be if I just said "nope!" to all of it and went right back.

[whatsupcroc]

You can totally do that! I mean, it's probably even the smart thing to do, if your window's open right then. It gets harder when it isn't.

[payback]

See, she's thinking about pulling strings so I won't want to go right home even if it is open... and then I might end up causing big problems for a lot of people! It's unfair.

[jurisimpudent]

Do try to be precise in your language. "Stuff"?

[ex_witchiest447]

But don't you want a pet, at least?

[payback]

Wow, exCUSE me. Stuff like guns! Don't you people have all kinds of advanced weapons?

[payback]

I can get a pet that isn't ripped right out of my soul.

[jurisimpudent]

I do not and would not ever carry such a weapon. I do not know of anyone else who possesses one either.

[ex_witchiest447]

You mean 'boring'?

[whatsupcroc]

[ Collette knows a thing or nineteen about unfair, which comes across as a smile and a sort of shrug. ]

They're pretty big on the pulling strings and hush-hush not telling us what's going on in the meantime. So... what're you going to do about it?

[payback]

I'm just worried, because it's not like they're just going to let us go home and leave us alone afterward, right?

[payback]

I guess if you're easily bored.

[payback]

I don't know... other than take advantage of it when I think I can, and try to clean up any messes that come out of doing that.

[jurisimpudent]

Well, there will be an animal whom you cannot separate from yourself following you around at all times and quite possibly reporting back to whoever created it in the first place.

[payback]

But doesn't that make you wonder what they'd be reporting and why they'd even bother?

[jurisimpudent]

Of course I "wonder." What of it?

[payback]

Well what if it's something really bad? What if you should just have told them to go to hell? What if it causes problems for other people later?

[jurisimpudent]

Do you always waste so much time in idle speculation? What if, what if, what if. What if they're lizard-people inside suits of human skin? What if it's all a dream? What of it?

[payback]

If they're lizard-people inside suits of human skin I hope one of them bites you.

[jurisimpudent]

Frankly, so do I, because then at least we would be getting somewhere. We'd have evidence, rather than the pointless ravings of a young woman who should see a psychologist for what may well be an anxiety disorder.

[ex_witchiest447]

No, no. I just know good entertainment when I see it.

[payback]

If you don't wonder what their motivations might be beyond just nicely setting people back in their homes I think you're stupid or way too naive about how people are sometimes or maybe both, but I hope for the sake of the people from your world who have nothing to do with you and your dumb frills that you are right, and that you aren't ruining all your lives while you go gadding around or doing whatever dumb thing you like to do when you aren't annoying people being dumb talking to them.