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[quackery]

that makes sense

i'm sorry about ellie :( what was jim like? i don't think i ever got to know him

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it's okay, i'm glad she wasn't here for all this

[She doesn't even know how Ellie would have taken it.]

he was kind of a hot mess to be honest but he was a good guy. he was closer to ellie than me and he was also good to her even if could be a jerk to everyone else. and he made sure we had the spaceship up and running, so that was nice of him

[quackery]

[promptly ignores every bad thing]

he sounds like a good person. i'm glad you got to stay with someone like him

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[never change, ahiru]

yeah i'm glad, too, i miss him a little bit, but i think he's better off at home

[quackery]

yeah

i think one of the best things about being here is getting to meet so many people i never would have had the chance to otherwise

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that's definitely the best part, yeah

[gross]

[quackery]

good enough that it's worth having to go through the bad things, or at least i think so

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[That actually makes her stop and think.

Is it worth it? Even after everything that's happened, even with how awful she feels?

A few months ago she just wanted to go home and forget Exsilium the way she's sure they do, but now... now she's not so sure.]

yeah, i think they're worth it

[quackery]

think, not know?

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okay, okay, some of them are definitely worth it

[quackery]

haha i was just curious, not trying to get you to agree!

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i know, but you're right. no matter what happens it'll be worth it for some of the people i've had a chance to meet

[right?]

[quackery]

would you tell me about them

[It'll be a good way to cheer Steph up, she thinks.]

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[hahahahaha...]

ellie, of course. and the other ellie, have you met her? she's a great kid, tough and smart and has a terrible sense of humour, she's pretty much my little sister at this point. and robin, he's from my world, but where i'm from he's about ten years older than me, so it's different getting to know him when he's young. vanadi, he was one of the first people i really befriended here, and he was always a sweetheart, i love him a lot.

[And now he's gone, and she can't-- she can't think about it, not when she knows how much he didn't want to go home.

She just keeps praying his gone to the world he visited before Exsilium, with his hummingbird for a soul.]

collette.

[Even though that hurts so much right now.]

and, um. saul.

[There are others, she loves Jesse and Lisbeth, and Donny, Peter , Ella, Isaac, and Allison are all good friends, but those are the ones that really make it worth dealing with anything Exsilium can throw at her.]

[quackery]

oh i didn't know there was another ellie! but she seems nice. i don't know robin or vanadi but collette is one of my best friends here so nice choice :) and saul is nice even if he's weird

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she's about 14 and swears a lot, so you'll probably know her if you ever meet her. i'm rooming with her and joel, who's from her world.

why do you think saul's weird?

[Saul is kind of weird, but that comment mind her smile so she wants to hear Ahiru's reasoning.]

[quackery]

why does she swear so much if she's that young

well

when we first met we made a bet on something and i lost but before i could pay him back i got sent to the world i was in before this one for like two months, and when i came back to exsilium he told me he was going to charge me interest for the time i was gone

he's weird

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why not?

[Ahiru you are asking the wrong person this question.]

i'm sure he was just teasing, he does that a lot

[quackery]

because most younger kids don't??

i know he was but that's what makes him weird

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me and my friends swore a lot when we were 14

i'm gonna tell him you called him weird

[quackery]

really??

he already knows and i'm pretty sure he doesn't care. he tried to tell me he was a unicorn once

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yup

he IS a unicorn. didn't you believe him?

[quackery]

yeah he's a unicorn and i'm a talking bird

[ :') ]

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really? i never knew! you're pretty cute for a talking bird

[Steph behave.]

[quackery]

yeah i'm surprised you never notiwait what