nevertheless the people still sketch the flame of their undying lives;

[liberazoth]

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[liberazoth]

[ and he'll offer it, after a moment of rummaging through the supplies to gather his thoughts. ]

... I wonder too.

In the end, we still don't actually know if the people who took the offer to leave ... Actually made it home or not. They could have chose to stay just because it was the safer option. Even though they don't know much about the town, they know more about it than they do the spirits, it sounds like.

[moonblades]

You're right. We can't know the how of getting home when we haven't got a good handle on how we arrived here in the first place, either.

[She looks pensive. Mio knows how easy it is to fall into patterns just because you're told it's the thing things should be and how they've always been; she both completely believes that things could have unfolded the way they were told and suspects that things might be being downplayed as commonplace.]

Do you think it's strange at all to not see spirits that apparently have such extreme demands? I can't quite look at it rationally myself.

[liberazoth]

Where I'm from, there are beings who are invisible to those who don't have a certain aptitude for, ah, working with or partnering with them ... So I guess it's not too far-fetched to think we can't see these spirits normally.

[ that is, if they actually do exist. it really could go either way. they can choose not to believe both of the ladies, but that leaves them knowing nothing at all. or they can believe that everything told to them was truth in its entirety, and that they might not still be getting the whole story. but for what reason, though...?

(truths that might at the same time be lies of omission. ...not again.) ]

Still, this all would sound more like a bad ghost or horror story... if it weren't for how we're the ones stuck in it.