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[It takes him all day to muster himself out of his bed to make this post in the dormitory levels. Had he not been slammed with a message about his new "job", he would have kindly stayed in his room for a day or two just to... he wasn't even sure what the right word was. He didn't need to relax. He needed to detox. His journey home had been short, but he hoped and prayed it was just a dream. Only a dream, please just let it be that. But he'd seen the barren landscape, inhaled the putrid, acidic smell of miasma leaking out of every crack and crevice, seas of purple mud and poison all that remained of his world.

Of course he wanted it to be a dream.

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Two questions. Feel free to answer or not.

First: How many of you have been back home? As in: how many have returned to what used to be their home, only to come back? What did you see, and did it... feel real?

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Second: What are we left with if the worlds we all know are really gone? Is it just us, this Tower, countless years and a few grim expectations?

I really am starting to wonder.

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What you experienced is most likely a shock factor.

Possibly. I'm not sure what to think.

So you believe that it was all a reality, then?

I, just as most others here, would like to think it some trick, certainly. But I know it to be reality, yes.

You sound so certain. Why?

Nothing and no one could have recreated the world I returned to.

[It was Hell, after all. Destroying Hell is absurd enough, but who could make a copy of it just to trick him?]

...I see. So it was that significant.

Do you think there was a point? Bringing you back to your world just to see it like that?

I could believe it to be an error, however, I would be more inclined to think the administrators believe they can 'break' us with it.

Break, huh?

So... just something to shake us up, huh. Maybe make us doubt ourselves, take away hope. Not to mention making us open to believing the stories that they try to tell us.

That's it exactly. To make us content in staying here and accepting their authority. Even appreciating 'all they've done for us'.

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