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[sleepdarts]

( Ana had spent the first few days holed up in an unused building, heading out when it had gotten dark to get a lay of the land, reading what she could on the phone she'd been given. It had been curious, but certainly more personal than informative )

It looks like my mission failed.
But I'm not the only one who has lost something, as unfortunate as that is.
Are they anything to do with the arrivals here, or is it coincidence?
There is more, I could guess that easily enough. Would I find a complete answer? That I doubt.

Comments

[torrefied]

What exactly do you find incomplete about it?

[sleepdarts]

What do you find complete?
There are gaps.
But I did not expect to fill them. I had done some investigating first.

[torrefied]

Since I'm the one who wrote it and I solicited input from the rest of the city in order to do so, I'd say I find everything about it complete.

If you're going to criticize someone else's work, the least you can do is offer a solid suggestion for improvement - or, failing that, answer a simple question with a direct answer instead of circular nonsense.

[sleepdarts]

( B+ for effort )

The only improvement would be to do the impossible.

[torrefied]

[He should hang up right now. He should walk away ... ]

Elaborate.

[sleepdarts]

( Come child let her make some-
-nah only nice kids get tea )

You would need the gods to be forthcoming.

[torrefied]

The gods are forthcoming, actually. [They're a hell of a lot more direct in their answers than you are. 8|] Just not always about the things you want to know.

[sleepdarts]

Then you cannot change it.

[torrefied]

Then why bother bringing it up? Useless commentary is worse than saying nothing at all.

[sleepdarts]

I'd hoped someone might take a challenge.
Seems I'm just a foolish old woman.

[torrefied]

I can't argue that. Or rather, I can, but I choose not to.