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[Justin, unaffected by the cold induced by sitting near the fountain that the City had seen fit to drop him into during winter, finally tires of waiting for what he’s convinced what must be a trick of the mind to dissipate and resolve itself into the nothingness of death. For a lack of any other distractions, he fumbles with the device he had found in his pocket earlier.
He doesn’t fully understand why he would bother hallucinating what resembles a camcorder. The brain is truly a strange and unfathomable thing.]
Am I dead yet?
[It’s a ridiculous question. He still exists enough to imagine things; the answer is clearly no.]
If not--if not, I hope this doesn't last long.
He doesn’t fully understand why he would bother hallucinating what resembles a camcorder. The brain is truly a strange and unfathomable thing.]
Am I dead yet?
[It’s a ridiculous question. He still exists enough to imagine things; the answer is clearly no.]
If not--if not, I hope this doesn't last long.
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[His initial surprise and alarm has given way to blankness. Whatever's going on, nothing Justin does is going to make it go away.]
I'm sorry. Todd. I don't remember.
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[He pauses slightly...]
Has, um-- has it been explained to you? This place?
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That's tiresome.
...More or less. It's real, I may or may not be dead, people disappear and reappear, and some people stay here for a very long time. That's what I know.
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That's not a bad start, though. If you are dead, it-- well, it doesn't really change much about your situation. You can still stay here for a long time. There's also what's called curses; they can change people, or the City, or both, in a lot of different ways. They usually last for a day and then things go back to normal.
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[Todd, you are stretching his suspension of disbelief here.]
None of this makes sense. People are either--they're either living or dead, not... something between the two. Nothing can change something as massive as a city in a day. None of this is possible.
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[He realizes that, but he also realizes it's the sort of thing that becomes hard to argue with once you've been around a week or two.]
Everything here is impossible, usually. Except... well, it isn't. Not here. Just-- well, you'll see.
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There's no way out?
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It really isn't so bad, though. I mean... you can make something of it, being here.
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[It's odd - even though he rationally knows he's essentially a stranger to Justin, he still feels like Justin should just know that. Of course, he doesn't feel comfortable going into details with almost anyone.]
I've been here for almost three years now. I have friends, a job... a lot that wasn't possible back home. As far as I'm concerned, this is my home.
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Would you leave, given the chance?
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[No hesitation there. He didn't even need to think about it.]
My best friend is here. He's... not, at home. Not anymore.
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[Not really. Kind of. Maybe.]
I suppose the City is a second chance for you, too.
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Todd. How well did you know me?
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But you were here for a long time, and-- well, you'd done a lot here. I don't want to say that it made up for it, exactly, because that would be sort of... well, putting a value on life I'm not really comfortable doing, but...
You took your second chance and made something of it.
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[somewhat anxiously] Everyone who knew me before is talking about someone else.
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Is that enough?
What if I don't want to be at all?
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Things can be different here. Maybe... after a while, you won't feel that way anymore.
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[He doesn't believe it for a second, but Todd sounds sincere--too sincere to argue with.]
Thank you, Todd.