[VIDEO .001 | username edward.elric]

[alchemyfreak]

[There are a few things Ed is quick to concern himself with upon arrival, and even though they certainly relate to "how the hell do I get back where I came from?" he's seen this play out enough times to know that asking that question directly is never likely to get results. At least not the ones he wants. He's well aware that this change of scenery isn't just some new challenge, because if it was there certainly wouldn't be any point to the mark outright disappearing, but it was gone. Which likely meant one thing, they were telling the truth - at least about one aspect of all this, and he was not in Muir anymore.]

Does anyone have any idea what's really going on here? Has anyone been doing any research on this place? Or been here long enough to know whether or not it is what they claim?

[Ed's skeptical about this whole situation, but cynicism wasn't enough to go on that something just wasn't right here. He had a hard time taking everything in that little introduction at face value.]

If we can just ask to be sent home given enough time, has anyone actually pulled it off?

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[dispenserofjustice]

[Garrus knows that silence. It isn't something he has experienced himself, but he knows it when he sees it. In this case, when he hears it.]

Look, I'm sorry I asked. My temper got the better of me and it's none of my business. Sorry.

[Because no one should be stuck reliving awful memories just because of something he's saying, doing, or asking.]

Changing the subject completely.

[alchemyfreak]

[After a moment there's a deep breath, as if sighed in an attempt to regain control of his breathing.

It wasn't even the worst thing to happen, they'd threatened to turn Nina back into that chimera just to spite him - but it hadn't actually happened. In the end she went home after all, except home for her was simply no longer existing. There were many worse experiences in Purg, but few that hit quite so close to home. That was really all it came down to.

After a moment he responded, quietly as if unable to come up with anything else.]

Sorry...

[dispenserofjustice]

No, don't apologize. This one's on me. I shouldn't have pried so much.

[alchemyfreak]

It's fine...

[Ed's quick to brush it under a rug, both to move on from the disturbing memory and because he honestly was a bit embarrassed at having reacted like that. Time for a shiny new change of subject.]

No one claims to be in charge here, we don't really get brought in by someone intentionally, so it's different. Until someone shows up saying they run this place, at least.

[dispenserofjustice]

Personally, I don't know which is worse: to have been brought here by accident or intentionally by some third party.

[Hint: Garrus is glad for the subject change.]

If it had been done by a person, at least you could punch them into sending you back.

[alchemyfreak]

[Ed doesn't want to see this conversation go full circle, so he bites back the response he had in mind at those words. As if it was ever that easy.]

At least if it's an accident, and they're willing to help try to get us back there's a direction to work toward to get home. The first place I was in said we were there for redemption, but no matter how hard anyone worked on their supposed sins.... It had no impact on who got sent home, and who didn't.

[dispenserofjustice]

If they are actually willing. We'd need to know how much they actually have put into studying the phenomenon, right?

[alchemyfreak]

Supposedly some people have already gone back, by choice.

Someone else mentioned that there's a public record of it. That's the first thing I'm looking into.