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[maipokerface]

[Console, whatever. Sure she got the run down on the thing but Mai's pretty much been ignoring it for the past day. She hasn't even bothered to really look on the network itself even if she has no intention of making an entry to it.

Now she's bothering though, mainly because she just wants to ask:]

So explain this war business to me again. Or at least try to convince me why I should care. Because right now? I really can't find much inside to say I should.

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[sizzle]

[ He can safely say that Mai was probably one of the last people he expected to see here. ]

... Mai?!

[ Considering their last encounter with each other (from his time point), he's not expecting this conversation to go well. At all. ]

[solo_patria]

Ah, well, Mademoiselle, as it was explained to me, we have been brought here to stop this evil before it spreads to our homes. I did believe the woman who told us such, but I suppose that it IS up to you whether or not that is true The enemy we fight against...he does seem to posses that power.

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[whitelotustile]

Well, given that this spirit seems intent on destroying the place we're currently living, and may move on to our own world, that seems like a good reason to find a solution now.

Though, I admit I haven't given much thought as to how to do it.

[manofiron]

That is the perfect attitude to take. I approve.

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[goodanswer]

We can't go home until it's over.

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[maipokerface]

And what if I don't care about going back.

[maipokerface]

Glad I have your approval then, I guess. So that's not a common sentiment, hm?

[Not that she thought it would be, of course. Most people seemed to be all for war.]

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[maipokerface]

[Brief, brief surprise.]

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[maipokerface]

[Then the teen merges back expertly into that bland expression of hers.]

Good, we're both here.

[The tone denotes it's hardly a good thing at all. Her voice shifts from sardonic sarcasm to seriousness easily.]

So is it just you then?

[maipokerface]

Have you ran into him yourself?

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[maipokerface]

Then what have you been thinking about.

[He was a General at one point, wasn't he?]

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[whitelotustile]

Oh, making a living. Learning about this place. There was also an incident with a dragon a couple of weeks ago that offered some information about the spirit realm of this place. But this is a tricky matter. This spirit doesn't like to act directly: it prefers to influence others. Such as infecting the dragon.

[solo_patria]

Yes, actually. Last summer. He is...a being of shadows and manipulation, among other things. The parts of him that I saw lead me to believe that it will take...quite a few forms of fighting to defeat him.

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[superoverachiever]

Well, if we don't win, literally everyone might die.

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[withthebrotherhood]

[He's been dealing with this screwy world long enough that he no longer really worries about being green in public, so Toad makes no attempt to ease her into talking to him.]

See, that's preeeetty much what I said, and I don't think anybody even cares that much. Like... they just grab us at random and they get enough suckers to handle the hero biz and the rest of us can chill. I recommend popcorn. And a roof.

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[soulstoker]

Going along with all this seems like the fastest way to get back home, so that's why I care at least. [Seriously, she just finished getting out of a war in her own world, why'd she have to get tossed into another one!!]

[manofiron]

From what I've seen, it's like Stockholm syndrome central here. I mean, sure, propaganda says there's some big bad monster out there ready to eat the universe or whatever, but other than a few calls of heavy breathing, it hasn't done much.

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[definingfuture]

Because the bad guys won't stop bothering us until we win? Something like that. It's not so much the war as the people involved. They don't deserve it.

[maipokerface]

You mean he works from the shadows? Like political sorts of things?

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[maipokerface]

Dragons? Here?

[A beat, then:]

How did it infect the dragon.

[maipokerface]

So it's mostly people saying you should all be afraid of him or that he's going to devour the world.

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[maipokerface]

Alright. So how do you know that's going to actually happen.

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[maipokerface]

I'm all for watching the rest of them be idiots if they want to, sure. I'm not doing anything anyhow.

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[maipokerface]

So what if you don't really care about going home then?

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[maipokerface]

That much I can understand. [And even somewhat sympathize with.]

So tell me why I should care about what they do and don't deserve then. They aren't exactly my family or friends or anything.