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[eldesthatter]

What is all this? These pictures in my book. They're awful. People are dying. Suffering. Surely this can't all be real. So many people hurting like this...

Please tell me it isn't true. That it is some awful illusion. It must be.

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[makewayforroze]

No... no, I don't think they are.

[eldesthatter]

Perhaps they found a way to escape this...community.

[makewayforroze]

Not everyone thinks of it as escaping. I've made some very important friends, here.

[eldesthatter]

That doesn't change the fact that it is dangerous.

[makewayforroze]

No, no it doesn't.

[eldesthatter]

I don't like it. Not one bit.

[makewayforroze]

This has really bothered you, hasn't it?

[eldesthatter]

This place...it will only mean bad things for someone like me. I do not worry about myself, but it could affect my family as well.

[makewayforroze]

That's why we help one another.

[eldesthatter]

I don't see how someone could help in cases like this.

[makewayforroze]

We can offer a place to stay, so your friend's won't notice something is weird, at least.

[eldesthatter]

So I am to be a burden to a stranger instead?

[makewayforroze]

No, not a burden.

[eldesthatter]

It would be a burden. I am sure of it.

[makewayforroze]

Most of us become friends. Why would it be a burden?

[eldesthatter]

I am the eldest of three. It is the nature of such things.

[makewayforroze]

You've had friends over before, haven't you?

[eldesthatter]

My family has had guests before. The matter is not the same.

[makewayforroze]

A friend is a friend, no matter where they're from.

[eldesthatter]

The problem is not the friend. The problem is myself.

[makewayforroze]

What do you mean?

[eldesthatter]

As I said, I am the eldest of three.

Where I am from that means bad fortune.

[makewayforroze]

Why would you birth order change your luck? I'm sure it meant you had a lot of responsibility growing up but that isn't bad luck.

[eldesthatter]

Perhaps not where you are from. It is in Ingary.

[makewayforroze]

Then it's true? You really have been cursed with bad luck?