@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]

you saying this isn't the worst just makes me think you're tempting fate and it's only gonna get worse.

you'd come back after you went home?

[wiccant]

I really doubt it's going to get that much worse.

Maybe. There's still people who need help.

[heliophilous]

you say that now.

[ let's hope you were right, billy. ]

you'd think that maybe they'd leave if that option opened up all things considered.

[wiccant]

I have a friend back home who can punch her way through multiversal barriers.
Literally.
So getting back someplace I've already been doesn't really sound that difficult to me.

[heliophilous]

a handy person to have around.

let's hope this place survives that long. after what happened a few weeks ago, i'm not so optimistic for this place's future.

[ glass always half empty. ]

[wiccant]

( look he gets the attitude and the reasoning but also. )

It'll be fine.
Like everything does suck and I get it but this world won't give up that easy.

[heliophilous]

let's hope you're right.

i've seen people work damn hard to try and end a world before.

[wiccant]

I've seen many that were already in ruins.
Where civilization as we knew it was gone. Where people had gone wrong and taken over, or been manipulated into decisions they would have never made normally.
But people are strong. This place is full of heroes.
And someone has to believe in us.

[heliophilous]

[ you should be giving ted talks for a living, billy. ]

sounds like you're the person to believe.

[wiccant]

That's a stupid idea.

[heliophilous]

why's that?

[wiccant]

I can't even believe in myself half the time.

[heliophilous]

and yet, you're trying to get me to believe in something that i'm having a hard time accepting.

[wiccant]

Because it's important not to give up.
I didn't say I was a shining example of it.

[heliophilous]

i'm not giving up.

i'm just not an optimist.

[wiccant]

Are you sure?

[heliophilous]

positive.

never have been.

[wiccant]

I don't mean about that part.

I mean about the not giving up bit. Not being an optimist is one thing, but not believing at all is another.

[heliophilous]

if i'd given up, i wouldn't even be asking the question.

no, i'm not there yet.

[wiccant]

you're for going back too, right?

[heliophilous]

yeah.

i have to. i can't stay.

[wiccant]

What's waiting for you back home?

[heliophilous]

friends.

things i have to help fix.

[ his daughter. ]

[wiccant]

Makes sense.

I hope you get back to them soon.

[heliophilous]

thanks.

i hope you do too.