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[gallitrap]

[Hey it's that kid who only ever posts every other month, and is usually having some crisis or breakdown. NOT TODAY, APPARENTLY? It's a fucking miracle. Or else something happened and she is just going to be oblique about it, like the classy teenage girl she is.]

[Yep.]

[Also this is audio.]Hypothetical question, about something that probably won

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[incywincyhero]

I guess I'd have a pretty hard decision to make, wouldn't I?

I'd want to spend the day with my fa -- with my friends, anyway.

[gallitrap]

[WITH YOUR FATHER, SPIDEY? HMM.]

A really tough one, I'd think.

Any idea what you'd pick?

[incywincyhero]

I think I'd have to decide who needed me most. Which would depend on who was staying, natch.

Sorry, talk about a cop-out answer, but it's all I've got.

[gallitrap]

No, I don't think it is. Because you're still making a choice, aren't you? Or rather, you've already made a choice.

[incywincyhero]

A choice to not make a choice, sure.

[gallitrap]

No, you made a choice. Following the lead of someone else is still a decision, isn't it? No one's forcing you to, after all. So's picking a direction for the sake of someone else, instead of just what you would prefer.

[incywincyhero]

You may be on to something there.

At least it'd be nice to know I'd remember, and be remembered, no matter whether I ended up staying or going.

[gallitrap]

Yeah. That's usually the one that trips me up, when I think about this. I think I would have to go, if that door opened, but I don't know if I'd be able to. Knowing I'd lose everything.

[incywincyhero]

Our memories make us who we are, right? Getting sent back ... it's going home, but also losing part of ourselves.

[gallitrap]

And the bonds to our friends, too.

Then again, I don't really look forward to being eleven again, either.

[incywincyhero]

Wait, what? How old are you now, if you don't mind my asking?

[gallitrap]

Thirteen, almost fourteen.

[incywincyhero]

Damn, kid, you've been here a while. Almost from the beginning of the imPorts, right?

[gallitrap]

Four months after the first of them, but there aren't very many people left who've been here that long. It'll be two and a half years for me in about two weeks.