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"I’m uh, I’m a biographer by trade. You wouldn’t know my name but I’ve almost certainly ghost-written something that you’ve read and this— This seems like um, this seems like a story worth telling well."

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@ ben

[onlyhope]

Still with us?

[7edacted]

It seems like it. Apparently I need more good deeds before I'm allowed to go home.

[That is, assuming, where people are sent when they disappear from the train.]

It's good to hear from you, Obi Wan.

[onlyhope]

I've begun to wonder if some simply choose not to leave.

[7edacted]

Perhaps for some. There's still so much I have to do at home, though.

[She's become quite anxious ever since her memories were recovered. Maybe it's just the loss of time that's getting to her, or the personal reminder of what she did to her friends.]

[onlyhope]

I sense you are more worried about it now than before.

[7edacted]

Indeed.

I'm sure you have some questions about what it was that you saw of my memories. The story is... complicated.

[The words are hard to type, the shame of her greatest secrets revealed by the previous traincar.]

[onlyhope]

You were protecting them, weren't you?

[7edacted]

I'd like to think so.

I wanted them to be happy again. While I fixed things, they could be happy.

[onlyhope]

Why did you believe you had to do it alone?

[7edacted]

Because I couldn't stand to watch them suffer any longer.

It's been ten years since then. I check up on them, you know. They've started families. Fallen in love.

If you could offer your loved ones ten years of peace, wouldn't you?

[onlyhope]

I would.

But from that perspective, it hardly seems complicated at all.