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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]

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... ]