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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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[goblinemperor]

I am very sorry to hear that. I hope that, whatever realm they or their spirits are in, that they are comfortable, and at peace.

That is... a wonder. The technology in this place is entirely unfamiliar to me. Even this device we are using to communicate. I am more accustomed to- to letters sent by messenger. I have not used my seal since I arrived. I believe you, when you say there were machines which pulled you back from death. I am glad of it.

[ Billy seems like a good person, after all, and Maia knew all too well that good people didn't always get saved. So it gives him hope, that this time, it went right. ]

Then your life here is a second chance. To live as you could not, before.

[billyrocks]

[Billy is surprised by the sentiment, mainly because he hasn't heard a lot of people wish that for his parents. Then again, he didn't really give them a chance with how he tried to avoid the subject of his past.]

Thank you.

[Is all he can say since he's not sure what else he could say.]

We didn't have a lot of this technology where I'm from either. I couldn't even write letters back home since I didn't know how to write until learning here.

[He wants to ask about the seal, but he'll save that question for another time. When a person has a seal, though, he's aware that tends to mean they are important in some way.]

It could be a second chance for you too, you know. You could learn how to use the new freedom you've been given. I'll do my best to help you, but it all comes down to how you choose to use it. There's no one here to order you around on how to live your life.

[goblinemperor]

[ That interests Maia - and, honestly, is a little inspiring. He thinks, if this man could come here and learn to write, how much could Maia learn? There are still so many gaps in his education. Perhaps he could find tutors, maybe even attend the university... ]

Thank you. I can only hope that I will choose wisely, and that in time I will become accustomed to the lack of constraint.

[billyrocks]

I hope you'll eventually find the lack of constraint more exciting than frightening.

If you want to find me, I'm at Buttercup Farms most of the time since I work there. You're welcome to contact me through text, too, but I'm more used to talking to people in person.

[Oh, he almost forgot...]

And my name is Billy Rocks.

[goblinemperor]

Thank you.

My name is Maia.

[ And, well, that is one little adjustment he has chosen - to go by his given name, rather than his dynastic one. ]