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[goryteller]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, WILHELM. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 012.77.248.14 *** WILHELM has joined 012.77.248.14 <WILHELM> Hello. This is the private mailbox belonging to Katurian Katurian. It sounds a little like a fake name, but it isn't. <WILHELM>Ha ha. <WILHELM>Anyway, if you leave a message here, I'll get back to it when I can.

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[goryteller]

[He isn't expecting the response. He hesitates before responding, his fingers suspended above the keyboard.]

Sure. Of course. What is it?

[peccatore]

Do you want to go home?

[goryteller]

I

I don't think I told you this, so that's fine, but where I come from, the government isn't too fond of writers or [pause] the mentally unwell, with myself being the former and my brother being the latter, of course, and anyway, things aren't looking too good for us back there. I mean, before I arrived here, I was a political prisoner. I was very likely to be executed within the day.

Ha ha.

Anyway, to answer your question, I don't want to go home. I don't want to be a monster, but I don't want to go home. If my brother's dead, he's dead, but I'm hoping she'll bring him here someday. I think that'll be better. I think we'll have a better chance at a happy life, if that happens.

[peccatore]

Right. I can understand that.

It's funny

[This is... kind of personal. But he figures Katurian is kind of a friend, too. He certainly feels a sort of bond with him that he hasn't found in too many other places.]

I used to want to go home but
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be a monster either.
But I've found very good people here.