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[determinedest]

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[determinedest]

You said you got to hold your SOUL.
How?

[ssmisery]

oh that was way back in the underground lab thing, because I was secretly in a fake body or whatever. more fake. it made no sense, don't ask me.

[HOW DO YOU CLONE A ROCK???]

come to think of it, did that actually make sense for the humans either?

[determinedest]

It wasn't from my world. But I didn't have a clone.

[They already have enough of those. Ha ha.]

Why are you asking

[ssmisery]

they're kind of a big topic lately.

[Souls in the news. Souls are trending. Make up your own hashtag. That's a simplification of the reasons, but it's not wrong.]

[determinedest]

Are you worried about yours?

[ssmisery]

I'm not going to die.

[determinedest]

That's not what I asked

[ssmisery]

if wonderland can take me out of my gem, that might mean it isn't the same thing as a soul.
are they something people generally should worry about?

[determinedest]

I guess so
If Wonderland is pulling our SOULs into the CORE I guess we should be worried.

[ssmisery]

yeah, well, again. that's if you die.
your SOUL is what makes you you, right? what happens when it gets hurt?

[determinedest]

It depends on how.
My SOUL got hurt all the time Underground. Monsters attacked it.
It broke a lot. But I always woke up again.

It's different here.
Most things don't hurt my SOUL.

They just try to hurt my body instead.

[ssmisery]

That's not what I asked

[determinedest]

[Touché.]

It hurts.
Your SOUL is you.
When it hurts, so do you.

[ssmisery]

actually I guess that WAS kind of a stupid question, wasn't it.
between you and me, I'm not completely sure what I'm trying to do here either.

[determinedest]

Are you worried about your SOUL?

[ssmisery]

nah.

[determinedest]

Then why were you asking?

[ssmisery]

i said i don't know.
things have just been weird. don't you think so too?

[determinedest]

I guess.
I've kind of gotten used to weird.
Things are weirder if they're normal LOL

[ssmisery]

i'm so tired of having to get used to it.
I don't want to get used to it
I'm just trying to keep myself safe, and peridot, and not totally lose my mind, and it just keeps getting more complicated.

[determinedest]

But there are nice moments too.
Some of the events aren't so bad.
And we have time in between.

[ssmisery]

that's what people say.
how do you do it?

[She asked them something like that back when she first arrived, but she was too worked up to actually want an answer. She's perhaps asked it more earnestly to other people once or twice, but she rarely bothers. The recurring question has become a part of the backdrop here, unspoken, seeping in to haunt her like an apparition no one else can see.]

[determinedest]

I have people who make it easier.
I have a garden that lets me think about something else for a while.

[ssmisery]

none of that lets me forget I'm trapped
I know most other people don't like it here either, but it seems like everyone else can at least
put that aside

[determinedest]

It's not exactly forgetting you're trapped.
It's like making the best of it.