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Sender ID: anonymous (Astarion)
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Subject: The Rifts
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What is even the point of becoming close to anyone here, if they can all just leave as quickly as they came?

Oh, sure, let's all play our little games and finish our silly little quests and feel this sense of camaraderie working towards a goal we all damn well know is unaccomplishable. And along the way, we can learn the magic of friendship only to have it taken away by the Rifts without any further explanation.

It would be nicer to believe we were being held to the whims of some vengeful god instead of the unfeeling randomness of the Rifts and their "unknowable" magic.

Then, at least, there would be someone to curse for the cruelty of it.

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He wasn't my "bestie" and I don't need one.

He just understood me in a way no one else can.

Yeah, you sure sound like you don't need one, Grumpy Anon.

Okay, I can get that, so he was from your world and no one is. Well, guess what, no one else is from my world either and I still found people who kind of get me. Maybe more than anyone at home ever did.

He isn't from my world. If he was, I would be able to see him again.

Mutual circumstance brought us together. We both got dealt the same shitty hand of cards from the universe.

Ooookay. So you bonded over something shitty. Who's to say there aren't more people here that weren't also dealt a similar hand?

Or are you just a one-and-done kind of person?

I very much doubt it.

You doubt there's anyone else like him, or you doubt that you're a one-and-done person.

I doubt that there is anyone who would understand.

But you don't know that for sure!

You're just being, "oh woe is me, he was my (possibly platonic) soulmate from another universe and there will never be another like him", instead of asking around like; "hey, so I have this unique situation and was wondering if anyone might understand what it's like".

If I told you, that would rather ruin the point of anonymity.

Well, yeah, but look just how many people actually anon'd you back.
I don't think anyone is going to care if they know it's you... or maybe they'll care more.

[ Some part of him wants to tell her. Half to prove his point, and half simply because the sympathy she offers him is alluring. But after being seen by Fenris only to lose him, he's not sure he can go through it again. ]

I'll pass.

[ She gets it, getting hurt only to put themselves out there again right away is hard and scary. Not everyone can do it. ]

Okay, but seems like you've got a good idea on how to use the phones if you ever change your mind.

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