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[silversnowfall]

[It feels like she's been locked in that research room forever. Almost worse than legislative paperwork, turning five small piles of books about various worlds into something that might be useful. Synthesizing data, in a way that felt adventurously real at first before the familiar tedium of it all set in again. And there was more, left undone. There was always more.

Regardless, it will be a while before she attempts another mission. Even one that seems suited to her set of skills. Unlike so many others who go away on missions, Nephry walks herself toward home without difficulty. Thinking to surprise most of her housemates, she stops at the flower shop for something decorative and colorful. Anything to erase the lines of letters from behind her closed eyelids.

Once she does get home, however, there are some orders of business to address.]

Those of you who name your home as a planet called 'Earth': are you aware of just how many different worlds there are that share that name? That share most of a history, often an entire history save for one significant event? It was quite interesting. [Dull hours of reading aside.] Even more interesting that it doesn't seem to be true of most if not all of the other worlds represented here - there is only one Auldrant, for example.

[And now, the heavier news.]

When I returned a short while ago, I...I found Anise's room empty. It appears she has gone home.

Comments

[Action]

[yourfononsarewhack]

Perhaps. What exactly do you think that she was seeking here?

[Action]

[silversnowfall]

The person she might have been if the circumstances of her life had not forced her hand.

[Action]

[yourfononsarewhack]

That's right. She was present here from before her betrayal. Now that she's back there, she could be living that as we speak. It's a shame. [In the last sentence, there isn't much of his usual levity.]

[Action]

[silversnowfall]

I think she struggled with that even here. In light of Ion's presence, it must have been hard.

[Action]

[yourfononsarewhack]

It certainly must have been. I never had the chance to speak to her directly about it, but... It seemed as if she had found out what had happened to him - or for her, what would happen to him.