[Voice]

[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.

Comments

[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.

[private]

[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.

[private]

[yourhatred]

Similar to my situation, then.

Curious, their choices.

[private]

[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.

[private]

[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.

[private]

[yourhatred]

Have you been here many?

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

It will be... [He pauses to consider, has it truly been so long...?] three years this summer.

[private]

[yourhatred]

...A long time. Somewhat longer than my own time spent here.

My three year date should come sometime in the fall.

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

I didn't realize. [But if they're both seemingly the types to keep to themselves, this would make sense...] The time passes disturbingly fast.

[private]

[yourhatred]

Yes. It does.

[Both here and in the world he came from.]

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

But... nothing can be done to alter that.

[He's often wondered what might happen if he's stuck here for years and years beyond most people's lifespans... he has too much time on his hands to think, unfortunately.]

[private]

[yourhatred]

Nothing that anyone knows of, no.

It's a particularly dismal subject.

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

Unfortunately so... but that is our fate, for the foreseeable future.

[private]

[yourhatred]

Perhaps I should wish you luck on this future, then.

[private]

[thenightmarebegins]

Likewise, for yours.

[It's always worth speaking to someone reasonable, in this place... a potential ally in any circumstances that call for it.]