No one. There was never any life on my planet. [She's from Pluto, though it's not called that anymore so she doesn't know.] The closest I've been is the First House. It was once a living planet, thousands of years ago, but it has flipped since. There are still living creatures on it, but it can't sustain life like this.
[The idea of someone coming from a planet that was just dead from the start hadn't even occurred to him, but he makes a little, interested-sounding noise.]
Oh... Wow. So there's no plants or animals or anything like that? Only people?
[He is definitely a curious lad, and seems genuinely interested in her funky, funky world with its underground society and lack of native plants and animals.]
I guess it's that way for a lot of people, right? You're most comfortable where you spend the most time. [He spreads his hands out, indicating the forest.] Nice places still aren't as good as they could be if nothing about them feels like home, right?
I mentioned to you I was no longer entirely human. I prefer not to. . . advertise this, as much. I shed my humanity and became something else, but as a result I can never return home.
You can't create something from nothing, huh? [A little, understanding hum.] For everything a person gains, they'll lose something else. I'm guessing it was worth it, though?
[But she sounds a little wistful, or maybe confused? That is right, isn't it? It feels like there's something wrong about what he just said, but she can't quite put her finger on it. She made the trade out of determination, as he said, so then why. . .]
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Oh... Wow. So there's no plants or animals or anything like that? Only people?
[SHE COMES FROM THE PLANET OF HIS NIGHTMARES.]
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So you guys have a sky then, right? [Since SOME PEOPLE here apparently DON'T.]
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Ah! So that's why the light from the sun bothers you a little, yeah? You must not see a lot of it.
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[But she can take his cues - ]
It's my home, all I've ever known. It is very dear to me, even if it is rather desolate.
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I guess it's that way for a lot of people, right? You're most comfortable where you spend the most time. [He spreads his hands out, indicating the forest.] Nice places still aren't as good as they could be if nothing about them feels like home, right?
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[. . .]
I mentioned to you I was no longer entirely human. I prefer not to. . . advertise this, as much. I shed my humanity and became something else, but as a result I can never return home.
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Eh? Really? Like, you're banished or something...? Or you just can't live out there anymore, with what you are now?
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He folds his hands behind his back, turning in a little circle on the moss.]
Are you cursed, then? Or is it some type of curse?
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I suppose you could look at it that way. As a form of existence, there's power, and then there's the price.
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. . . No. But it was necessary.
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Mm... Not many people would still choose to make a trade like that, I think. You're pretty determined, huh?
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[But she sounds a little wistful, or maybe confused? That is right, isn't it? It feels like there's something wrong about what he just said, but she can't quite put her finger on it. She made the trade out of determination, as he said, so then why. . .]
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...Is there a "but" there, or something else?
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Hey, you'll tell me if I say something that bothers you, right?
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[She's just confused, but not troubled.]
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Mm, okay! Thanks. It's a little harder for me to tell how people feel like this.