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[hiyakai]

unfortunately, i'm not that interesting

all flesh and blood here

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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

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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

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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?

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You're not pushing anything.
Nineteen.

[hiyakai]

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

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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?

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That our situations are similar.

[hiyakai]

that's fair

so tell me, how are they different?

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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?

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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?

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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

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How are you handling it?

[hiyakai]

honestly?

not great

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Do you want to talk about it?

[hiyakai]

sure why not

i know the memories i have there aren't real
not all of them anyway
but i'm having trouble separating myself from them
emotionally

they basically took my life, stripped away the bulk of my experiences and changed me into someone i'm not
frankly, it makes me sick to my stomach
like they made a mockery of who i am, you know?

i haven't even begun to reconcile with the me here, so it's just an extra unnecessary layer of bullshit