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[Backdated to the fifth because Rin is a speedy traveler and that's how I do]

[Maybe she doesn't quite realize the journal is recording yet, maybe she just can't help it. Either way the book records a soft, drawn-out hiss from Rin, and then a contented little noise. The page is damp, all that humidity, and yes, there's the soft sound of water splashing picked up from the surroundings too!]

Mm... nothing beats hotsprings after you've been traveling. [She sounds so relaxed.]

Anyway. I've been thinking lately. You know, about all these castle revelations and things... and people coming back from world changes... an idea I had a long time ago, actually. What if we're not actually the original people we think we are? Like, what if we're all copies. Like writing out one scroll on another, you know? So we, our original selves, are still at home doing our thing, not even missed, and besides that we're here.

[She actually sounds just really throaty and indolent as she says all this, not upset.] What if you didn't have a home to go to? What if your home wasn't yours, and you, the you that you reading this were copied from... what if they were still there? If they didn't even need you at home. You were just excess.

If you didn't have your job and duties to do at home, because you were already there. Do you think you'd join forces with them? Would you kill them and take their place? For some people it could be like freedom too. [A sigh.]

Also, wouldn't it be interesting to have a world change where it didn't go like normal, and all the humans were changed into not-humans instead of not-humans being changed into human beings?

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They are friends with the small purple dragon, are they not? [Spike will never stop weirding her out. Dragons aren't supposed to be cute and cuddly.]

It would be an experience, to say the least.

[Wait, wait, wait, wait.]

The dragon?

Ah, you have not met him. It was quite startling for me as well, I assure you. But none of the dragons here are as I knew them in Middle Earth.

[WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT.]

You knew dragons in Middle Earth?

[Oh. Yeah, Rin probably hasn't heard about this because it's not exactly fun story times. She kind of forgot that.]

I knew of them. I would not be here had I had met them personally, like as not.

... [Rin looks over at her.]

That bad, huh.

Many of my people perished in the fires of those days. At worst, a dragon was a great foe, a servant of the first Dark Lord. At best, it was a volatile creature, violent and prone to toying with its prey before devouring it.

[And here Krasus is one of her best friends. Funny how that works.]

[Silence for a moment, as Rin thinks that over. How terrifying and awful...]

... It's funny how things can be so different from what we know here. I never thought demons would be nice, you know...? But Crowley's one of my good friends. I guess when you have all kinds of universes to pick from you can find anything.

It should not surprise me, I suppose, given all I have heard of elves from other worlds.

[A small smile, and then she lifts a hand, tapping her palm down against the surface of the water.]

Do you like it?

The water is pleasant enough, as is the company. [She smiles in Rin's direction.]

[Rin grins a little more freely, leaning against the lip of the bath.]

It's like a little bit of home here. A nice bit.

You have told me little of your home.

... It's hard to know where to start talking about it, I guess. It's weird to look back at it now. [She's a different person.]