VOICE.

[barebacking]

An odd question, I am sure, but I wonder...

I thought of the ghosts and the waters, and the idea that death could be just around the corner. That is that those of us that are just about to slip into that darkness may one day wake up to be choking on our own blood.

Forgive me for such a ... unfortunate image, but my point is ... how many of you have someone who you are close to? How many can say that you have met someone who makes your life worth it all, even if death may be so close? Even if this may all just be a dream?

This need not be romantic, I suppose, but friendship as well.

After all, sometimes it is friendship that can save a life, too, right?

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[mrsarcastic003]

Would you say family counted?

voice;

[barebacking]

Of course, I would.

There is great friendship and love found in family.

[backinakidflash]

Apologies don't really cut it when the image has nothing to do with the question.

[People here have died coughing up blood.]

[barebacking]

Of course, it does.

I do apologize, but at this moment, in my world, I am dying. Time is frozen and ... so the morbid wording is more from my own worries. But so long as I think of those people in my life, I can live another day without fear.

[voice]

[ironface]

I would say that about more than one person, most of which I've never even met, let alone am close to.

[voice]

[barebacking]

I fear you've lost me.

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[solo_patria]

[Have a thoughtful, though not quite so solemn as usual Enjolras on your screen!]

So it can do that. It is thanks to friends, I think, that I am still here on the turtle after things were rough so lately. My...

[What DOES he call Combeferre? The term 'boyfriend' feels so juvenile, and 'lover' is not exactly true. 'Parner' has an ambiguity to it that feels like a lie...]

...the man I love and who loves me was one who saved me here, but you are right that there are others. My other friends who've come here from my world... We died together there and here they've saved me from myself if I can give an example without sounding inane

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[barebacking]

You can indeed give such an example without sounding such, sir.

What warms my heart most is that... you suffered so, even I can tell that much for who would not when dying with friends, but found love here. That is most admirable.

[manofiron]

A friendship can definitely save a life.

[barebacking]

I am happy to hear you agree with me, Tony, but then I had little doubt you would. I am certain you saved many lives with your friendship.

[strategisch]

Yes... yes, I do. There are two... But also many.

[barebacking]

I am most happy to hear that.

It seems as I asked an easy question... I suppose I worry sometimes that there are those that have not felt such things, as was the case in my world. But it seems it is not the case here. Is that not miraculous in and of itself?

[agentx13]

[ Sharon shudders to think of how this person may have lost someone in the past. ]

Do you mean here, or back home?

[barebacking]

It matters not to me.

Does it matter to you?

voice;

[passively]

I have a friend. I took him to a doctor when he asked me to be his friend while bleeding from a stab wound, so I suppose friendship can definitely be lifesaving, sometimes quite literally.

... You could say he did make my life feel worth at least something, as well, if not worth "it all." Friends aren't bad to have.

voice;

[barebacking]

You sound very brave to have been able to act so calmly at such a sight, and I am happy that you were rewarded with friendship, because you should have been.

I agree with you that friends are not bad... no, they are not bad at all.

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[mccallmemaybe]

My best friend saved my life, so yeah, friendship is definitely a lifesaver.

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[barebacking]

And quite literally in your case.

I'd ask what the circumstances were, but I do worry that I'd be being nosy.

voice;

[schwitzen]

I have...or had, my friends and comrades. [For a moment, he thinks of all of the people he'd considered friends in the last three years. Those times are gone now, though. He only has Reiner and Annie now.]

But they're not here. They're back in our own world.

voice;

[barebacking]

Well, it is good that you are not alone where you come from.

Still, I hope you have not made yourself an island here...

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[brokenweapon]

Yeah.

She made it worth everything, every day.

audio;

[barebacking]

Wife?

Or just a lover?

[youjustlivehere]

[Well this was an interesting question. After considering for a few seconds the man nods] Yeah I'd say I have.

[barebacking]

[ Teasingly: ] Even though you are Greed?

[wrathfulkhan]

[HA HA HA friend issues.]

Friendship can lead to mercy where it otherwise may not be extended.

[barebacking]

And isn't that exciting?