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!INBOX // EUDIO.
    ( AUTOMATED MESSAGE ) jem here. leave a message, ta. [ text | email | voicemail | videochat | visit ] |
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[That's a surprising announcement from her, because he sees so much of her pain. They have fun too, of course, but it seems like she's got as many internal struggles in Eudio as she did external ones in her old life. It really does make him smile to hear that.]
Are you? Good. You should be happy.
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[It's easier to see Roarton for what it is too, now that she's been away. Everyone's out of their goddamn minds. ]
'Sides. I've got you to bother and a demon who let's me sleep on him.
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[He knows it was a joke, the whole statement, but he still wants to say that. In case it was nudging close to what she feared was the truth, and the joke was a way of checking.]
I got a lot here too. More than I expected to get when I left my world. [He breathes slowly in, then out, like he's really processing that thought.] A lot more.
[He's not saying he's happy, though, not in so many words.]
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Very softly, voice above a whisper: ] Can I tell you something?
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[He looks up at her more closely, shifting like he's ready to prop himself up if she needs him more upright and ready to hold her.]
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[And she doesn't sound sad about that. She doesn't sound uncertain about it at all. ]
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I've heard people talking about it. I gotta know my deal worked out and didn't just end with something worse, but if it did - I'd do it too. If Cassie stayed. I'm not gonna be any more used to the world I'm going back to than this place, and I learned here. I don't wanna start over again with new rules and new shit to adjust to.
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I miss mum and dad but that's it. Everything's just easier here. Nobody wants to hurt Kieren, nobody's tryin' to start a second rising.
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You talked to them about it? Staying?
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Nothing about Eudio is forever. Not Petre, not Cole - sometimes, she's worried that even her being happy won't be forever either. With Roarton, it hardly seems possible. ]
No, [she says at last. ] People are gonna leave here eventually. Imagine what that'd be like? Staying and everyone you care about leaving? [She heaves a sigh. ] Roarton's - a nightmare, except you can't wake up from it. And this is like a long dream that I'm gonna have to wake up from eventually.
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Why stay there? It's not too much to ask they set you and Kieren up somewhere else. Not a whole other world, you can still talk to your family, but - out of that town. The way you talk about it...
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He's not from the same bit of time as me. I'm - from just after his friends funeral. He decided to stay in Roarton; that it needed someone trying to change it.
[Jem's not that optimistic about it.]
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[He doesn't exactly know much about the position from experience, how a good or good one shouldn't be, but Jem's his model in that absence of knowledge. Quite firmly placed.
With a little sigh, he settles back against the headboard, letting his eyes slip shut.]
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She says nothing, resting comfortably against his chest. Her own eyes fall shut, too and she breathes in tandem with Cole. ]
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