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[20thcentury]

[Today, Jenny is sitting in the lobby, idly smoking as she flips through the journal.

After a moment, she huffs a bit and dictates to the pages.]

Not that I wish any sort of trauma on you lot, but it's a little mundane here, isn't it? When he was still here, Midnighter mentioned running out of things to do. [Or, probably more accurately, faces to pummel.] At the time I reckoned he just wasn't trying hard enough.

[She pauses, the sound of a pen tapping on the pages; she is preparing to write up some filters. When she continues speaking, it's in a more thoughtful tone, more serious.]

Is there a reason the castle's pulled us here? Obviously it feeds on us. Obviously. But specific people who are suited to specific tasks back in their world ... is there a point to bringing us here if we've got nothing to do here, no real purpose?

Or is it the potential malaise from being idle that makes us so important? Does our importance to the castle lie in the castle's unimportance to us?

[Cesare]
I've met your sister. She's a very curious little thing, isn't she?

[Kate]
You lot are back from your little holiday, yeah?

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[lord_wizard]

The trauma will manifest itself eventually.

But to answer you question, yes, I think there might be another reason we're here.

[20thcentury]

Really? The most traumatic event I've been exposed to has been lounging on a cruise ship for a week.

[Of course there was that incident where folks were trapped in a book or whatever, but she wasn't involved in that except peripherally ...]

And what's your theory, sunbeam?

[hullo_sweetie]

I've asked myself that very question several times now. I suppose I don't have an answer. Other then using us as a food source, I don't see what other purpose we serve.

Jenny;

[gevurah]

And all in one piece.

Kate;

[20thcentury]

And did you find any gifts to bring me?

[20thcentury]

You'd think it'd find an alternative food source. The'yre doing wonderful things with soy these days.

[hullo_sweetie]

I've always wondered if the castle hand picks us like...a buffet?

[20thcentury]

Then what is it that makes us more appealing than others, I wonder?

Dictated

[the_effect_she_has]

[Now that is a good question ...Katniss pauses from where she was practicing her katas, her eyes narrowing, before she speaks slowly.]

Maybe ...it feeds off pain. Most of us seemed to be from turbulant places. I haven't met anyone here who hasn't come from someplace peaceful, or at least normal.

[hullo_sweetie]

I have no idea. We're all so different. Have different and unique pasts....

Jenny;

[gevurah]

I brought back some sea shells.

Sketches of the statues we saw, too.

dictated

[optimystic]

Well, everyone feels feelings, right? So I don't think any of us are useless to the castle.

Jenny

[abelard]

What makes you call her curious?

[lord_wizard]

[The cruise ship would be traumatic to him, but Felix has a long list of things that send him off the deep end]

Give it time. I've been here awhile. There's always a lull before the madness...

[Wow, that little nickname reminds him rather achingly of Tabby.]

I don't know if you'd call it a solid theory, but I've seen people from different world joining forces or helping each other - meetings that would not be possible in any other world but this one.

dictated

[20thcentury]

It's been theorised it feeds off emotion. Our happiness, our distress, our pain; that sort of thing.

I've met a few people who just live happy, mundane lives.

[20thcentury]

Well, not the ones who've been pulled here multiple times. They're rather popular, it seems.

Kate;

[20thcentury]

[She very smoothly switches to Business Mode at the mention of statues.]

Were the statues anything interesting?

Re: dictated

[20thcentury]

That's true enough. But if someone lives for doing something and they can't do that thing here ... I can't imagine that'd bring about many emotions apart from the initial burst of frustration and sadness.

Eventually it'd just all drop off to numbness.

Cesare

[20thcentury]

She asks loads of questions! That's the definition of curiosity, isn't it?

forever i guess

[abelard]

You must have said something to interest her!

[20thcentury]

These meetings are irrelevant outside this place, though. Supposedly we lose our memories of our time here when we leave, yeah?

no

[20thcentury]

I was speaking of politics. Is that something she's usually interested in?

wow fine no filter then

[abelard]

She is interested in it when it affects her, usually. Which is more often than not.

yeah this is now public for all to see!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[20thcentury]

She doesn't sound any older than fifteen. How could politics affect her?

rude

[abelard]

Our father is Pope of Rome. She has been married for an alliance [and money] once, and most likely will be again. She would be remiss to be entirely uninterested in such things.