I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:15 pmMs. McManus was walking the grounds, a bit away from the devastation. It was not too long before they had to leave, and she had a wistful look on her face.
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I10DT - Remembering
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:15 pmRe: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:19 pm"You know, I used to dream about coming here." she says, trying to distract Sam a little from everything that must be weighing on her mind right now.
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:23 pm"I miss it sometimes, you know? They weren't all bad times."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:25 pm"I'd hope so." she smiles faintly. "Especially with how you tend to talk about them."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:38 pm"It was the best place I could have been, at the time."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:41 pm"I can only imagine. Things were bad for me when the wings and all the fur started growing but at least it was stable."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:44 pm"And now everyone's grown up, moved on, changed. I suppose I'm as guilty of that as any."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:48 pm"And that's good. Nostalgia is nice but no one actually wants to be stuck in the past."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:49 pm"Aye. Things were simpler then, but not necessarily easier."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:52 pm"We grow with our problems. Or maybe they just grow with us." she chuckles weakly.
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:21 pm"Almost depressing to think of how little I get to see my old classmates."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:34 pm"Maybe that'll change now that there's talk about tieing the two schools closer together."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:38 pm"For some of them, aye. Not all of them ended up back here."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:57 pm"Well, that's why people have highschool reunions."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:28 pm"Imagine for a moment what mine would look like," she smirked.
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:38 pm"Terrifying." she chuckles.
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:50 pm"Not many of us went on to small lives, though quite a few went on to strange ones."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:53 pm"Seems like most of us are destined for strangeness."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:20 pm"You being the one who believes in destiny, aye?"
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:27 pm"To a certain degree..."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:31 pm"The irony of complaining about time travelers that know my future while dating a precog isn't lost on me."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:33 pm"Well to some degree a lot of futures are open to us. A lot of them close every second too but there's always... prominent ones, I suppose."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:39 pm"Simply struck me funny, just now."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:54 pm"Well, time-travellers are bound to be more obnoxious. To them the future is what happens." she chuckles.
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:55 pm"Aye, and they're always so bloody smug about it."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:58 pm"Wouldn't you be if you had to deal with the uppity past pretending things might go different?"
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:10 pm"As opposed to the uppity future, who has decided they already know you?"
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:16 pm"Well from the perspective of the past they can still split off to a different path, though we won't notice if they do. I'll admit it's complicated and head-ache inducing."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:30 pm"Aye. Best not pondered."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:41 pm"Sometimes there's no way around it, but yes."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:44 pm"So what have you been up to, while I held off the bureaucratic hordes?"
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:58 pm"I mainly took the chance to take a look around the fabled Institute. And I talked to the former horseman of war..."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:02 pm"Now that I wouldn't have expected of you, given your past with him."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:20 pm"Things have changed since then."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:25 pm"I didn't think that would make you more tolerant of what he's done."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:41 pm"It showed me how easy it can be to slip and fall, even get used to it."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:43 pm"Suppose that's true. What did you talk about?"
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:50 pm"I wanted to hear what he had to say for himself. I was... pleasantly surprised to find him accepting his guilt in this and admitting he joined Apocalypse somewhat willingly."
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:51 pm"That doesn't exactly make my job in all this easy though, aye?"
Re: I10DT - Remembering
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:05 pm"No, but I have to give him credit for feeling regret and not having given himself up. It's more than there was before."