Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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It's one thing for us to know. It's another for you to get to let it out.

@Stratocracy

*Leans back and puts my hands behind my head*
No, won't help. Not like you think. I've just felt one thing for a long time.

Myriad Reality

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Once again, you fail to agree with yourself. So I know it’s the mask talking to me.
*Takes another sip*
But I don’t expect you to open up so easily. Not after you’ve waited this long. But what I will say is, when have you gotten a chance to truly talk about it? All the ways you were wronged? You never really got a chance to let the weight off your shoulders before, have you?

@Stratocracy

*Rolls my eyes*
You all know. My best days had weight on me. Once the last bit of good dies, that pain will be all that's left. I hope so.

Myriad Reality

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And what did you ever get a chance to do to remedy it? The wounds it caused, were left opened. Never dressed. Allowed to fester.

@Stratocracy

I want to earn each bit of it. Kill all good in me. Make it who I am, in and out.

Myriad Reality

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Because you’ve had too much for too long. If I went and asked you when it all first started, I would bet the numbness hadn’t set in yet. None of that went away. You just got used to it, and you never deserved to have to.

@Stratocracy

*Scoffs*
Sure I did. That's the whole point.

Myriad Reality

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What I’m saying is, that you’ve been soaked in the pain for so long that you’re convinced it’s no longer there. But the fact that it’s there is the whole reason you feel numb to begin with. But that is okay, because it can still go away.

@Stratocracy

I wish there was pain. Pain would be great. Guilt, sad, all of those. I don't care.

Myriad Reality

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Numbness isn’t absence of pain, you know. It just means you don’t feel it. But it’s still there.

@Stratocracy

Word goop. Just go away if you won't make sense.

Myriad Reality

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A curse because it hurts.

@Stratocracy

I wish it hurt. It's numb.

Myriad Reality

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If that were true, we wouldn’t be here.
*Leans forward*
You hurt so bad that your violence is a way of forcing people to end your pain the only way you believe is possible. But that’s just not it.

@Stratocracy

If I could die, they would have done it. This is my curse.

Myriad Reality

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I know you don’t care about the violence. But no one’s pain matters to you. Not even a little bit. At least, no one else’s.

@Stratocracy

I don't feel pain. There's no such thing.

Myriad Reality

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I didn’t say it. I’m simply conveying what I’ve been told. You’re not the only you here, but you sure act like this is the truth you want*
*Takes a sip from it instead*

@Stratocracy

*The hot chocolate is rich and bold, but a little bit salty*
It is the truth. I'll make sure your sis dies down there, and your friend up there.