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[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.

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I'll give you my word that I'm mostly harmless. [He says, with a cheerful tone.] This is a strange place full of strange people certainly, so it'd be harder to ignore things here.

When everyone is strange, things start to feel less strange all together.

That's how it is, I think. Perhaps it's just us that's adjusting to the strangeness of it all.

Well, I've had almost five years to adjust. You'd think I could manage to focus on the strangest things by now.

Hahaha. I don't think five years would exactly be enough. It certainly took me a longer while to get used to most things.

In the span of a usual lifetime, five years is a decent percentage. Here...it seems like forever, and also no time at all.

Five years does sound like a long time to be living in this one enclosure for, that's for certain. What's the longest that you know a person's been here for?

Almost six, I believe.

Wow. [A slightly hushed voice, then a thoughtful hum.]

I wonder how long we'll be here, if this place ever decides to close.

"Close"? What do you mean by that?

While it's likely that this enclosure could be kept up for years to come, it's not entirely reasonable to think it'll last forever. That's definitely a long, unrealistic time. If it's been open for a little over half a decade now... I got a little curious how much longer it might last.

Do you not know? It was here well before us, or some variant of it was. If nothing else, the messages in the tunnels...

...could have been fabricated, couldn't they.

It probably wouldn't be wise to jump to either conclusion. I haven't been here long enough to know about what happened in the previous years. But I believe that is a possibility.

Still, I suppose I just believe more strongly that one day, all things'll come to an end.

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