...Twice, actually. Once here, once in Alice's heart - where I also killed him. Where Alice and Otoha also killed me. And it's seeming very likely that I'll end up killing all of them.
[In all truth... he's beginning to get used to the fact that they're all going to die, come back, and die again. It's looking more and more like that's a fact of this place, so no matter how much it makes his heart race he'd better get used to it.]
This is all going to have been an interesting adventure by the time I get to leave, dream or no dream. And that means no one dies for real.
[He's trying to convince himself, sure. But he's always wanted an adventure away from Pelican Town, right? And this is more of that than he's ever gotten before. It's closer to his fantasy books than anything he could have gotten back home. He always played one of the magic-users, and he also always ran the game. If this was like a campaign put into reality, he was going to do his best to make sure he won.]
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[In all truth... he's beginning to get used to the fact that they're all going to die, come back, and die again. It's looking more and more like that's a fact of this place, so no matter how much it makes his heart race he'd better get used to it.]
This is all going to have been an interesting adventure by the time I get to leave, dream or no dream. And that means no one dies for real.
[He's trying to convince himself, sure. But he's always wanted an adventure away from Pelican Town, right? And this is more of that than he's ever gotten before. It's closer to his fantasy books than anything he could have gotten back home. He always played one of the magic-users, and he also always ran the game. If this was like a campaign put into reality, he was going to do his best to make sure he won.]