@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

with everything that's gone on lately, i had a question.

if given the choice, how many people would stay here and how many people would leave? i get that it's a pretty personal question and don't feel like you've gotta answer. i'm just curious considering the way the place has changed lately and the people that have been lost.

could you live your life here? or would you leave and take your chances?

Comments

[heliophilous]

or maybe we're being used.

[ sorry, he's not a very optimistic person after some recent events. ]

i'd prefer it your way but i can't shake the thought that we're just pawns.

[shield]

I know the feeling, and I can't say I disagree. I don't think we'd be wise to take anything here at face value. But helping this world and investigating what brought us here don't have to be mutually exclusive goals.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

I've made my intentions clear. I just want to make sure that we all get a choice.

[heliophilous]

so, what's the limit?

how far do we go before we just come to the conclusion that what brought us here isn't gonna be discovered?

[heliophilous]

i remember.

and that's why i asked. your information made me curious about what other people thought. i'll be honest, i didn't think anyone would have a reason to stay here when i first showed up.

i've been proven wrong.

@gaby.teller

[myownwoman]

I would prefer home. Outside a wall.

[heliophilous]

that the only thing that stops you from wanting to stay here? the inability to leave?

[myownwoman]

There are many things that would stop me, the wall is simply the largest.

[heliophilous]

and if there was no wall here? what would stop you next?

[myownwoman]

I miss home. My job is important and I am good at it.

[shield]

I don't know if I have a limit, personally. It's been said that knowing when to quit isn't my strong suit.

But I also don't know if that's the most pressing question, at least for me. If we can figure out how to get back without ever discovering how we were brought here in the first place, I could live with never knowing.

[ He would hate it, but he could live with it. ]

[heliophilous]

you think there's anything that could make you stay?

not trying to convince you but i'm curious.

[heliophilous]

i don't know if i could. i'd wonder every single day even if i was safe and healthy back where i came from.

[ would it bother him enough to try and get back here to figure out it out? that's a question he doesn't know the answer to. ]

i'd be pissed. taking me away from what i was doing but not giving me a reason? i'd be pissed about it.

@yalena.yardeen

[motivation]

i have shit i need to do
i'd leave, if i could

[heliophilous]

[ oh, marcos remembers her. pole dancing lady. ]

leave with no regrets?

[motivation]

[ all that flirting, reduced to pole dancing lady ]

guess so

[ there are many things she regrets, but most of them have nothing to do with this place ]

why, what about you?

[heliophilous]

[ some things were more memorable than others. ]

i think i'd choose to go back.
but it wouldn't be that easy.
even if i haven't been here that long.

[motivation]

[ the mental image of her pole dancing left an impression, clearly ]

let me guess
you got attached

[heliophilous]

[ wouldn't it leave an impression on anyone? ]

you make it sound like a bad thing.

[ he doesn't confirm or deny, though. ]

[motivation]

i know someone who'd say that it makes you weak

[ she also knows someone who'd say it makes you stronger. she doesn't know what to believe, which is right ]

[heliophilous]

cutting yourself off entirely sounds lonely.

not that i haven't considered it.

[ lonely but safe. ]

[motivation]

it doesn't work great

[ why is she telling him even this much? maybe because johnny is gone and she's trying her hardest to get drunk ]

[heliophilous]

you don't have to do it, you know.

nothing wrong with attachments.

[ says the man that tried his damndest not to get attached for awhile. ]

[shield]

[ That's—a good point, actually. Steve wants to leave more than he wants to know what brought him here, and he's desperate enough to get back that he'd sacrifice his chance at getting answers. But there's no guarantee that getting back would truly be the end of it. ]

You know, I heard that our memories of this world don't follow us back. I wonder if that's a precaution to keep us from digging.

As much as I want to get home, I think you're right. It's not the sort of thing you just forgive and forget.

[heliophilous]

i hadn't heard that.

[ but he also hadn't asked. ]

i was here once before. but a different version of me, if that makes sense. i didn't have his memories. didn't remember anyone here.