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[ In the very late hours of the night (or early morning depending on your perspective), there comes a message that's basically a stream of consciousness. ]

so, this mission. the location.
it's kind of like... my home world? or it reminds me of it
either way, it
got me thinking
and I realized I've been here
like a whole year? basically?

that's wild

I don't really know where I was going with this, I realize
I just needed to say it, I think
it doesn't feel real sometimes
it's a year more than I would have gotten otherwise, but also

it's complicated
I miss home
well, I mostly miss the people from home I think
not the actual place.

anyway, how long have some of you been here?
do you miss home, or is here better for you?
what do you think will happen when we're done here?
I think I just need to have some people to talk about it with, maybe
and I appreciate it

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I've only been here a few weeks, but yeah. I miss home.

I'm hoping when I'm done here I go home and my world doesn't get destroyed.

oh, man
only a few weeks? well, welcome
I wish I could say it gets better, but... well!
it's not bad. just different.

I hope so, too
even if I don't get to see it because of my uh
circumstances
I hope my world lives on

It seems fine here. Everyone's been pretty nice, and there's a lot of new and interesting things I've never seen before. It's just that my world's nice, too, and it's what I'm used to, so I miss it.

I hope your world lives on, too. I hope they're wrong about everything and everyone's world gets to live on.

a year more than you would have gotten otherwise?

i think i miss the people. my friends, more than the place itself. but i've only been here a few weeks.

[ Sorry, Rosie. Fabian is Fabian, which means he's going to be direct as all hell here. Because he can sure read a certain implication into her words, and he's just going to point it out. ]

are you feeling bad

Many happy returns on your anniversary, even if it’s a complicated one. You’re doing good work for your home even when it’s at its hardest. It has been a little over a month for me. I left home intending on never seeing it again, and I am fine to keep laying trail as long as I need to. When I’m done here, I’ll go home to my renewed world and drink wine and celebrate with friends for the rest of my days. That’s the optimistic thought, anyway :)

I miss home, but for what it's worth, this Earth but not mine is almost making that worse. At least Etraya feels appropriately alien in comparison.

How are you holding up?

haha
well
kind of?
like I said, it's complicated

it's a year I wouldn't have gotten
but also, like...
I wish I could see them again, I guess
my friends from home
and let them know I'm doing okay

ah
yeah, it's
a long story but
I'm pretty sure I died right before I woke up here?
or I was going to, so
it's a year I didn't expect to live

I feel the same though
even being here long as I have
my world wasn't, like, awful but...
the people were what made it for me

thanks!!
despite how it kind of feels weird, it's also definitely like
an accomplishment?

that's a nice thought
yeah, I left my actual home when I was real young but
I guess I didn't realize the ways I'd made a new one
until it was gone

yeah, you get it
this place isn't bad!!
I think it's just... too 'real' in a way lot of the other missions
or Etraya
haven't felt?

I'll be okay
they have lots to distract yourself with here if nothing else

yeah
that's the ideal
and, hey, who knows?
maybe there'll be a way for me to go back too eventually
I don't want to hope or anything, but
it'd be nice if nothing else to at least see the people I want to a last time

It is. Any time spent in the world is a victory. What do you miss about the home you made for yourself?

Edited (lol missed a word sorry) 2025-08-31 02:33 (UTC)

We stepped into people's lives fully. We're part of this world. Only we're not. Definitely feels like the wrong kind of 'real.'

What have your favorite distractions been?

oh. so that's what you meant. it would seem cruel. sending someone back to die.

you're right, though. i do miss my friends. not so much the place. i'm not sure if i hope that i hope they come here or not.

Wait. Why would it have to be one last time if we save your world?

Or do you mean if they decide to let your world die?

i don't think you've ever told me about your friends from back home

[ Just her boyfriend. And that talk had always felt a little.. weird. Weird in a way Fabian isn't fully sure he wants to explore, given that it gives him such a bad vibe every time he thinks about it.

But other people beyond that? He tries to think, but he can't remember.. ]

do you have a lot?
i guess i shouldn't be surprised that a girl like you has a whole crowd of friends waiting for her

oh, yeah!!
the morgans
they were a trio of 'brothers' I spent a lot of time around
immortal beings created of minerals by the deities of land, sky, and sea to be their avatars for each
Reyson, Feldspar, and Misto respectively
only Feldspar kept his true name
Reyson was a werewolf, Feldspar a vampire, and Misto was like... most worlds' equivalent of davy jones, I guess? helped souls lost at sea find peace

I met them all through work, actually
Reyson was security
Feldspar was our alchemist/magic man
Misto was the freighter who got things for us we couldn't locally
they were like the only people I really could be around
well, except for Nobora
he did the same work as me, but just appealed to a different clientele

[ i.e. While her beauty and appeal could attract many men, it couldn't attract all of them. They needed a wider net for that and that's where Nobora came in. ]

[ In some ways her story here isn't all that far from things Fabian has experienced in his own world.

In other ways.. well, it's pretty wild. He does need to reread the message at least once to properly grasp it, honestly. ]

so where you come from you have..... mineral werewolves??

[ He knows what werewolves are, at least! But he thought that those are just as flesh and blood as everyone else? Jawbone sure always seemed that way, anyway. ]

[ It's... a lot. She knows! She knows. Honestly, sometimes even she can't really believe it. ]

hehe
not all of them!
just Reyson, I think
he's where werewolves today came from since he was the first to exist
Feldspar too but with vampires
coupling with mortals meant those genes of theirs got passed on
it's not a bite or whatever that causes people to change, just genetics

oh!
well
I mean, hopefully my world won't die if I do things right here
but I won't be alive to know I guess
pretty sure my time there was up so this is all I got

cruel, yeah, but considering I'm getting any time at all?
not sure I can really complain too much

yeah
it's complicated for sure
I'd love to see them again, but I'd hate for them to be going through all this sometimes

Are you dead back home?

yeah
uncanny valley kind of real versus
fun fantastical new alien world real

uhm!!
music is always one
been trying to workshop some original songs for a change and... maybe perform where I can someday

yeah, probably
unless I somehow survived falling off a skyscraper
which
is probably unlikely

You might. Someone might see you falling and cast featherfall. or maybe a giant owl will catch you.

the people
the Morgans, mostly
they were my best friends and...
it's been hard going this without them
kind of ironic, really, cause I spent most of my life moving a lot and not making a lot of connections
but once I did, I ended up here and just losing it

that's a nice thought
I guess I can't rule it out entirely, but
it didn't look good in the end
and I wasn't even really the main target of it all, just collateral which makes it less likely I was going to be saved out of anyone

but still. i'm glad if being here is. hm, sort of like another chance? for some of us, at least.

i know what you mean. i miss my friends, but. maybe it's for the best that it's me here.

I hope you're wrong and someone does save you.

I don't think you've lost them. They're just in another place right now, and you'll be reunited again, in one form or another. But even if it's difficult to be separated, you have your memories with them, and everything they would want for you.

Yeah, not enjoying that whole part of it.

Oh, that sounds fun! I have no head for being creative about music, but I love hearing it, and I'll even sing along with the stuff I know. I'm sure people here would enjoy a performance if you feel up for it one day!

thank you
I hope you're right
even if I don't get to see them again though, I just hope
I hope what we're doing here does mean they're safe
that's all I'd really want if nothing else

thank you
that's sweet of you
I won't let myself hope for it, too, but
knowing someone is for me is nice

yeah!! it's a little... bittersweet, sometimes, but
it's still a chance I wouldn't have otherwise

yeah
I get that
but hey! you can make new friends here, too
and then have friends all over your world and others! that's pretty cool to think about

I'm trying to get there!
honestly, the only one really stopping me at this point is
probably me?
and worrying it's not, like, going to be good enough to actually perform
I guess I'll never know though if I don't just go for it eventually

oh. you're right. that is pretty amazing to think about it that way...!

i'm glad
it does help me, sometimes
even if I don't get to, like, see those other worlds
it'd still be cool to know we're connected to them in some way when this is all over, y'know?

yeah, that's...pretty amazing to think about. to have friends from so many different places. worlds!

worlds!!
well, thanks
that helps me too a little
I was kind of down but... I don't know
it's not all bad
not that I thought it was, but
a year is a long time!

it is. i think that's maybe around how old i am? or close to it now. if you count my time here.

oh in spyre it very much happens through bites
and probably genetics too???
i never really asked a werewolf about that one
and if i'd ask jawbone he'd probably assume he'd have to give me some weird sex ed and it'd get all awkward

[ No thanks!!! Running as fast as he can from Jawbone and that guy's attempts at giving Fabian therapy is Fabian's favorite hobby, thanks. ]

but i do know it sure as anything has nothing to do with minerals

yeah, it's a combination where I'm from
or like
it started as a mutated gene? then just got passed down

jawbone...
that's such a werewolf name, hahaha

Reyson and his brothers ARE unique cases though
but they act just like regular guys a lot of the time
so I forget they're technically old as time originators of certain species

wait
what???
you're only a year old?!

mm. i was about nine months old back home, so. if you count my time here. i think it's about a year?

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