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[chokuto]

UN: 火
𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓 / 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎 / 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 / 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 / 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐖
𝟖♣ ( 𝑬𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝑳𝑼𝑩𝑺 )

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[mensrea]

How long have you been gone? Do you know?

[chokuto]

Not with certainty. It was a few months in the last dimension, and now a few months here. Perhaps half a year.

And I've changed, too. That's something I have to consider. I don't know if I should return, even if I have the opportunity.

[mensrea]

Do you want to return?

[That, more than anything, feels like the key question.]

[chokuto]

I'm not sure anymore.

Though I wouldn't choose to stay here. It seems there's a risk of losing one's sense of identity, or at least integrity of mind, the longer they live in this dimension.

[mensrea]

Hey, third time's the charm, right? Maybe the next dimension you're dragged off to will be an actual paradise.

[Not that either of them are likely to actually believe that.]

[chokuto]

I'm not planning to let that happen.

From what we've seen, this place would also prefer to keep us here.

[A downer of a subject...]

But you want to return for your father, don't you?

[mensrea]

Even without my dad in the picture, I'd still want to go back. I don't belong here.

[Though, can he say he still belongs in Beacon Hills?]

How exactly do you "plan" on preventing more interdimensional travel?

[chokuto]

I understand. I doubt many of us do.

[Except the hos... and the thots...]

I told you that I have the ability to travel dimensions. If I can find a way to access that ability, then it will be possible. The force that holds us here is not infallible. Likely, it will come down to a better understanding the suits that brand us, given the nature of their influence.

[mensrea]

I want to believe that. The "infallible" thing. But if this place can kidnap and then seal the power of GODS–and we're talking MANY people who are allegedly gods, SIMULTANEOUSLY... I don't know.

The suits might be the key, though. If we can figure out how to remove them, maybe you'll be able to access your ability again.

[chokuto]

I don't consider gods to be all-powerful, especially if they are self-proclaimed, though I can see your point.

[in this house we kill god]

That's how I feel as well. However, it seems people have attempted to remove them through more conventional means [like?? surgery??] so I expect it won't be so easy.

Anyway, was there anything else you wanted to know?

[mensrea]

[Something uncomfortably bitter settles in his stomach as he rereads that declaration. "I don't consider gods to be all-powerful..." Spoken like someone who actually has power. Stiles carefully puts those feelings aside.

The question seems to him like an indication that Sasuke is gently ending the conversation, so the American teen decides to stop the interrogation.]

I'm good. If I learn anything useful, I'll let you know. Stop by anytime you feel like it, dude.

[chokuto]

[In reality, he'd only wanted to turn the topic away from such a negative place — but in turn also takes that response as a dismissal.]

All right. Let me know if anything changes.