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Who: Apartment O + you? door is open
When: Day 32, evening
Where: Apartment O
What: family dinner...?

[There is a stew bubbling happily over the fire; leaf "platters" and shish-kebabs(? something-chunks on sticks), salad, a somewhat overcooked stirfry, and a gourd filled with fruit chunks in milky liquid are arranged on the kitchen counter.]

Okay, guys, get it while it's hot!

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I don't have to lie about this.

Then what WOULD you call Sabra?

A miserable pit of place governed by sadistic megalomaniacs that I would have loved to leave if leaving had entailed being half a day later.

'Half a day later'?

Give or take.

We finally made our move against the ones that governed there. Supposedly, it was successful.

And it obviously messed you up a lot...

In some versions, not everyone survived.

Yeah, I get that. It was traumatic. You're proving MY point.

Would you pay attention? What I'm trying to say is that in some versions, we won. If the gods here hadn't intervened, I would have gotten what I went for in the first place.

How do you know you're from that version?

Because something like death never stopped me before. If there wasn't something getting in the way, I would have had it for sure. I knew where-

[He cuts himself off midway, before the tension in his voice gets worked up the way it's threatening to.]

The point is, I'm not some scared little kid running away from my past. I'm mad.

You can't be mad forever.

[Watch me. :|]

I don't have to be. As long as I hold onto what needs keeping.

What's that, then?

My goal.

You're dead now. It's too late.

And? That doesn't mean I'm going to roll over and accept that there's nothing we can do.

Except...there isn't?

Just watch me.

Okay, you do that.

I will.

If you're done eating, you can leave now.

I came to spend time with Maya.

You spent time with her already.

Only a few minutes, jeeze.

If you want to stay as a guest in someone's apartment, you should probably learn how to behave like a guest in someone's apartment.