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So here's a question for all of you. What's the furthest you've been from home? Before coming here, I mean. This place doesn't count. I want to know how far people have traveled before coming here.

The name of the place you're from, the name of the place you like going. What your favorite city is called. Things like that.

I've always liked traveling. But I used to spend years in one place, even so. Always found myself drawn back to where I was born. It's one of those interesting things about people. I don't exactly miss the place, but I do find myself thinking about it sometimes. What it would be like if we could go back with memories of this place instead of forgetting everything.

So there's a second part of my question, I guess.

Say you go home, but you remember everything from here. What would you do with that information?

What if you arrived home at a time before the last thing you remember?

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A better question is "where haven't I traveled", really. My world is an expansive place, and I've put quite a bit of effort toward seeing as much of it as I can.

As for your second question — you're suggesting using something you've learned here to change your future, aren't you?

I don't know about many of the countries in my world, or even cities. It puts me at a bit of a disadvantage, but I can't say I mind so much since this place is interesting enough.

I'm not so optimistic as to say it's possible, but yes, I am. Fate is one of those things I don't believe can be changed but that doesn't mean that people will agree with me.

Let's play at being optimistic, then, If it were possible, and you had the opportunity, would you do it?

Honestly, I'm not sure.

What happens happens for a reason.

There's someone back there I care about. I didn't exactly tell her what I was about to do, though she knew anyway. If I were able to change it, to avoid my fate, I would do it for her. So I could see her smile.

You're quite the poet, you know.

Do you have any idea what happened to her without you?

I don't do it intentionally, but thank you.

I don't know what happened. I don't think there's anyone here who knows. All I can do is hope for the best.

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Is it the same woman you've told me about before?

[She doesn't think it is, from the differences in how he's described the circumstances, but.]

No, not at all.

This one is a very dear friend of mine.

And you regret what happened, now, for her sake — even if not for your own.

That's right.

At the time, I wasn't thinking about her. It was selfish of me.

There weren't many places to go, before we learned to ride dragons. It's all ocean around Berk. Even now I've mostly just been to other islands, all smaller than my own.

I've been back there, since coming here. I did remember this place, but it all seemed like a dream. It wouldn't have helped me any to tell anyone about here, but I would look for it, sometimes. Just in case.

[There were...plenty of things he'd change if he went home, depending on how far back he could go. But it was best not to dwell on that.]

For what it's worth, that's not an uncommon regret to have. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in your own affairs, and miss the way they might affect other people.

Dragons?

There are dragons in your world?

[That is so cool.]

I didn't realize that people could remember. Remember after coming back here, sure, but not back there. Maybe it varies from person to person.

I've been told I was here before, but I don't remember a thing about it.

It's not like telling people would make a difference. They would probably think that you were joking, or had some dream you didn't want to let go of.

That's good to know. It's not exactly a comforting thought, but at least I know that there are others who have that same regret.

If she ever shows up here, I'll have to apologize to her. I don't know if she will, but anything's possible. I owe her an explanation if nothing else.

If you don't mind my asking, is that something you do often? Acting without regard for how it'll affect others?

There are! My best friend's a dragon.

[...Which he can't tell if that makes it sound more cool or more sad, but oh well. What's typed is typed, and he certainly thinks it's cool.]

It must be. People come in from different times too so asking this place to be consistent is pretty useless.

Exactly. I was already mostly convinced of that myself, so it's possible that if I had talked about it, I would have had to forget about it by dismissing it as fake.

[Greed's best friend was a mass murderer, so uh...

Thankfully his reaction to that statement is more "dragons are cool!"]

I'd like to see a dragon. Sure, there are Pokemon sort of like dragons here, but that's not the same thing as a real, actual dragon.

I'd like to see one. There's nothing like dragons where I'm from. There are chimera, but they're not naturally occurring animals.

I wonder what would cause the memories of this place to fade? But then again, I can't really remember much about that strange weekend back in May, either.

To tell you the truth, what I did, I did because at the time it seemed to me to be only way to ensure that she stayed alive. But in the end, I still abandoned her.

A lot of people had already died and she and a boy were the only survivors.

I'd like to say I think ahead better than that normally, that I don't end up hurting people I care about, but I don't know how to answer that question. I've never thought about it before.

[And that... actually bothers him, because it probably means he's done it a lot.]

Oh, I don't know about that. My dragons certainly seem dragon-y to me. Not exactly the same, sure, but close enough, and I wouldn't be surprised if I found dragons more like them back home, eventually. We discover new ones all the time.

Unfortunately, if my bud came here, he'd be turned into a human, so it's not so easy to show you. What's a chimera?

You should consider yourself lucky. The first time I came here, no one could remember a thing. That there's any memory at all now is a blessing.

...There's a difference between taking actions that result in people being hurt, and taking them with a willful disregard for the fact that people might be hurt at all.

Sometimes you can't help but hurt people you care about. The fact that you said you were trying to keep her alive tells me that, whether you think so or not, you did take her into account to some extent — you couldn't have been trying to save her if you weren't thinking of her on some level in the first place.

To have abandoned her without ever stopping to consider that it'd affect her at all...that, I think, would be a worse crime entirely.

I went to Mars.
Only for something like three hours, and I was getting shot at the whole time, but it's still the furthest from Earth I've gone.
And I guess I'd have a lot of stories to tell people, though they'd start thinking I'm crazy quickly enough. Not that I'd blame them.

Really? Well, I guess I wouldn't know since I don't have any!

Changing into a human be odd for your friend, I bet. It'd be like if one of my Pokemon were suddenly human.

Chimera are combinations of different animals. [And sometimes people, but he's not going to mention that part.] It's not something considered appropriate by polite society, but some people love to play god.

What's Mars?

I'm not going to think any of your stories are crazy, trust me.

Well, it definitely took him some getting used to the last time he was here... That was ages ago, now. He's used to have retractable teeth, so he wound up biting his lip a lot, and he couldn't fly or speak. I met another dragon here that was able to talk like a human, though.

I see. [He doesn't really get it, but he's got the feeling that it's something along the lines of "taking apart corpses", in terms of queasiness.] They must not be very common either then, I would think.

[He would...hope...]

Moving away from the Sun, it's the planet right after Earth. After that you have Jupiter.
There are human colonies around there, but it's not exactly a place that's visited often. Especially because of the war.

I sure hope not, because I can't think of anything crazier than the creepy castle, and around here that's just par for the course.

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