Forty-third Spell

[courageous_wit]

I like it when things are like this... Not the cold and snow, of course, but the peace. When we're allowed time to just go day by day living as normally as we can separated from our worlds. I wish it could be this way all the time, that we didn't have to worry that the castle would thrust us into some horrible world on a whim.

When it's like this, I find that I enjoy my life here. Is that a strange thing to say?

Comments

dictated ad infinitum.

[kethedammit]

Ain't nothing strange to want things quiet and calm.

yes that

[courageous_wit]

The strange bit is liking this place in any way.

[kethedammit]

A mite bit. Ain't heaven, but I can think of worse places.

[courageous_wit]

So could I.

[whichwayyoulean]

I think pretty much anyone would enjoy their lives when they're not being tortured by a magical castle.

[courageous_wit]

Or in the middle of a war.

[whichwayyoulean]

...Well, yeah. That too.

You okay?

[courageous_wit]

I've had to do a bit of relationship counseling, but otherwise I'm all right.

[whichwayyoulean]

Fooooor you or someone else?

[whistles_the_blues]

There are much worse places to be than here.

[courageous_wit]

True, but it's still strange to enjoy being here.

[whistles_the_blues]

Not when it's better than the alternative.

[courageous_wit]

Is your home world really that bad? I know that Paradisa is much better for a lot of people...

;dictated

[fluthlu]

I wouldn't say that it was strange at all. There are a great many residents who find this lifestyle preferably to the one they left - myself included, I'm almost appalled at times to say.

;dictated

[courageous_wit]

Yes, I know this is better for a lot of people...

[fluthlu]

Certainly. If you don't mind my asking, would you consider yourself one of them?

[courageous_wit]

I wouldn't say that things are happy in my world at the moment, but my friends and I were doing something important. I do need to go back one day and help them.

Dictated

[patching_up]

I don't think that's strange at all. When things are peaceful, and when the castle isn't... changing my memories o-or anything like that, this place is much nicer than my old home.

It's not the same, but I don't always mind it here.

Dictated

[courageous_wit]

Yes, I think that's the best way to phrase it. I don't always mind it here, either.

Dictated

[patching_up]

Have you been here for a long time?

I've only been living in the castle for about a month, so... even if it seems nice sometimes, it's kinda hard for me to say entirely how I feel about it.

Dictated

[courageous_wit]

It's been a year and eight months now.

[brohoof]

There was a time real fuckin' briefly that I thought I could enjoy being here. Back when all my friends were here. Then I realized it brought us all from god damn different points of our timeline.

If they were all here and we were all from the same time, I'd consider it better than what we have to deal with back home. Otherwise no, this place is shit.

[courageous_wit]

I suppose we all see the castle in different ways.

[brohoof]

So many people here, it's hard not to have a vast array of different opinions. I mean you could simplify it and just group people in the 'Likes being here' and 'This castle can fuck off' categories, but where's the fun in simplifying?

[courageous_wit]

I never really thought to group people based on their opinions of the castle. Usually I ask them what world they're from, how long they've been here, if they have anyone else from their world with them, things like that.