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[fireandhoney]

[Finn is looking rather morose at the moment, laying in bed all by his lonesome, his cat cuddled up to his shoulder, like she means to comfort him.]

So Jonathan Walsh is gone. One of the many who ported out recently.

[He takes a moment to gather himself, sighing sadly.]

I mean, we knew this was likely to happen when we got together. We knew that this wasn't going to last forever, and the day would probably come when one or both of us ported out. Still, it stings, not having him here. Next month would have been our two year anniversary.

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[ video ] » ID: Wanda Maximoff

[divaricate]

[ Wanda's expression is one of both sympathy and empathy — she knows this feeling too well. ]

I'm sorry. I know how that is; I got married last year, and he's been ported out for almost three months now. Were you two at least from the same world?

[ Not that that would mean they would remember their time here, but ... still some hope, perhaps. ]

[fireandhoney]

Sadly, no.

[He would have loved to take Jonathan back to Tamriel, or even go back to his version of Earth.]

We weren't married, but we may as well have been.

[divaricate]

After two years in a place like this, I can easily understand how. I know that nothing anywhere is forever, but, it really is like this place cuts us less slack for trying to live in such an unstable world.

[fireandhoney]

It doesn't even really help knowing that when I inevitably go home, I won't remember him, and thus won't remember all the good times or the loss.

[He'll probably go home and get married one day without ever knowing that he'd loved Jonathan.]

[divaricate]

And that dilemma of wondering if being left behind is the lucky part because you get to remember all the good, or of it's luckier to have gone and forgotten everything like it never happened. Or knowing you getting left behind means that at least they're spared being in your spot now.

[ internal sighing, really. ]

I'm pretty sure the list is easily a hundred thousand million bazillion things long, but tell me something you did love about him? If you want.

[ It's something to find to smile about after all. ]

[fireandhoney]

Well, I loved how funny he could be, and how he cared about others. He had a shady past, but he was making up for it, and I admired that about him.

[divaricate]

Sounds like a good, interesting person. [ And she means it. ]

Hopefully that doesn't make those of us left here the questionable, bland ones.

[ A small joke with an equally small smirk. ]

[fireandhoney]

[A small chuckle.]

Perish the thought.

[divaricate]

Someone had to say it. I figure why not take one for the team and be the one to do it?

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[by_candlelight]

Oh. I'm sorry Finn. It seems like so many people are going away now. I'm sorry that of all the people who went, he was among them.

[ There is sympathy there, and not just performative. She means it. ]

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[fireandhoney]

Thank you, Ruby. I've seen friends go home before, and every time it did I missed them, but then suddenly someone you loved is gone and it feels... harder.

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[by_candlelight]

I can only imagine. [ She's still pretty sure she doesn't feel love, whoops. ] Maybe he'll be coming back soon. There are a lot of people leaving, and last time that happened a bunch of us were sent to another world.

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[fireandhoney]

Perhaps. You know, it's funny, but Jonathan and I were together in that world too. He left me when I went all evil, but he still gave me a chance when I told him that I was from another world and wanted to help him.

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[by_candlelight]

Maybe one of these days you'll wake up with memories of yet another world and he'll be back, and you can talk about how the multiverse seems to want you two to know each other.

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[fireandhoney]

One can only hope so. Still, we had a good run together, and I'll always cherish the time we had with each other.