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[goblinemperor]

[ Maia is unfamiliar with advanced technology, so he checks and double-checks and triple-checks to make sure the message he is posting will not bear his name, before he asks: ]

What would you do with your freedom, if you had it for the first time in your life and never learned how to use it?

[ The question is awkwardly phrased, true, but he really is pretty desperate for advice. One way and another, he's been pent up and under supervision since he was born, and now he doesn't really know how else to be. ]

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[mutant_messiah]

You do whatever you want, no matter the simplicity of the action.

[goblinemperor]

But what if I do not want the right things? Some of what I want is impossible, and the rest... I wouldn't know how to pursue it, even if I were bolder.

[mutant_messiah]

Right and wrong are more of a gray area than you think..at least to me. So long as you don't want to go around killing anyone, I don't tend to care.

I'd ask what, but I get the feeling you won't want to say.

[goblinemperor]

That is true, in some cases. It can be difficult to judge, the good or bad that may come of your actions.

[ He thinks for a moment before adding: ]

I do not mind speaking of it in this manner, with my identity disguised. I can assure you I would not wish to kill anyone or do any harm. The impossible things I spoke of involve people I love who died long ago, and even in a place as fantastical as this, surely nothing can be done to see them once more.

The rest... I would wish to seek companionship. To have friends. A lover. To learn everything I was never taught, about science, and art, and music...

[mutant_messiah]

There are places here that will teach you most of that. Even people. if you're willing to put yourself out there and admit you want to learn.

[A follow-up text:] Not trying to get your hopes up, but I've seen a lot in my life. Changed a lot in the lives of others. Had people that should have stayed dead come back. You might get lucky. If you don't, there seems to be pretty decent people here. They can't replace your lost loved ones, but the right ones won't try to.

[goblinemperor]

Yes, it is admitting my own ignorance that has proved an impediment thus far.

What you speak of makes no sense. The dead cannot return.

[ That's just one of those rules that has GOT to be a constant in all universes, right? Maia can't even begin to imagine anything else. And he certainly isn't going to let himself even think about what it would be like, to see his mother again. It's impossible. He had accepted that years ago... ]