Imagine you had a dream of something really awful happening, and you woke up and found out it was true, because it was some kind of vision, and the next few days made it seem like it would happen again. Then imagine that you had a dream that was almost exactly the same just a few days later. Wouldn't you be unsure about whether or not it was real?
Ohh...[That somehow makes more sense.] I guess so, yeah. Because then it's more like a memory than a dream. Remembering something you've seen before, but with different people there.
[There's a long moment like they'll say something profound.]
But why? [They're still on their back staring at the sky. If Emma looks down, she'll still see a black void where their face should be. The hood is large.] I get that the worlds all have different ideas and stuff but the order of things doesn't always make sense.
Why certain worlds are affected by stuff and others aren't. That's the thing I'll never really understand. What really causes those worlds to have the potential? Why were your worlds the ones this universe contacted to bring you all here?
...not that I expect you to have answers, but it's stuff I wonder. Why dreams as a punishment instead of something else? Why...her? [Her, of course, being Mary.]
...there are some places where there's a lot of worlds lost because of the darkness. So I think that makes the most sense, but even after that, the universe will want it to balance.
Uh huh. It's possible to get them back but I'd rather not lose them in the first place. That's why finding a way to guide and grow the core is so important.
Right before? I was working at a coffee shop to put myself through community college. It wasn't that thrilling, but... Definitely better than what came after.
[Boring as it is, Sol seems to be hanging on to her every single word.]
...it doesn't sound so bad either, actually. I didn't have a job like that, but college wasn't really a thing either. [Sol is not going to ask what college actually is. They can guess.] And the after...was the aliens.
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[She pauses.]
Imagine you had a dream of something really awful happening, and you woke up and found out it was true, because it was some kind of vision, and the next few days made it seem like it would happen again. Then imagine that you had a dream that was almost exactly the same just a few days later. Wouldn't you be unsure about whether or not it was real?
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[There's a long moment like they'll say something profound.]
...the universe kind of sucks.
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If there's one thing I've learned in my lifetime, it's that the universe sucks so much.
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...not that I expect you to have answers, but it's stuff I wonder. Why dreams as a punishment instead of something else? Why...her? [Her, of course, being Mary.]
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Maybe they're just an asshole.
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Entire worlds?
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Well, again, if you ever find a more solid way for me to help...
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Before or after everything went to shit?
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It had it's problems, but... I think it was good, overall.
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...it doesn't sound so bad either, actually. I didn't have a job like that, but college wasn't really a thing either. [Sol is not going to ask what college actually is. They can guess.] And the after...was the aliens.
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[She nods to his second point, though.]
Yeah, that.
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It doesn't sound too different than places I've seen, even with the aliens. But hearing about something a little more average is kinda nice.
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It was nice, before everything went downhill. I spent a lot of time traveling before I went back to school... South America is really beautiful.
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...can you ever go back to that with the way things are now though?
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