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[Exploring and ninja-ing around is turning up a whole lot of dead ends and questions with no answers, so now Raphael is going to try his last resort.

Conversing with strangers.

Making sure he has his voice only function on (pretending that little SNAFU with it in his earlier conversation didn't happen) he reluctantly addresses his fellow...strand-ees.]

Okay, seriously. How many of you people actually buy that "you are in the in-between" story?

[the mystic new-age voice for the quote helps set the atmosphere, yes it is necessary]

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[Before this post, Raphael will be swimming around in the Water Sector, trying to keep as hidden as possible but needing to surface to breathe and also sneak back up onto the docks occasionally when he can't cross sections in water. He's a stealthy little bugger, so the average Joe might miss him, but anybody with serious training or extra-sharp senses might find him.

...or you might catch him when he's losing his temper and angrily kicking over a barrel after talking to yet another tree-hugging native yokel, whatever.]

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Okay well the point here is that it kind of does matter. See, if this isn't where dead people go, then that means you are probably not dead.

My memories disagree with your theory. [Bleeding out on a cold floor isn't the kind of thing you forget.]

Perhaps we all went adrift in the place in-between and they rescued us. Is that not possible?

No! Because the 'in-between' part is the part I have a problem with. It's not real! It's the stuff fake psychics put on their signs in their shop windows so you go inside and spend fifty bucks to have them tell you stuff you already know!

You do not think there can possibly be anything outside of your experience?

Not in stuff that's not real.

How do you define what is real and what is not?

I define it by whether or not it exists, lady.

I am a man. And perhaps you should consider the benefits of having a more open mind.

[...what seriously

whoa

well that just took all the wind out of raphael's sails]

Uh. Sorry, my bad.

It's quite all right. [It's actually kind of funny.]

[well now his engine's lost all his steam]

...whatever.

I'm still not dead. I'd know if I died.

I am sure you would know best on that score. [He isn't going to doubt his experience! That would be hypocritical.]

But if you do not believe them, where do you think we are? [He is really curious, actually.]

Um, held prisoner on an island. [Okay so he's wised up to the fact that he's on a turtle now, but still...trying to wrap his head around it.]

And how is it that we are from such different times and different places?

Because it's a great big world and we're all just a small grain of sand on the beach, I dunno.

But I have met people who say that my country is called France in their land. In mine, it is Terre d'Ange.

Yeah I know roughly jack about France, so I dunno what you're talking about.

Still, there is a country called France and not Terre d'Ange, is it not so?

Yeah, there's a France, but I dunno if there's a country called 'Terry de Ange' or whatever.

If there is a France, there cannot be a Terre d'Ange. They occupy the same place.

Okay, so it's the same country and people call it different names. Pretty sure that's what happens in other languages.

Yet when I spoke with the French they had no knowledge of such a name.

Maybe they're crazy.

Your commitment to your beliefs is impressive.

Yeah thanks, I get that all the time.

[WHATEVER. Just because he's not buying this afterlife, multi-dimensional hub bs.]

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