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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-07 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. It's important that I be given something for my time. Are you saying that you'll be able to provide satisfying payment for an answer I don't want to give?
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-07 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Didn't he just say it? He inhales slowly.]

Will you tell the other participants what became of Cefiro?
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-07 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He follows her gaze to the chaos below them. The terrible sight is easier to handle than their previous topic.]

. . . You intend to change the Pillar system and rebuild the world.
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-07 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He keeps his focus on the chaotic sea of debris below.]

Is there more?

[Or is this all there is to see?]
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-07 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . Thank you for sharing.

[While it's spoken in a business-like tone, it doesn't sound necessarily dismissive. He lifts his head, straightening.]
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-07 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[He could leave now, and he nearly does.]

I abide by the contract. The deal was to exchange memories, as well as my time for something unique. Like you, I'll answer a question about my world.
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-08 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
This and that are different. I had to give you an option to fulfill my request.
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-08 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
[For a few passing moments, Rufus says nothing. Then he operates the room to transpose the blurry image of a withered landscape where the earth looks nearly dead and what little life there is has been stripped bare of its produce. There are no people in this false reality—only a barren land that seems to exist in the middle of nowhere, slapped together into something livable by another man's trash.]
Edited (I found a better image.) 2020-10-08 01:13 (UTC)
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-08 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't answer right away. The dry stretch of land beyond the cliffside occupies his gaze for a good ten seconds before he turns to Hikaru.]

This is where I live.
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-08 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She's free to roam. Rufus stays where he is: He knows this area like the back of his hand, even if some of the details here are blurry.]

This part of the Underworld is known as the wilderness.
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-08 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[That draws a frown out of him.]

I wouldn't have said it if I wasn't serious.
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[personal profile] soulus 2020-10-08 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
The wilderness surrounds the city. It's as big as you would expect of a world where the souls of the dead go.

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