silversnowfall | [73][voice]

[73][voice]

[This is a hard thing to start. "I regret to inform you" sounds too stiff and formal; "Sorry to say" too informal and flippant. Just jumping in feels cold. But what, then?]

Susanne fon Fabre has gone home. [This one hits her particularly hard, and she has to stop a moment and resettle her voice.] I'm sorry.

[Asch and Luke]

You are welcome to come and see if she has left anything for you. I felt it would be remiss of me to go through her things, if any remain.

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Makes sense. Interesting that the two of you got to meet each other here of all places. Maybe you can find each other back home, now.

The prevailing theory is that neither of us will remember this when it's over. ...I'd like to think something will remain, though, all the same.

You won't remember it?

They say we don't remember Luceti once we've left it.

[How strange.]

Could it be because the Malnosso's doing that on purpose?

Hmm. I'm not the best person to ask, but...most things that happen here don't actually seem to have roots in the Malnosso themselves.

They aren't? What do you mean?

Well, for example, they aren't the ones who brought us here, though for a long time most people thought they did.

[Hm.]

Honestly, from what I've been told since arriving here, I assumed they were behind that as well.

Really? Will you share what you've heard?

A friend of mine told me about being experimented on, when I first got here. I didn't get many details about it, though.

The Malnosso do handle the...experiments and shifts. They are not the source of your arrival in this world, though. I believe they are the reason you are in this enclosure and not another.

So there are others such as this place. I suppose that shouldn't come as a surprise.

Do you know what, exactly, is responsible for our being here then?

Something about this world...needs us, or wants us, is the prevailing explanation, I believe.

...

Well, they certainly gave us lots of options about that, that's for sure.

We have enough options to make us more curious and enough roadblocks to stop us from sating that curiosity.

I think that's the case no matter where you go or what situation you're in, but some curiosities have answers. Are there any curiosities that have been sated?

Some. I've no reliable way of discussing it with you safely, right now, unfortunately. Unless we chose to meet somewhere.

I apologize.

My curiosity could kill a few cats, but I won't push it if you're busy.

It isn't a matter of being busy. This is simply not any kind of guarantee that our discussion wouldn't go overheard.

Understandable. I'm available at any time, if you are.

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