text.

[sacrifica]

so people come and go all the time. i mean that's the message that everyone keeps giving out - you just arrive with no warning and then you can just disappear.

( Or some of the latest messages make that seem likely )

has anyone ever appeared that you'd never expect to see here? someone that shouldn't be able to be here.

( 'Someone that's dead' is what Elena really means. Dead dead. 'On the other side which is now destroyed' dead. Impossible. There might be a couple of people she'd really like to see if that was an possible option )

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[alldamned]

By all accounts, pretty sure I shouldn't be here.
Can't tell you for sure. Wouldn't wish this place on anyone, but if it meant seeing someone I thought was gone for good?
Maybe it'd be worth it. Hard to say.

[wolfchild]

all the time. you get used to it.

[ a lie — though not for elena's sake. ]

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[iceboxed]

people turn up here who shouldn't be able to all the time
they just don't always know it
or sometimes we don't know it yet

[sacrifica]

it would. for someone important, or someone you loved.
and they wouldn't be alone. that would help.

[sacrifica]

even when they're dead?
i want to see them again but if they're gone how can they be brought here?

[sacrifica]

how if they're dead?
is it magic?

[iceboxed]

no one knows for sure
but people come here from different times
sometimes they just haven't died yet

[wolfchild]

same way the still living are

[ translation: no fucking clue. ]

[alldamned]

It'd be asking them to come somewhere they'd have to suffer.
You haven't seen much of what this place has to offer yet, but you gotta consider these things.

[toomuchtenacity]

Kinda. I met someone who was human here when they weren't supposed to be.

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[bailedontheempire]

Whatever mechanism brings us here has little concern for linear timelines. I've met people who lived millenia before me and a granddaughter who wasn't born until years after I die.

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[skjalf]

( her smiles is sad. ) Yes.

My.. granddaughter was here for a time. And I have no yet borne any children.

( 'someone who might never be born' is close enough, right? )

[uncurse]

Yeah.

It's not what you think: they're not really back. It doesn't change anything.

[sacrifica]

i didn't think about that. about going back.

( Well that's just sad and depressing, having to lose them all over again )

but you at least get more time with them here. something you couldn't have before.

video » private

[sacrifica]

( Reluctant video switch but you're a nice person, so she will )

How? How far in the future was that?

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[sacrifica]

so if someone that died came here they might not even know they're dead?
or know you?

[sacrifica]

what were they supposed to be?

[sacrifica]

they're already suffering.
is this place that much worse?

[sacrifica]

that sounds impossible. or like magic.
which is impossible.

( Right? Right? Covering bases )

[sacrifica]

that sounds like it would be confusing
i don't know what would be worse. a second chance or them being from a different time

[action]

[songofhappiness]

[ She saw that text. Caroline had been out and about, unable to sit still for very long. She's used to having the freedom to come and go as she pleases, for the most part, and being confined makes her determined to get out.

Elena's text, however, has her turning right back around to check in on her friend.

Which is why Elena will find Caroline in her doorway, arms folded over her chest and a slightly worried look on her face. ]

Hey, you okay?

[sacrifica]

( There's a head shake, and no surprise at Caroline being there. They'd let each other have access to the other's room, and with the text that Elena had just sent out she knew it would send out- something to Caroline.

They both felt it - the sadness for Bonnie, and then Elena's pain for Damon. It didn't feel like it would ever be okay )

I miss them.

( They shouldn't be trapped here, Elena knows that realistically but she'd give anything to see Damon and Bonnie again, or Jenna, or her parents. Anyone that's died, or just been left behind )

[wolfchild]

so?

[toomuchtenacity]

an A.I in a round metal body

[songofhappiness]

[ The simple statement has Caroline's expression turning sad, her arms dropping to her sides as she walks toward her best friend. The grief that Elena has had to deal with is something that would drive most people insane. ]

I know. I do, too. [ She plops down on Elena's bed, sighing. ] What's everyone been saying so far?