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[repelled]

[the video comes on in his own suite, very evidently in the fire sector by the blue glows flickering in through the open windows. dressed in simple and casual - if nice - city clothing, chase is watching the video feed with a bored expression, one gloved hand supporting his chin, the other wrapped idly around a cup of tea on the desk.]

Aren't there just so many ... interesting people here, now. [the significant pause indicating that 'interesting' was a few dictionaries away from the word he probably intended to use.] And so many so young, too.

[there's a flicker of a sneer there.]

I'm sure everyone's had their fair share of time trying to figure out precisely what this place is and how you got here, but undoubtedly we've all heard the suggestion that this is, in one way or another, the afterlife. Not an idea I'm entirely fond of, but without any evidence otherwise, I'm forced to consider it a possibility. [very grudgingly, if his tone is anything to go by.]

So - a question. How many of you actually remember dying before your arrival here? A simple yes or no is enough, unless you had a particularly interesting death, in which case feel free to elaborate.

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[harthad_uluithiad]

[Good luck ever getting a simple yes or no from Sam.]

I...I don't know if it was dying exactly or not, but I was, well, I suppose I was near drownded, at least that's what I remember last, is going under the water and everything starting to go dark. I remember thinking it was the end and then I woke up here, instead.

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[repelled]

That does sound like dying, yes. Though there's always the chance you were just very nearly dead. Too vague for a direct answer.

[he's giving sam a careful, considering look.]

Or was that happening when you arrived here?

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[harthad_uluithiad]

What? No - no. This was before. Back - back where I came from.

[He's learned by now that saying Middle-earth means nothing to anybody here. He shrugs, noncommittal.]

It certainly felt that way. But I suppose there's no way to really know one way or the other.

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[repelled]

No, indeed. Unless by chance someone else you know shows up, elated to find you alive instead of dead and buried or burned.

wow the actual latest, I am sorry

[harthad_uluithiad]

[Sam hesitates, considering.]

W-well, the only other one here who knows me is Mr. Frodo, and he doesn't even remember anything much past Weathertop and the Riders. S'pose we were both fair elated to find each other, though.

it's cool!

[repelled]

[he pauses for a moment before speaking again.]

How fortunate for you, then. That at least you did find someone, even if they couldn't give you answers - but you remember something they don't?