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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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I do what I can. I don't like things to be.. over blown, myself.

And how often do you manage avoid overblown situations?

As often as I can possibly manage. I've had enough of them, lately. I could stand with a few years respite.

Then I hope you're given the time you want. It sounds as if you deserve it.

We'll see. I could be called to go back to my version of Earth tomorrow, after all.

Which wouldn't be all bad, but I would miss a proper bed.

You don't have a proper bed back home??

I do have a bed it's just.. not nearly as large or comfortable. Not much is available in the way of luxury or comfort anymore, considering it's a nuclear wasteland. But there are people who have less, so..

Knowing the state of your world back home...what would convince you to return to that?

I still have people there waiting for me.

I'll go back, eventually. But I don't think some time to.. sort myself out is all that terrible, either.

No, I don't think so either. What do you spend your time doing here? Or what will you do until you return?

Working. Occasionally out for a drink and some food with someone I've met along the way. Mostly.. the mundane things I used to do when I lived in the dome.

What I'll do .. well, I'm not sure. I'm trying not to plan it so stringently.

Well, if you're interested in company for drinks here, let me know. Could always use new friends willing to kill an hour or two with a good cocktail or beer.

I'll keep it in mind for the next time I'm feeling like a drink.

Please do. I'll save you a stool. First round is on me.

Have a drink of choice?

I prefer red wines, but when push comes to shove I'll drink just about anything.

There's a little hole in the wall a few blocks down from the communal housing. It serves these crazy layered shots that are incredible.

Think you'd try one or two of those too?

I think I'v had those before but not.. here.

I remember liking them.

Then we'll have to remedy that for sure. Maybe in a day or two I'll kidnap you to the bar with some of my friends?

How many friends are we talking?

Besides you and me? Two or three, max. Unless you're not one for groups in which case we can head out ourselves, no third or fourth wheel.

I'm not a fan of many new people in one swoop, honestly.

But it won't kill me, either.

They may not be new people. I don't know who you know, after all. [And the reverse may be true.] Do you know Taako? Thor? Jim and Leonard?

[They were the people she'd been thinking of offhand. Maybe Loki if Thor or Taako wanted to invite him along.]

I know 3/4's of those people, actually. The only new one is Taako.

So then there you go, only one new person, not a group of them :)

I don't know if it's necessarily fair to the rest for Jim and I to drink together in a group, though.

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