[voice-the eris plot]

[quicktoreward]

[Utena's voice is quieter than usual, more subdued, without it's brashness or tone of surety. She sighs deeply.]

What's the point of this? I don't get it at all. I don't want to be here--this isn't the right place at all.

[Her fingers are rapping against a table top or a desk.] ...I guess I should ask a question. What is something eternal? Does such a thing exist? There probably isn't. Everything ends. Everything fades away in the end.

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[hugmyscythe]

You are most correct, in that there is

nothing eternal.

It is merely an ideal,
like all that is

immortal or endless.

A human thought,
a human concept,and just as flawed.

[quicktoreward]

I see. Then there isn't anything left.

[hugmyscythe]

It does not meanthings cannot be restored to

some semblance of form.

[ souls can. life can. it may not be the same, because rebirth happens from moment to moment. ] Change is constant, that is why

not one thing
or state

is eternal.

voice

[wasabloodknight]

Just because something or someone fades away doesn't mean it can't be eternal.

voice

[quicktoreward]

[she is quiet again] That's what my aunt said...but that doesn't bring them back, does it? They're gone and I'm not where I'm supposed to be and nothing has changed.

oh noooo

[sandinmyboots]

Yep! You've finally got it! Nothing is eternal. All things end. It's all pointless!

[quicktoreward]

...It's all so obvious.

[createswithink]

Oi, don't listen to this guy. It's not all pointless.

[sandinmyboots]

It is!

So, what will you do now that you've realized the truth?

[jesus_is_gundam]

You sound upset.

[Isn't he insightful?]

[quicktoreward]

...sorry.

[jesus_is_gundam]

For?

[tenminutes]

It depends on what you're trying to think of in terms of eternity.

[quicktoreward]

Anything, really. There is no such thing as eternity. Nothing that lasts for a lifetime or more.

[tenminutes]

I don't know. I'm dead and still going. I hear the community's pretty good at the whole miracle thing too. What happened?

( text )

[geolatry]

[ there's a long pause before the beginning of words. a long pause before the blinking of the cursors seems to desist. a long time, before letters begin to take shape. seem to take shape. and --

this is not the tenjou he has come to know. nothing within her had felt of this. nothing within her had seemed like this. what was projected -- that is. he did not dig. did not think to dig. knowing it rude. knowing it unwelcome. knowing it, but -- even so: ]

Not all things fade. |

[voice]

[quicktoreward]

[her fingers continue to tap against the desk. a sigh. the brushing of long hair against a microphone.]

They tell me that. That if I just wait the hurt will go away but they can't prove it. They don't understand--I'm not stupid. Just because the other kids don't realize doesn't mean that...! [her voice raises in anger, more towards herself than against him. then it quiets down almost instantly.] ...Sorry. I shouldn't have yelled.

[geolatry]

Tenjou.

[ there's a firmness and a softness, there. even in text. even in the way the words scroll. a vast and winding patience. so accustomed to sadness. so accustomed to sorrow. knowing the hearts of so many others. soaked and soaked endlessly in the weight of their tears: ]

This pain you feel isn't their own, is it? [ slowed. a pause: ] All grief extinguishes when it chooses to. Even so, a dream for something... It will never burn out, unless you want it. |

[ and, seemingly with reassurance. a stricter tonality, though it falls gentle. scrolls, gentle: ] Do you understand?

[elloran]

I...struggle with that question quite a bit. You are quite right, to think that nothing is truly eternal. Not love, or art, or music.

But those things are beautiful, none the less. And so I take joy in transience, because that instant of beauty is all the more powerful because it will not last.

If...if you need to get away from your world, I would be happy to open my palace to you. It is not much, but it might help some.

[quicktoreward]

I...am trying to understand. It is hard. I'm not sure I can but I am trying.

I need to stay here. I think.

[elloran]

We are all flawed humans here. Trying is the best we can do.

Follow your instinct, then.

[aburningspirit]

Hey, what's the matter with you?

[quicktoreward]

...They're gone.

[enshrined]

Utena-sama?

[Oh, this is not good.]

[quicktoreward]

I'm just Tenjou.

[Beat.]

You're the other person in this building, aren't you... Where am I? Who are you?