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[divaricate]

So, while it's Halloween and we're probably all in a spooky mood, and with alternate realities on the mind, here's spooky food for thought. Or candy for thought, I guess, given the holiday — whatever, work with me here.

Is anyone else who doesn't have any really clear memories of what was apparently our last trip to alternate reality town, okay with *not* opening that box of worms ... or is it just me?

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[moonlitpath]

I don't think it's just you.

I don't have memories of it, and that's fine. I don't really think I want to know what happened there, either.

[divaricate]

In a way, I think that makes us lucky. Good to know I'm not the only one here who's in that camp. Sometimes feeling like the blanks need to be filled in is just, I don't know, a little much? Or maybe that's just having been here for almost five years talking.

[moonlitpath]

It could be both talking? I know there are things I wish I didn't know but I do.

Plus, five years in another world is a really long time so I don't think anyone should blame you for feeling this way.

[kraythero]

I'm not sure honestly. I think I'd want to know and it bothers me to have a gap in my memory. But I'm not sure what I can do about it. I've been mediating but. Nothing.

[divaricate]

I know there's a few telepathics in town if you're really itching to know, they might be able to help.

[ she's one of them, but uhhh? ]

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[kraythero]

Jedi aren't quite telepathic but we have some similar abilities. I'd rather not have a stranger try.

[ Or even one who was known - too many trust issues THANK YOU PALPATINE. ]

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[divaricate]

That's fair! Trusting people with that is a lot, since minds are weird things, and sensitive, in way more ways than one. Not to mention, since the game of this world is "keep your sanity as long as you can as best you can"... well.

[kraythero]

I'd trust my wife, but she isn't telepathic. She's here, with me, so I don't actually find this place all that terrible? I mean. It's weird, for sure. But coming from an intergalactic civil war? It's not that bad.

[divaricate]

[ This is why her responses are text. No one needs to hear the shakiness of her voice, or see the depressed as hell look in her eyes. ]

Oh, good! I'm glad you have someone like that here; it makes this place easier for sure, because it is a hell of a world here.

[ And she does mean the first part especially, even if it's something she's desperately missing for herself right now. ]

My home universe is also in that vein of shitty, so I know that feeling too. There was someone here not from my home universe, we were together for over a year, married for six months before he ported out a few days ago, so I guess all this is me making a bad attempt at trying to not be cynical as hell about this world too — again.

[kraythero]

Oh.

[ His voice grows quiet, and strangely understanding. ]

I'm sorry. Back home Padmé and I can't be open about our relationship, and it's forbidden for Jedi to marry. Sometimes we go months without seeing each other and weeks without being able to speak. It's hell, worse than any sandstorm Tatooine might dream up. I honestly don't know what I'd do if I lost her.

Do you want to talk about him? Sometimes it helps.

[ Something he'd learned, from slavery ripping families apart. ]

[divaricate]

It's probably not the best thing for an assistant district attorney in Heropa to say, but good for you guys telling those rules to go screw themselves — even having to do it in secret, and caring that much for each other. I'm extra glad you have something lightyears more freeing here, and hopefully it lasts for a long time.

If I start talking I might not stop, heh.

[kraythero]

Honestly, some laws are just wrong. I grew up in a sector where slavery is still legal, and worse. And maybe I shouldn't be saying it to the assistant district attorney either, but if that was the case here, I'd be helping to burn that system down here.

[ He does mean that too. ]

It's ok if you didn't. Remembering people keeps them alive.

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[bifroster]

I have to admit I want more information about all of it, what happened and how everyone was affected. But I'll make sure not to bring it up around you or anyone else who'd rather leave it alone.