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Bryn Zethir ([personal profile] inlaid) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-09-11 10:26 pm

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So tell me something.

If someone wants to go home the people in charge here will do their best to get the portal aligned so they can do just that. At the same time, there's no guarantee they'll ever manage that that someone. Which means that a person waiting for a chance to go home could end up waiting not just for weeks or months but years. Maybe even the rest of their blighted life.

Knowing this, do you think it's better to hold back putting down roots just to make it easier to get up and go if the time comes? Even if it means you may be living your life among the people but distinctly separate from them as they build their lives here?

Or is it stupid to waste time, to waste your life and potential happiness on the off chance that one day you may get to return home one day?


[Is she just being stubborn because she won't be a Council Agent anymore if she doesn't return home, or because it feels like she's selling out for an easier lifestyle and having magic at long last? Her pride and sense of honor stings at the thought. The idea of never seeing her family again, of trading them up these things makes her taste ashes in her mouth. Then again she doesn't really have a choice in the matter right now anyway. She's not actually giving anything up at this point.

Really, the more she thinks about it, the more she's coming to realize that no matter what happens, she's going to have to make sacrifices of one sort or another.]


If any has an opinion or any insight I'd appreciate it.

[There's only so long she can sit on this fence before she drives herself even crazier than she feels now.]
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-09-27 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
And forcing an epiphany does no one any good.

[the urge to give a fake name is RIGHT THERE. but he resists. he's getting better.]

Cassian. What should I call you then?
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-10-03 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[well that sure makes him wary!!]

I have never been here before.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-10-15 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
You are saying there have been two other versions of me here? And you met them both?

[he is grateful this stranger doesn't know much more about him - but it does make him worry about other strangers now.]

I would apologize for a third meeting, but it is not the case for me.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-10-16 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
I would like to know what happened that first time. In person is preferred. Perhaps in the next few days?

[yeeeeah being able to read tone and body language! he's not too concerned about a dangerous meet up in this. he just wants to know what she might already know about him, and he thinks face to face would tell him more.]
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-10-18 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
That's very accommodating. You cannot be that free.

Tomorrow or the day after may work.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-10-27 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Are you on the guard, or do you just go beyond it?

Afternoon. There is a park that may work well, near communal housing.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-10-27 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
As am I.

[that's not really a secret.]

Yes, that one. It's quieter, without being isolated. Does that all work for you?
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-11-04 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I will see you tomorrow.

[will he get there early?? probably.]
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-11-06 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[cassian definitely got there first, though only by about ten minutes. it's not like he's expecting anything terrible to happen, but old habits and all that.]

[he sees a woman approaching, knowing it must be bryn the moment she waves and finding it disconcerting to be recognized. he doesn't wave back, but he does nod.]


Good afternoon. Shopping?
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-11-10 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[he steals a cursory glance at the bag, then looks back up to her.]

It means nothing so far. [he doesn't say it particularly meanly, just sort of dryly.] I will pass for now, thank you.

[it feels too weird to accept food from a woman he's never seen who claims to know him.]
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-11-16 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[it...sounds like something he might do. he would notice a tail, he would plan something similar. it doesn't make it any less uncomfortable to think about this woman knowing him, but it does at least add a little bit of credence to the idea that he may have been here before. none of that really shows in his face, of course.]

Do you know why they were they following you? [it may be too much of a personal question, but it could still get him more of the picture. more of her thoughts on him.]
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-11-21 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
And what kind of questions were those?

[she might answer him, she might not. he's still getting a feel for it, putting together more of the pieces.]

Who was it tailing you?
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-12-01 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[he absolutely does not miss the way she ignores his first question about questions. if it can work his curiosity back into the conversation he will, but he supposes there's always later. it does make him wonder what sort of red flags could be raised, especially in the private sector. how would that information on her arrival have gotten out?]

Did you speak to this... other me after that encounter? [she said she'd only really known him superficially, but that can still carry on outside one single meeting.]

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