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You could be a ghost.

[hiyakai]

i must be one talented ghost to communicate with you like this

[scrlies]

Are you?

[hiyakai]

unfortunately, i'm not that interesting

all flesh and blood here

[scrlies]

How did you get out of Hell?

[hiyakai]

if you want to know, then you're gonna have to share something interesting about yourself

this conversation is getting a little too one sided

[scrlies]

I'm a college student.
I had a pretty normal childhood, in a normal small town.
Not much is interesting about me.

[hiyakai]

i don't think that's true
you believed me when i told you that i've been in hell
you also suggested that i could be a ghost
and in my experience, people who live in small towns tend to cross paths with the supernatural more often than not

[scrlies]

I woke up in a new universe surrounded by people arguing about gods.
Ghosts don't seem too far off.
And there has never been anything supernatural about Henrietta.

[hiyakai]

all very fair points

[ but he still doesn't believe him. ]

fine, i won't push you
since you're a college student, how old are you?

[scrlies]

You're not pushing anything.
Nineteen.

[hiyakai]

oh cool
you're only a few years younger than me

[scrlies]

What do you do, then?

[hiyakai]

well, adam, just like you, i'm in a new universe
and i wasn't here all that long before i got dragged off into another
it doesn't give a guy much time to find a job

[scrlies]

You make a lot of assumptions for people you're meeting over the internet.

[hiyakai]

what assumption was i making right then?

[scrlies]

That our situations are similar.

[hiyakai]

that's fair

so tell me, how are they different?

[scrlies]

Will you fill me in on yours?
So I can give you an accurate answer.

[hiyakai]

well, you already know i just arrived here before i went into the aerie

you also know i don't have a job currently
what more is there to say?

[scrlies]

How was the Aerie?

[hiyakai]

it was a classist system with monthly death matches that served as public entertainment

you could get thrown into the quarry just for littering, so what do you think?

[scrlies]

Sounds like it was terrible for a significant amount of people.

[hiyakai]

it was

it also screwed with our memories, so we all had different lives there

[scrlies]

How are you handling it?