A Fool and the World; Video

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Elizabeth had been watching the identity crises that had been happening for the week and firstly, she was not suffering through one being spared the fake identity, secondly her own identity was something she was still figuring out so it all seemed odd to her. Still many people were upset, so she had given it some time before posing her question.

"People of this place, I admit that being spared some of the more odd parts of living the lie that was pushed on us a few weeks ago I am uncertain how to ask this but I shall try."

She takes a breath and nods.

"What about you is defined by you internally, and what about you is defined by the world around you? Is it all one? Is that why the previous lie was so difficult for many to see, or is there something different, like the fire that was stoked in many by the spirits that ran rampant when I came here? I myself am a bit confused by all of this and would appreciate any help. That and while I no longer have access to the many rewards for assistance from home and can offer little more than appreciation for help, still hope that kindness is a form of currency that has not been erased from this place."

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Elizabeth wanted to like humans, really, there was one who she did and he gave his life for the others so they weren't all bad in her book. They just drove her a little nuts sometimes.

"I know. I would have stayed where I was if there were not some worth caring about. I left to help one, I was told he was here too, but is no longer. A shame at that too."

[mysicksadlife]

Daria was human. She just didn't like people a lot of the time.

"If someone's gotten out of here, I don't think he's the one you need to worry about," she pointed out. She'd been looking for a way out for... nine months or so now. Weird to think it was that long.

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"Is this an inescapable prison then? Time is something that does not concern me so I simply thought it was a matter of waiting till the masters here either made an error or died."

[mysicksadlife]

"Anyone who's gotten out sure hasn't bothered telling the rest of us how first," Daria tells Elizabeth. She ignores the part about the masters or whatever, because a bunch of overfed guys in suits, with agendas that would make her school principal proud, aren't really people she respects either.

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Still, Elizabeth was told Minato was here and is no longer here so escape is possible.

"But people have left?"

[mysicksadlife]

"I've heard of it," says Daria, but she sounds dubious. "What's the likelihood of this happening for years and no one ever telling someone else, though?"

Really, if there was a way, then the system was fallible. If the system was fallible, then there should have been a way to warn everyone else sometime somehow.

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"If you were granted but a moment to escape, and that moment would be gone if you went back to tell others would you take it? I know most are more concerned with what is called 'enlightened self interest' as opposed to aiding everyone."

She shakes her head sadly at that.

[mysicksadlife]

I'm pretty sure it takes more than a moment to prepare for a supposedly interdimensional journey. [And, in the far likely event that it's all delusional, she's pretty sure that doesn't tend to be fixed in a moment, either. Neither does a discharge from a hospital, for that matter.]

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Elizabeth shakes her head and speaks very matter of factly.

"No, not really, in my experience it is more like simply walking through a door. If I could make it to the sea of the soul here I would gladly show you, but it seems that I have been cut off from that place."

[mysicksadlife]

"Right," says Daria, who's learned to play along a little because at this point, it's just tiring and wasted energy not to. The sea of the soul, then.

"Anyway, that's still a pretty long time for nothing to leak out. Especially when some of these people supposedly come back." For further treatment, quite possibly.

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"I don't know then. I still haven't figured out how I was brought here but am simply trying to make the best of it. May I ask how you were brought to this place?"

[mysicksadlife]

"The same way everyone else was, I guess. I don't exactly remember coming here. No one else seems to, either, though." Now that she thinks about it, that's pretty suspicious, too.

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"I believe I went through a portal and ended up here, but yes. I can not exactly place it myself."

[mysicksadlife]

"I don't remember any portal or anything like that, either. It remains a mystery." The flat voice takes something away from the statement, but it's true at face value.

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Elizabeth is used to linefacers and flat voices so it doesn't seem to bother her at all. Sadly, this is all new and interesting to her and she has the tone of someone who wants to ask a million questions about something fascinating.

"Have you ever considered trying to solve the mystery? Or is it one of those things that is best left mysterious?"

[mysicksadlife]

"As horrifying as the grand realization of the truth will probably be, I'd rather solve it." She wasn't going to get very far otherwise. Whether this was real, madness, or something else, she pretty much needed to know which. "Leaving it mysterious means leaving it alone."

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"A very admirable view. I am honored to make your acquaintance."

[mysicksadlife]

"Don't get mushy about it. It's just practical. And self-interested." Because really, she's not going to sit here claiming she wants to rescue everyone. She just wants to go home herself.

Alright, probably with Quinn.

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The will to survive was something basic and primal, something Elizabeth ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD so she saw nothing wrong with it.

"There is nothing wrong with enlightened self interest. It is how one survives after all."

[mysicksadlife]

There's nothing wrong with survival at all. Daria just has that nagging feeling she probably wouldn't really be able to ditch everyone. At least, if she had a way to get them out, too, or something.

"Survives, and goes home, I hope. Sometime, at least."

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"I wish you nothing but luck in your endeavor then. If I find anything out I will gladly share it."