[E-mail: Nova]

[a_wrong_turn]

[While she's out the next day! Doing some "shopping," which means hunting to get some more raw meat to keep in his basement.]

You make any progress on learning people's names yet?

Comments

[a_wrong_turn]

Just after the war. I'm going to ditch being a hunter, so I shouldn't rely too much on it.

[taking_names]

Do you know what you're going to be instead?

[a_wrong_turn]

I'm thinking rogue.

[taking_names]

What kind of rogue?

[a_wrong_turn]

The kill shit kind!

[taking_names]

I guess that would work!

[a_wrong_turn]

I don't think I'd be good as a talky rogue and I definitely wouldn't be good as a sneaky rogue.

But fast and killy? I can do fast and killy.

[taking_names]

I guess you'd probably be really fast and really killy.

[a_wrong_turn]

Probably so.

But being able to lie really well would be kinda handy too, to cover up what I am...

[taking_names]

Yes, it would be good to be a little sneaky, even if you're not the sneaky kind.

[a_wrong_turn]

Yeah.

What're you gonna do?

[taking_names]

Discover the secret to eternal life.

Except for real this time.

[a_wrong_turn]

Uhhhhh. Sounds like it'll involve math?

[taking_names]

And possibly a lifetime of obsessive study for even a slim chance.

That's sort of the catch...

Subsequently I haven't figured out the details yet.

[a_wrong_turn]

I'd be kind of scared if you did.

Are you gonna become an alchemist again? Seems like that'd help.

[taking_names]

I'm already an alchemist.

I got my powers back when I met my player.

[a_wrong_turn]

Ohhh. Uh, that's probably good.

You gonna stick with that?

[taking_names]

I don't know.

I could do anything...

I never told you about my epiphany, did I?

[a_wrong_turn]

What epiphany?

[taking_names]

I realized that my old life wasn't real.

I mean... I already knew it.

But I've realized it properly now.

[a_wrong_turn]

Yeah...

Uh, is that hard for you?

[taking_names]

Well, no, I mean it's like...

It felt as if I woke up one day and my life turned out to be a lie that fell apart more and more as time passed. And that was really difficult to live with.

But that isn't what happened. That day was when I started existing, not when I lost who I was.

So that changes a lot of things.

[a_wrong_turn]

Oh, oh, I get you!

So now it's like you get a chance to do everything for the first time, instead of everything sucking?

[She's not the most, uh, deep.]

[taking_names]

Exactly!

[c-close enough]

It's sort of like a new start instead of a humiliating ending.

[a_wrong_turn]

That's a good way to think of it!

[And he's not gonna keep looking for revenge. Even better. She assumes so, anyways.]

What else do you wanna do with your new lease on life?