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[thenightmarebegins]

A chance to return...

[A pause, along with the sound of water rushing behind him. Vincent has been coming to the Battle Dome ever since that announcement to go to the simulation of the place he wants to truly return to.]

I cannot help but still wonder what price will be paid for such a chance... and whether it's worth the potential risk.

[Not to himself, of course, but to the people and worlds involved.]

I suppose only time will tell for certain.

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[yourhatred]

But they know that many will go. Even if they will return having forgotten any influence they likely didn't have. Because any opportunity is better than none.

[He probably would, were it an option.]

Do you have the choice available to you?

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

I have the choice... and I intend to travel to my world. I have reasons worth returning for.

[Although on some level he's aware that there's nothing he can do, but be there in her presence.]

Have you made your decision on the matter?

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[yourhatred]

Unfortunately, I do not have the option to return to my own.

Whether I want to or not is irrelevant.

[Unless he was to literally be the walking dead, a thought that's more ironic than he realizes.]

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

There are many here who share that fate.

[Some of them he's known have since returned to their death, some have remained...]

Would you take the eventual chance at another life one day, even if it meant leaving behind your home?

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[yourhatred]

I've been here for a good year and a half. Would this not be something I've already done?

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

If you would consider that enough time to move on.

[Right. So... perhaps his own perspective on spans of time is off in some ways.]

[private]

[yourhatred]

Moving on...

I'm not sure I can claim that yet. And circumstances don't entirely allow it.

[Certain other inhabitants, for example.]

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

The experiments...?

[Not that he's going to pry, but he does wonder sometimes if others get the past shoved at them as much as he seems to.]

[private]

[yourhatred]

Among other things.

[And Itachi won't be quick to offer answers either.]

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

I understand. The nature of this place has considerable influence over many aspects of our lives...

[He realizes it in himself, even without the experiments he doubts he'd be "moved on" at all from the past.]

[private]

[yourhatred]

I apologize. I knew this conversation could lead to sensitive subjects, yet I began it anyway.

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

It's fine... and everything that has been said will be kept private.

[private]

[yourhatred]

I haven't really shared anything not already known by those familiar with me. But I appreciate it all the same.

I am Itachi, by the way. Itachi Uchiha.

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

I'm Vincent Valentine.

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[yourhatred]

Would it be prying too much to ask if you have any connections to other villagers here, Mr. Valentine?

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

There are people here from my world... and some who have been here and since left.

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[yourhatred]

Similar to my situation, then.

Curious, their choices.

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[thenightmarebegins]

Yes... and there is no apparent reason for them.

[That they can see. But the way that the experiments are often so random, he has to wonder if it simply is that random, for people getting pulled in and sent away.]

[private] wow I thought I responded to this

[yourhatred]

No reason, perhaps. Though... many seem oddly connected.

[private] not a problem! losing track happens XD

[thenightmarebegins]

At times, connected people arrive together, or in waves... but there's no indication why it happens with some, and not others.

[Some people have been here for a very long time with no one, while some have a lot of homeworld people...]

[private]

[yourhatred]

Unfortunate but true. Aside from some of the connected people having ties to one or more single individuals, any reason I can think of is weak at best.

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

There's still a great deal we don't understand about their motives.

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[yourhatred]

A fact that isn't likely to change any time soon, I'm afraid.

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

After all of these years... it's very doubtful.

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[yourhatred]

Have you been here many?