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It's been a few months, but I'm back in Goldenrod. I'd say I'm glad to be back, but apparently the ground shaking had to go and happen again not long after I got off the train. I don't have much experience with earthquakes, but we've had a few in a row. That can't exactly be a good sign.

Anyone know what the hell is going on? Is this going to be happening all the time now? At least they're not causing any damage, though the crystal I grabbed back in May makes me think that this is some kind of omen of things to come.

In any event, there are a few of you I wouldn't mind speaking with now that I've returned. I think you all know who you are but I'll be in contact at some point regardless.

Let's hope we've seen the last of this crap until then, yeah?

Action for Goldenrod City
[After he fires off the message, Greed spends the rest of the day getting reacquainted with the city. He's never been the sort to stay put for very long, so making the decision to roost in Goldenrod is, well, a little unusual. But he supposes it's not so different than when he decided to return to Dublith.

The locals don't seem too bothered by the tremor, but maybe that's because Greed isn't going around asking each individual person what they think about the current strange occurrence. He spends some time pestering a few people about it just the same, though everyone is going just as clueless as him.

Late in the afternoon, Greed can be found with a horde of Pumpkaboo following behind him and jabbering like the world's most irritating birds.

Once in a while they'll break rank to all shout "BOO!" at once at an unsuspecting passerby.

.....he's so sorry.]

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seriously

shit ALWAYS goes down here in october

I knew that, too, and here I go running my mouth.

Here's to hoping it's something we can deal with.

if its any comfort, its usually nothing fatal

... or at least i've never HEARD of anybody dying

That is rather comforting, actually.

It could always be much worse.

this place has never once lived up to my home in terms of bad shit

until it does, i usually try not to worry

I can't say I can imagine it being as bad as where I'm from either.

At least that is comforting.

yeah, Envy kind of gave me that impression too.

this place is a big step up from where a lot of us come from, I think

To be honest, I like it.

It's a home. I can't call the place I came from home.

yeah

me either

another thing we've got in common, huh?

We make quite a group, don't we? You, me and Envy.

yeah

that's the other thing that I've been able to find here that I wasn't able to back home


people who are like me.

I'd say that's a pretty good deal.

This place really isn't so bad.

when the worst thing about a place is that sometimes people LEAVE it, you know you've got something pretty good going on

You've got that right.

If only people wouldn't leave this place.

I've already noticed I've been here longer than many others. Seems like it would get tough after a while.

yeah

try being here for four years


i've seen a lot of people come and go

kind of sucks

but in the end i'm lucky to have been here this long

It must be hard.

[But then, he has a similar problem. The downside to being effectively immortal is outliving everyone you will ever meet.]

I can't imagine going back now. Remembering this place or not.

I don't want to go, even with the bad.

_{[Heather fortunately can't say that she knows what it's like to be immortal... but deep down, she has always wondered a little bit about whether or not the reincarnation thing will be ongoing.]

[She's pretty much decided that she doesn't want to know.]

[It barely even matters here, anyway.]}

yeah.

sometimes I think about what going back would be like.

I have this feeling that I WON'T be, to be honest, but you never really know. 

there's no warning or anything, when it happens it just HAPPENS.

I wish I could say I was prepared for that, but I'm really not.

I have almost everything here, and almost nothing back home.

There's one friend.

That's basically it.

I don't know what I would do if any of you left.

You, Envy and Lust are...

Well, you mean a lot to me. Henry I don't know as well, but he's a good man.

All we can do is hope it never happens.

_{[... It's funny. She hasn't even known Greed all that long, and it's a remarkably candid statement, coming from someone like him. Like any of Envy's family, or species, if you want to go that far.]

[But it doesn't feel strange or out of place.]

[Just like it hadn't felt strange or out of place when she'd said almost the exact same thing to the first people she came to care for in this place. There's always something about the first ones.]

[And that's why reading Greed's text makes her heart ache.]}

It will happen.

I won't lie to you. It will. One of us, or maybe even all of us but one, will go away. It hurts, a lot, being the only person left.

I've had a lot of families in my time here.

Different ones, too-- maybe with a little overlap here and there, but still.


But I want you to know that even if Envy and Lust go home, or hell even if by some crazy miracle -I- go home after all these years, you'll keep going

The losses hurt but you'll keep going and there will be new families



The important thing is to savor the time you've got

That way, even if people do leave... you'll have plenty to remember

_{[There's a bit of a pause.]}

... I haven't forgotten anybody who I cared about here. Even the ones who've been gone for years.

It won't be the first time I've lost 'family.'

But I'm going to hope it doesn't happen for a long, long time.

It's not easy.

well, hope sure doesn't hurt

anyway, you've got us for now

LUCKY YOU

This is when one of us says something corny, isn't it?

"Let's treasure every day we've got."

Something like that.

haha PRETTY MUCH

it's okay, we can spice it up with some profanity

CARPE FUCKIN' DIEM

better?

Much.

I'm not so good at sentimental things.

don't tell anybody but i'm a big damn softie

i'll be sentimental for the both of us

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