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[foundafamily]

Is anybody here a fan of Poe? I got this in my locker last jump:

[There's the sound of a paper rustling. Firo clears his throat.]

"Thy soul shall find itself alone
‘Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone;
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy..."

[He continues to read, impatiently speeding up at the end so the lines of the last stanza run together.]

To be honest, I never really got the end back when my friend used to read it. But it’s creepy, isn’t it? Really suits this place.

What I'm wonderin' about is if it's supposed to be some sortta threat or message. 'Cause just comin' out and sayin' it would be too easy, right?

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[lastisocorn]

[She shrugs it off blithely. This place, with its trees and peaches, is just as weird to her.]

Because the system inside a computer is its own world. There are buildings, roads, motorcycles ... not a lot of weather, though. Some rain. No sun.

[foundafamily]

...Huh. I don't think I'm smart enough to understand how somethin' like that works.

[He laughs.]

But it's still pretty amazing! There's nothin' like that where I'm from--it's kinda weird that we still have the same books.

[Of all the things to be similar across worlds, Firo would think it would be the more complex things.]