Voice:Ben Solo

[havethestrength]

I have a few questions if anyone is willing to answer.

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[toivory]

Years, in one case. Months, in others. Others that are dead in my world are here, alive.

Time and death seem to mean little here.

[havethestrength]

[That isn't good. There had already been more than enough people alive who could come here and spread what he had done, the kind of man he had been. Add those who he had killed (personally or not) and that number was almost infinite.]

Have you ever come across someone who wanted you dead? ' That have every right to want to.'[The thought is like an afterimage sitting in the air. He hadn't meant to add it, but it was there all the same, even as he had no idea it sent through to her.]

[toivory]

I have, but he was an echo, a shape borrowed from my mind by this place.

Of those that are truly here? No, not yet, though they are out there.

[havethestrength]

Someone told me that if we die we come back. Is that true?

[toivory]

From what I have heard, yes.

[havethestrength]

Have you?

[toivory]

Have I come back from the dead? No.

[havethestrength]

But you know those who have.

[It's less a question than a statement.]

[toivory]

Yes. My boyfriend is dead back home.

[havethestrength]

I meant those that died here.

[He's not worried about his inevitable death back home. He's worried about his inevitable repeated death here.]

[toivory]

No, I cannot help you there, I'm afraid. Perhaps Alex Reagan can help you? She's incredibly smart about these things, and has been here for some time.

[havethestrength]

A girl named Alex was the one who told me about it.

[toivory]

Ah, yes, of course. She drives the Welcome Wagon after all.

[havethestrength]

Wagon?

[Right, that thing that ptimative planets use to port things.]

Why would you need a welcome wagon?

[toivory]

To introduce people to this world, answer any questions they might have and to make them feel welcome.

All of us tend to stick together around here.

[havethestrength]

Has there ever been someone you don't want to stick with?

[toivory]

Yes. But she is very different here than she was back home.

[havethestrength]

How?