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[wotanon]

Who: Anyone!
Where: Anywhere
When: Day 449

Today's a day! What are you up to?

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[forgottenmercy]

They, ah, can be...difficult.

[happydreamed]

Indeed. ...I didn't wish to bother my unit overmuch, so here I am.

[forgottenmercy]

Do you, ah, think it would help to speak about it, or would quiet help more...?

[happydreamed]

...have you any advice for learning that the past you might have been a bad person?

[forgottenmercy]

...I think that, ah, depends. What, ah, in the memory gave you that impression...?

[happydreamed]

For example... giving aid to someone you have strong suspicions of being a murderer?

[forgottenmercy]

Do you, ah, know any more of the context...?

[happydreamed]

They burned down a church and I refused to call the police.

[forgottenmercy]

...I, ah, see. That, ah, does sound like...quite a bit.

[happydreamed]

Indeed. You understand why I am struggling with such a memory.

[forgottenmercy]

I, ah, do, yes.

I think, ah, there are a number of ways you could handle it...

[happydreamed]

What would you suggest?

[forgottenmercy]

One, ah, way is that none of us who have lost our memories is the same person as we were - that we don't come back together the same way.

Another is, ah, consider what seems to be your creed as a doctor- that feeling strongly enough to heal everyone, no matter what, without bias, is admirable in its own way.

[happydreamed]

...I don't know that a doctor's oath reaches that extent.

[He knows he should have called the police. That that boy might do the same thing again.]

But I would like to become a better person than that, at least.

[forgottenmercy]

This, ah, place is...good, for that kind of growth. Or, ah, can be...

[happydreamed]

In between making us kill each other?

[forgottenmercy]

That's, ah, correct, yes...

[happydreamed]

Truly, this place continues to surprise.

[forgottenmercy]

It, ah, is like that...

[happydreamed]

...If Hell provides for personal character growth and then can be escaped, is it not in fact closer to Purgatory?

[forgottenmercy]

...ah, perhaps...?

Though I, ah, only read about 'Purgatory' while here...

[definitely comes from a culture where hell is something entirely different and there is no purgatory.]

[happydreamed]

I'd hardly call myself an expert, to be honest. Religion is a bit of a vague spot in my memory.

[forgottenmercy]

There are, ah, at least quite a number of books about it in the library...

[happydreamed]

I haven't spent much time there yet, admittedly. Once I become engrossed I might forget to leave, ohoh.

[forgottenmercy]

I think, ah, there are places you could sleep temporarily as well...