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[d33tached]

Given what you've experienced in this world, would you return to your own if given the choice?

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[d33tached]

You mean to tell me that you were given the opportunity to live again with positively no strings attached?

[And you rejected it???]

[fehus]

yeah?

[d33tached]

You truly are a fool, then.

[Sorry, Magnus. He's in a shitty mood.]

[fehus]

i guess it's hard to understand from the other side of the veil. but death was better for me than life was.

what are you asking for? about going home.

[d33tached]

["Death" is, above all things, a dirty word for D33. Though, he can perhaps wrap his mind around the idea of a different world being better than the one which he was born into.]

I am simply curious to know.

Despite what might appear to be the obvious answer, the responses which I have received have been quite varied.

[fehus]

[he doesn't really need to ask D33 if he'd return home; of course he wouldn't. of course he shouldn't. does he feel conflicted about that, maybe?]

the people here are quite varied.

what's most interesting?

[d33tached]

I suppose that would lend to the phenomenon, yes.

I suppose it would be those that would prefer to stay in this world that I find the most interesting. [Despite his being a part of that population.] Given the fact that most if not all of us were taken unwillingly from our worlds, I might have expected a greater number of people to desire a return.

[fehus]

i'm not that surprised. there's a lot of trouble in a lot of worlds.

[d33tached]

That fact does not leave this world without its own.

[fehus]

to be honest? the only thing i'm worried about here is the fact that the Porter can move literal gods, that i can't pop into the afterlife to see how the end of the nine worlds is coming along, and some of the gods from my universe getting dumped here with us.

[d33tached]

[Okay, but???]

Pardon me, Magnus, but all of those which you've mentioned to appear to be rather large concerns.

[fehus]

"rather large concerns" would be the name of my autobiography.

but they're all hypotheticals here which downgrades them from the non-hypothetical rather large concerns i'm dealing with at home so. i got this.

[d33tached]

Yes, well. I suppose you are correct on that front.

[Whether or not he's "got this", D33 can't be quite sure - and that goes for any one of them.]

I suppose that in the event one of these concerns should come to light, you would have a great deal of other ImPorts to assist you in the matter.

[Not him. "Heroes", as it were.]

[fehus]

what makes you say that?

[d33tached]

As far as I've noticed, the ImPort population does tend to react to such events as they happen.

Events that might compare to that of a malevolent God making its way through the Porter.

At least, that would be my assumption.

[Not his God, though. His is far more insidious. His would go unnoticed, D33 is certain. For his, in all outward appearances, is a mere man.

[But he tries his best not to think about that sort of thing.]