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I'm leaving home today. Most of my stuff is already at the apartment but, this is different. I'm not going to be coming back here very often. I want to say I'm worried about leaving my aunt here alone but, the truth is I think she'll handle it better than me. She's a pretty tough lady.

That just leaves me. I wonder if I can handle being everything that I need to be full time. [There's some silence before he sounds sheepish.]

Sorry that's kind of heavy and I don't even have a question for you guys. Uh.... let me think... oh. I think I got a good one.

What do you think makes a hero?

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You can't save everyone. You will almost always have to give up a few to save the many. When you save more and more people, you have to give up more people as well.

My friend - to save a hundred or so people, gave his soul to the World. And after that, one of the people he had saved framed him for being part of the cause of the war he had tried to stop, and had him executed. ...And it became worse from there.

[webslings.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. That must have been horrible to watch.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I wasn't there - it was his future self, who I only met recently. I only had to deal with the broken person he became.

[webslings.livejournal.com]

Still. You remembered who he was before that.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Does that make it better or worse?

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That depends on you.

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For the longest time, there was nothing I could do to help him.

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But, that changed?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I made a deal with Eris. It wasn't exactly smart, but it worked.

[webslings.livejournal.com]

Eris? Whose that?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Greek goddess of chaos. You must have heard of her?

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I've heard of her. I just didn't think she was real.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

A community member, in addition to being real.

[webslings.livejournal.com]

That's... good to know.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I don't advise talking to her or getting on her bad side.

[webslings.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely keep that in mind. How will I know it's her?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Username is chaos_godess, that's a hint.

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Thanks for the hint.