[ audio] || a question

[fatespoken]

What determines when we're meant to leave? Would you call it something as fanciful as destiny? Logically speaking, it's apparently arbitrary. I've asked myself this question time and time again: why does someone enter the city, stay a month, and then leave on their 32nd day? Why can someone stay for three years and never seem to leave?

Everyone is

Comments

[greding]

Fred didn't want to leave, either. Didn't stop them from taking him.

[fatespoken]

I never said it was that simple. Merely wanting hardly does anything.

[greding]

What's with the cheap philosophy, then?

[fatespoken]

What philosophy? I'm only asking questions. Hypothetical questions.

[ a pause. ]

And I'm curious what people have to say.

[dulcisnuntius]

I don't want to leave. Do you think they'll let me stay for three years, too?

[fatespoken]

If I knew, I wouldn't have asked.

[iam_thebadwolf]

You're not the only one that don't want to leave. I'd like to know how it works too.

[fatespoken]

We seem to be in the minority. Most want to leave.

[iam_thebadwolf]

Yeah. They've all got somethin' they want to go back to. Guess some of us just have more here we want to stay for.

[fatespoken]

I wouldn't call it more. I mean, you're trapped in a vacuum. But it does seem easier to become complacent when you're cut off from the momentum of your own world.

[oneminutemaze]

I doubt either of those. Maybe this place is just usually too busy for people to ask.

[ Does she want to leave? Yes and no. She isn't so sure anymore. There's too much to interest her here, but can she live in a dream (even one that isn't a dream, not really)? She doesn't know. ]

Where can we pick them up?

[fatespoken]

Busy? Certainly, what we all have too much of here is time.

Those who don't ask have probably recognized the futility of it. Wanting doesn't stop inevitability-- we all will leave, and when--- that's just a random event. But at the same time, it's hard not be curious.

[He pauses. ]

There's a cafe close to the square. Atlas Cafe. I'll be there at 12 tomorrow.

[oneminutemaze]

Time and questions.

You're sure it's inevitable? [ That's something new -- most people are focused on "what if it never happens" instead of "what if it does". ]

I'll be there, then.

[fatespoken]

Three acquaintances left recently. They had left briefly before, but all together, they had been here for longer than three years.

It's not forever.

[withloadedguns]

Did you boil 'em or fry 'em?

[fatespoken]

Broil.

[withloadedguns]

Even better.

Any left?

[No, seriously: he will take a cat if you need someone to take one.]

[fatespoken]

One, maybe two.

I could do a combo special for you.