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[a_sin_for_him]

Time is such a funny thing.

[Lust is sitting outside, clearly enjoying the early evening, and her Spheal and Eevee can be seen playing together in the background.]

It feels as though I just woke up in this world a short while ago, but tomorrow morning will mark a full year's passing.

When I first came here, I had nothing, not even my life. Now I sit here with my own home, family, people I call friends, a vocation of my own. I've been given a chance to know those I never would have before, offered opportunities that had been ripped away, handed the liberty to dictate my own actions and path in life.

And I think I hated this place, a little, at the beginning. The strangeness of it, the unfamiliarity, the changes it wrought in my physical form.

That's the thing about time.

It changes all things, eventually.

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[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

....A lot can happen, in a year's time.

[Veronica didn't speak much on the network, but this one caught her attention.]

I worry about it, sometimes.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

More than I would have imagined.

I'm inclined to believe everyone does, to some extent. Time brings change, nothing that thinks enjoys changes.

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

That makes sense. Humans don't like change, but it happens all the time. Sometimes there's nothing we can do about it.

[Their current situation being one such thing.]

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

Change means something new. New is always frightening on some primal human level. Until the new becomes the familiar and there's something else on the horizon to fear in turn.

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Yeah.... [That earns a look of unease from her. There had been much change in her life, and most of it not well.]

That's pretty accurate.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

It's difficult to remember that there's often nothing to fear in the first place.

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Especially after you've been through way too much.

[This place had better throw something at her one day, or else she might become paranoid.]

But, I guess it's nice for a change.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

It's another form of conditioning - if we live through unpleasantness enough, we expect it.

[She understands that well.]

But this place is a pleasant change.

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

That makes more sense then not. A bunch of unpleasant shit happened back home before I got here.

[Her sister was trapped in a sunken cruise liner. Joy.]

...It really is different here.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

We expect what we know. But perhaps this world can undo some of that conditioning.

As you say, it's much different here.

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

...I guess it already has. My sister would be pretty happy, right now.

[Video]

[a_sin_for_him]

It's changed me, I know.

Oh?

[Video]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

She always wanted me to get along with people. She'd drag me along to the schools she went to so I could make friends.