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[mordredeschain]

*Mordred has discovered the Sign and has a question to ask.* Have ya ever had the sort o' day where ya wished the universe would just end already? If so, how did ya deal with it?

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[time_for_time]

He shakes his head. "That was about it for me, too. I ended up hiding out here." He thinks back, to a displaced root cellar in an empty field in the Nexus. His slightly younger sibling, unstable, dangerous, and tied up for safety. Blankets swiped from Nexus couches. Food harder to find because of the risk of LOL... and they'd been lucky they'd been adapted to eat such things, because e-tanks were almost unheard of... They'd slept a lot, to save energy. And it had been a good thing they'd both been designed to be so small...

"Things happened while I was away, and for a while I thought most of the others were dead. I didn't find out they'd faked it for about a year."

[mordredeschain]

You got here afore ya died, though, by the sound o' it. Wish I was so lucky.

They should've told ya, then, unless 'twas truly need-ta-know.

[time_for_time]

"Wasn't their fault. I didn't exactly leave a forwarding address, since they just would've had to tell the Old Man if he asked."

[mordredeschain]

Say true enough. Still a bedamned shame.

[time_for_time]

"It worked out in the end, but it was... just kind of a rough year. But it was all the stuff leading up to that, the whole mess..." he sighs. "I'm glad I didn't go through with it now. The whole 'Wipe all Robot Masters out of history' thing, I mean. Besides being batshit crazy... things did get better."

[mordredeschain]

You're lucky, sai; for me dead has certainly been better.

[time_for_time]

Time sighs. "Look, the point I'm trying to get at is that, while dead might be better than a current situation, being dead doesn't get better. And if you stick it out, most of the time being alive can get better. Or at least better than being dead."

[mordredeschain]

Being dead got better for me, didn't it? *Smirk.*

[time_for_time]

Time rolls his eyes at that. "This place being weird is an exception, not the rule." He grumbles that there needs to be a new word for being dead but not staying that way, because really dead means permanent.

[mordredeschain]

I rather suspect it always be weird, actually.

[time_for_time]

"I meant that this place being weird about death is an exception to general rules about death. If you mean this place being weird, yeah, it always is. If you mean death... I'm in no hurry to find out, and I hope it never is when it comes to some people who need to stay dead." Dr. Wily and Weil are at the top of that mental list. He sighs. "I'm on the clock over at the diner in 15 minutes, so I'd better go..."

[mordredeschain]

Say true an' thankya, an' well met.

[time_for_time]

Time waves, and he'll be on his way... slightly

relieved 'bots can't get stress headaches.