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[spiritwalks]

That's up to you

You can't avoid the consequences of that timeline anymore. But you're not doomed to live it, Anakin

[facultative]

One day we're all going to choose to go back.

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Something you researched?

[facultative]

Something I saw.

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What do you mean? Like a vision?

[facultative]

No.

She said it was calling her back and she had to go.

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We all someday shift back into our true forms and return to Mariana, that's true

But we've been reincarnated here. There's no returning to what we once were

[facultative]

Then why does he remember it.

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People were shedding skin and turning into different versions of themselves back in January

I think it may be something similar to that, just more unique to us Sleepers

[facultative]

He still brought back what happened here. We're not cut off.

[spiritwalks]

Nobody is cut off

Pthumerians are powerful, eonic beings. We had similar entities in my original world. One granted memories from alternate timelines. Historians can't even agree on how the River Wars ended, because a single survivor could remember *multiple* versions. Each of those versions were valid and real to the people who experienced them

The reality Obi-Wan knows is gruesome. Your life must bear the ripples of that reality, because your fates are so intertwined. But ripples aren't the same as reflections or currents. You're your own man, on your own trajectory from here on out

All of those things can be true. I think he knows that too

[facultative]

If it happened to him it can happen to me. I don't want to become him but it's the very next thing I do.

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Maybe it does happen. Maybe you'll wake up one morning, dust the membrane off of yourself, and rise with those memories.

What would you do then?

[facultative]

I don't know. I just wanted to save her.

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Would she want you to give up on living?

[facultative]

I don't know! I keep getting everything wrong.

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It's starting to sound like
you don't think you deserve a future, Anakin

Here *or* there

[facultative]

No one ever gets what they deserve.

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We can only control so much of what happens to us, that's true

[facultative]

You've just been lucky enough to always know you're free.

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Free from what?

[facultative]

[And he's done here so unfortunately Vyng will get no reply from Anakin.]

[spiritwalks]

[That's fine. He doesn't take it personally. Text messaging isn't Vyng's strong suit. Lack of non-verbal cues doesn't do him any favors.]



[After about a day, he follows up with:]

It's natural to feel overwhelmed in your shoes. I think anybody with a heart would

If you ever want a hot meal, a dry place to bunk, or even just a hug or something...you know where to find me. Our door is always open, man 💜🍵🤝