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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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[Hey, man, to each their own. If you really wanted to literally smell hearts...]

So anything that has a heart, you can tell apart.

And when you went to your world... I guess you couldn't distinguish it like you should have been able to?

Yes.

[Well, that's what it comes down to anyways.]

The scent of it was different. I know what a dead world feels like.

[Or a dieing one anyways, but it's close enough to make the leap.]

Could you describe it?

...

If that isn't asking too much, of course.

[He's simply curious.]

Not on here.

[Because well... it's kind of really hard to put into words, never mind text.]

I see.

[Not gonna push it. He knows it's hard enough to describe his own experience. So instead, he drops another question:]

Do you think there's any reason to send us back there? Any reason we ourselves didn't die?

No clue. But even if I had a theory, I wouldn't discuss it on here.

[Because he's that paranoid.]

You're worried about what might come because of it?

Yes. A lot of people are too careless with the amount of information they leave on here.

No kidding.

It's like people forget the fact that there's more malcontents than just the Administrators keeping track of things.

Sometimes they forget even about latter.

Last I checked, there was very little we could do about the latter anyways.

Not that that's an excuse to be foolish with your words.

We can censor ourselves. They know enough already without us having to add to it.

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