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Who: A couple of Katsumoris and whoever
When: July 29th late night/July 30th early morning
Where: the school grounds
What: stargazing time!
Warnings: N/A

[wheremst is this school? Miskatonic Smith and Star are journeying out to confirm constellations! and may even stay out past curfew, oh my. surely, it's fine.]

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Perhaps. But people like to weave stories out of smaller details, too... Like the pattern of the stars.

That's true. Pattern recognition is a strong suit.

There's stories about there being rabbits on the moon, also.

...Charming. It sounds like a fable for a child.

Considering they're said to either be making the elixir of life or rice cakes... that's not wrong.

Interesting range... But we have something similar, so I suppose I can't judge.

Do you?

I suppose there are commonalities not just across cultures of the same world.

Well - similar in that we have a constellation that bears the same name but holds different meanings between cultures, at least.

Do you mind me asking what the differing meanings are?

I don't mind. In particular... I'm thinking of a constellation I'm assuming you won't be familiar with. The Far-Flung Queen.

In Nioh, she's referred to as Far-Flung because her greed and treachery flung her people into war. But in Valleyda, she was called the same because she was raised abroad and then returned to her home upon coming of age to usher in an era of peace. I assume you won't recognize either of those countries, though.

Not at all. But I'm very good at remembering details.

Well - I take it neither of us are surprised we're from very different places at this point.

[a-amused.]

Not at all. I'd be more surprised if you were from either of the places I've been.

[...]

Which would you want to go back to?

[expression blanks out.

no smile.

no frown.

a bit uncanny, like his face is nothing more than a mask.]

... I don't know.

[quickly:]

That's alright. Ignore the question.

... no...

[exhales and rubs a hand over his face. it's still a face. ha.]

It's a natural question. I just... have conflicting sides in that.

It's a moot point, in either case.

If it's one of the truths that's dangerous, I'll let it go. But if you'd like to speak about it regardless of the confliction...

[quiet for a moment. mostly just... is there a way to put this so it's understandable without hitting on those dangers?]

... in one world, I have the power to protect those I care for.

In the other, I don't. And I won't. The only way to preserve what I care for is to preserve my own longevity, you could say.

Rather than about "want"... it's priorities...

[after a moment of thought]

The choice seems obvious to me, from that, so I'm assuming there's something I'm not aware of.

You presume there is a choice at all.

That it was ever a choice.

Ah. That would have been the part I'm not aware of, then.

Yes, it would.

... though... what I could make choices in... I did make those choices.

But it's difficult to feel as though you have none. I understand.

... I'm sorry that you do.

Don't be. I've made peace with it, where it applies. And I've had plenty of opportunity to make my own decisions.