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This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with Helios anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written).

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[ Helios hunches a little and then shakes his head. ] You're not the one to b-blame for my discomfort. It's-it's other things that cause it as well. [ He gives Robert an apologetic look. ]

Please don't feel the need to aplogize.

P-Perhaps I'm simply... worried, for you. I mean...

... y-you must be a little lonely, without Giles...

[A pang goes through Robert as he says this. Jealousy, just a little bit, still clinging to that like a film. He needs to find some way to wipe that film off.]

I hope h-he comes back soon. H-He must be a very good friend.

[Robert knows he's not nearly that good...]

Worried? [ Helios looks surprised. He's not used to people being worried about him really. ] N-No need. I'm sure he'll be back soon. B-Besides there's Frederic an-and you and everyone else.

[ Helios looks down at his hands in his lap. Giles is a very good friend possibly one of the best he's ever had actually. ]

I-I just hope they don't do anything too harsh. Mm but that's never the case for the Malnosso.

I... certainly hope they treat him well...

[And Robert is aware of this, which is uncomfortable because he keeps wanting to be a good friend and keeps questioning his ability to be.]

The Malnosso are always... harsh.

...

Though... I spoke to... Ms. Molly, and she seemed...

... I don't know. Perhaps I am simply being sentimental.

They ought to. [ After everything him and Helios went through, yeah, they definately should. ]

They just...don't care.

Molly...Molly. [ It sounds so familiar. ] Ah! That girl...during the festival wasn't it? She...she didn't seem so bad actually.

It's hard to say what the people are like. But basing it on the scientist's actions alone...I don't think it's fair. [ But what else have they seen besides that? ]

She... was s-so very nervous, like I am.

...

And she remembered my name. [That makes him feel okay for some reason.]

... I was considering contacting her for a request. Or... even... simply to speak to her.

[Robert looks awkward here because he knows it sounds ridiculous. Chatting up a member of the Malnosso? Pfft.

... Which is why he's telling Helios, and not somebody who'd be cruel about it.]

There's no question that they're h-horrible. But I-I don't think they're all the same as the scientists.

There has to be a good few people on that side. [ Helios won't be cruel about it because he wants to think there is some hope. He knows that you can't judge an entire group by the actions of one subset of it. ]

It might be good to do so. Perhaps just to keep in contact, it's the people you know sometimes that can make all the difference.

Giles didn't seem particularly convinced by that line of reasoning. But I suppose I am willing to consider the prospect of peaceable negotiation far more than other people.

[Robert sighs a little bit.] I just... wonder if it would be worth it.

[He hopes it would be.]

Ah, yes, well I can imagine why. [ Giles' world is vastly different. Talking was probably the last method of reasoning anyone used to get a point across. ]

You never know until your try, hm? [ Helios will give Robert a reassuring like and a small smile too. ]

His world is so... violent. [Robert says this almost in a sad way.] He claims he wouldn't know what to do with himself on Terra. [Helios, why is your friend so confusing?]

...

And I suppose you're right.

I mean, I'm not generally the optimistic sort, but...

I don't think I would either! No magic or anything like that. And all that...technology. [ He might die in the dramatic I-don't-know-what-to-do way. ]

It helps. Being optimistic I mean.

[This saddens Robert a little bit. He'd been hoping, one day in the maybe-distant future, that Helios could go to Terra with him. Not stay there forever, of course, but... visit awhile. The thought that his friend wouldn't be able to stand his home is a saddening one.]

... You'd really be lost on Terra...?

... I mean, I've adjusted well enough to Luceti. But it's nothing like home... So backwards in nearly everything. [He exhales slowly, almost sadly.] ... I would've hoped that most people would want something better, but...

... I would've wanted you to visit Terra with me... But would you even want to be there?

[Robert doesn't know if he should feel rejected or not.]

Oh. Robert. I-I didn't mean...it like that. I'd love to visit you world. I'd love to visit a lot of people's world actually.

[ Helios might actually put a hand on Robert's shoulder truly a new motion for him because it is, like everything else, clumsily done. ]

I wouldn't mind seeing it at all. I'm just...not very good at the whole technology thing, you know. But I suppose going to your world would be a learning experience. First hand is always best I'd like to say.

[Robert doesn't quite flinch at the hand on his shoulder, but it does make him startle a little. He calms a moment later and blinks almost owlishly at Helios.]

... I would be honoured to show you around, Helios...

... and I would like to see your world too, one day... And other peoples' worlds, as well.

... It would be nice to be able to take people home with me, b-but I would not wish for them to be unable to return to their homes as well...

[ Helios will take his hand away dropping it back to his side almost as quickly as he put it on Robert's shoulder. ]

I would be delighted to see your world, actually. A place without violence...it sounds almost mythological. [ Just a laugh. ]

The no magic policy might be a bit tricky getting used to also.

[Robert finds himself wishing that Helios had allowed the touch just a little longer, but he pushes that away.]

Perhaps in some ways it is, for many people. After all, I thought magic, gods, souls and the like were myths too, but they are just as real to you as true peace is to me... [As sad as that is.]

... And I expect your magic simply wouldn't work on Terra, altogether. Not that I can prove that directly, per se, but considering that you couldn't make your spell work when I drew the circle for it, I'd say that is a fairly accurate indication.

I wonder what other discrepancies might arise...

[Such as, y'know, that curse that Helios has that Robert doesn't know about at all.]

I sometimes wish peace was as simple to achieve as it sounds in your world. I know it's taken quite a long time to make it as far as it has in your world. Working towards peace makes it seem so hard though.

[ Helios looks surprised at that and then thoughtful. It was true what Robert said though, his spell hadn't worked at all and perhaps it did have something to do with Robert's worldly mechanics. ]

It does bring up a good few questions indeed. A place where magic doesn't work...hm.

I wish that it was easier to achieve peace in other worlds. No world should be violent and dangerous if it can help it. [Robert leans back a little, studying Helios' expression.]

... Were I to take evidence of Luceti physics home, it would revolutionize study in my world...

... To think that there are worlds out there where magic, or similar things, really do exist and work, and are for all intents and purposes just part of the physics of the universe... Well, it's quite amazing to contemplate.

... [Thoughtfully:] I wonder if all of that goes for chi and souls and the like, too...

It certainly is. So many possibilities with this shifting technology. You could do so many good things with it, were it used correctly. [ Some bitterness in that statement? You bet there is. ]

Souls and chi, hm? It might. I-I never considered the possibility of not having a soul. [Not having a soul would mean...no coldness, no pain, and no more absence of feeling that was once there when Elise was alive. ]

Indeed. Which I think is the single most bloody frustrating thing about it - it would be fantastic if employed sanely, but... it is not.

[Robert looks thoughtfully down at his fingers.] Well, I know that Mike can't see any chi from me. But I've never conclusively learned if I have a... physically-existing soul or not.

I would say that I do not, though. There has never been any evidence for that sort of thing, on Terra.

No it certainly is not. [ And he hates them for it sometimes. ]

You don't have...a soul? [ Helios' eyes widen at that prospect. He might look away from Robert and down at his own hands. No soul would mean no more pain, no more feeling of this horribly overbearing weight on his shoulders that threatens to consume him at times. It would mean no more cold skin, and the ability to lov-no he can't think like that. Helios will shake his head eyes closing for a few brief moments. Thoughtfully: ]

No soul...

Not as far as I would know... [Robert gnaws his lip gently at Helios' reaction. It seems, for all intents and purposes, negative to Robert, and he obviously doesn't know what that makes Helios feel about his own.

All he knows is that Helios looked away from him when he said that.]

...

I-Is that bad? I mean... it's nothing I can help, I don't think...

[A wary frown flicks across Robert's face. Don't go all Mike on him, Helios.]

Oh! Heaven's no, Robert! It's just...many cultures and beliefs generally view soulless things as being well...not normal I suppose. [ More like evil, or dead. ]

But that's not the point. The point is that your worldly mechanics differ from others and people will just have to acknowledge that. It might take some time, as does most coming to terms with things, but...I do wonder what it would feel like without one. It must feel very...freeing.

[ Helios will purse his lips not saying much after that. The silence will blanket the two of them until one of them decides to talk again. ]

[Helios won't have to wait long.

Robert raises an eyebrow a bit.]

... Freeing?

I have... never felt what it was like to have a soul, so it is simply the usual state of affairs... ... are they burdensome, then, in your world?

[Robert has no idea what kind of nerve he's hitting.]

Ah-well I didn't...that came out wrong. [ Because he's feeling guilt for even thinking that let alone saying it.

That does strike something in Helios and Robert can see by his all too blatant wince. ] N-No, not burdensome. Not at all it's just...the mechanics of things in my world make them-make them tricky t-to handle. [ To have in all honesty. ]

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