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[omnicrafter]

"In your darkest hour, in the blackest night... think of me, and I will be with you. Always. For where else could I go? Who else could I love but you?"

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[menphina]

Did he conveniently forget that time for you lot isn't going to be moving anyway?
All he's done is kept you here indefinitely, without any chance of your time progressing without you.
Elidibus can't do shite if there's no time to move himself into.
Unless that was part of his deal... to keep time moving without you in your world.
Even after all these moons, I can't understand him.
What did you say to him?

[omnicrafter]

Maybe that was the whole point, to keep us here without time moving.

I told him initially he doesn't get to inflict the same misery onto us, just because he'll never see his home again. But the way he explained it almost sounded more like it had nothing to do with Elidibus. Like he just wanted us here where he could... I don't know. Keep an eye on us. Or keep us from dying, as he tried to spin it.

I still don't know if I should believe him or not.

[menphina]

Elidibus is a shite excuse. For someone who doesn't lie, he knows how to bend his truth.
I think he's holding onto you all because you all mean something to him in a way that he'll never, ever have again once you leave.
Otherwise, why would it just be you three?
When he says all of our kind are fragmented and incomplete?

[ As much as she disagrees with what he did, she has a feeling this is where it's coming from. ]

How are you feeling?
I know you Warriors of Light like to act big and tough, but
It's not good to keep it in, aye?

[omnicrafter]

That was my thought, as well. He doesn't want to admit it... and I suppose neither do we, for various reasons. It is intrinsically complicated in ways I can't put in words.

Well... I know, but I've been away from my world for probably close to two years now, even if not all those moons have been spent here. I'm upset, of course I am, but I have to start thinking of a potential bargaining chip we might be able to use with the Creator, one that can even overpower his. It will pass with time.

[menphina]

Suppose you'd know best.
The Exarch and I are just the observers here.
I'm more concerned with any other Warriors of Light that show up here, though.
Would this apply to them as well?
Or was it just you three?
It just feels like a waste all the same.

Give your mind some peace, though, lass.
Think you've already been through enough.
You're not going to be able to think of anything when you're stressed.
Where've you even been, anyroad?

[omnicrafter]

I assume so, though I hope for their sakes they aren't caught in the web, however this system of taking in people works.

Ah, around, I suppose. I've stayed in the past few days, though as to the moons I have not seen you, I've just been doing what I can to keep my hands busy. Crafting or otherwise, as necessary.

I've always been torn about going home if the cost was all of my memories of the places I've been. I don't want to lose them, but I want to return, too... I've yet to decide which is the greater loss, but now it feels like a pointless question to ask at all.

[menphina]

Sounds like a rough situation, but I've been away from home for almost over a turn now.
Besides the one time that I felt that I saw it.
These memories, though—
Are you sure you want to carry them all when you return?
Seems like it would be too heavy, even for a Warrior of Light.

[omnicrafter]

You think...? I've always felt that they're defining enough that losing them would be a step backward. Even the bad things. Even things like Fort Harmony, or the various conflicts, or all the compulsory sex.

Is it really that strange?

[menphina]

I'm not sure I want to carry the weight of being imprisoned and miserable with me back home
That's not a burden I want on my husband and tribe, aye?
And thinking of the friends I've lost here to their returns home...
Imagine going home remembering them, knowing there's no chance of ever seeing them again.
It'd be too much.
But I suppose that'd make you stronger, if you can carry those and move forward.
I'd just feel like if I'm trusting a hero, I'd want them to be at peace, too.

[omnicrafter]

I am not so much bothered by the possibility of never seeing them again... I've had plenty such partings in my life. Sometimes, people are simply not meant to meet a second time.

I guess you have a point, though. I just,

I don't think I can remember the last time I was at peace with things here. If ever. But it's not like I can just put it all down and walk away, either.