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[Ky's sitting formally at the desk in his apartment, his back straight and the cup of tea he had been sipping on set aside for the moment. This is a far less formal matter than things he's spoken of before, in many ways. He's trying to get other people's opinions for the simple reason that he's curious, and nothing more.]

Is there any one person you would say has made you who you are? Whose opinion you automatically trust, or trusted, more?

[Ky's had a lot more time to think about questions like this since he's been in Vatheon, and certainly he thinks he's learned a lot from questions that other people have asked, even if they don't have immediate or direct consequences. And Zelda's recitation of what the scientist had said, about them having to be heroes, had struck home. How did people learn to be heroes, after all?]

If so, why them? Did it just happen, or did they do something to make you trust them?

And if not, how did you work things out on your own?

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[not_heavens_adam]

[Hmm...Johnny has to think about this now. Ess on 'who' and more on the other questions.]

I don't know if 'made' is the correct term so much as 'altered' is. He changed everything.

I don't suppose you know a man here named Jacob, do you, Ky~? Because that would be my answer. I would trust Jacob with anything.

[Hell, the entire reason he was so willing to admit such feelings honestly was because of Jacob.]

As for your other questions...I don't know how it happened. It just...is what it is.

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You met him here..?

[Ky nods then, yes, he's spoken with a Jacob a couple of times, even if their conversations clearly weren't as meaningful as his with Johnny's were.]

Are you worried that you might not remember what he's taught you once you return to your world?

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[not_heavens_adam]

[Ow. He hadn't really thought about it.]

....yes. But I'd like to think that, perhaps, a part of me would remember and eventually reapply.

Preferably, I just won't go home~

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[closedcircuit]

[The first conversation Ky had with Jacob was on the subject, so it came to mind.]

That seems reasonable enough to me. I do believe that what we do here...will affect the balance of our souls, if nothing else. And it might not be nothing else.

Would going home be that unpleasant for you? Or are you simply happier here?

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[not_heavens_adam]

[He lazily holds up two fingers so Ky can see.]

Duex, Monsieur. This place is a lot more accepting of...well, pretty much everything. Besides, it lets me walk around in the daylight, even if that means I have to stay underwater~

What about you, Ky? Do you have someone who fits your own description~?

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Mm. I suppose, if I didn't have my duty back home, I might be more comfortable here.

[Not that Ky's ever known a time that he didn't consider himself to have a duty, and that has more to do with him than the world.]

But still, I...don't trust this place.

Mm, yes. I had a mentor.

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[not_heavens_adam]

Well....maybe, someday, you can go take care of that duty and then come back~

Mmmm...what is it that you don't trust?

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[closedcircuit]

[A soft smile, more a smile for the sake of smiling than genuine pleasure or amusement.]

I don't think my duty would be so easily satisfied.

We're being kept here for some purpose, and that purpose has yet to be revealed. That's never a good sign.

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[not_heavens_adam]

[A slight sigh. Really, Ky.]

No...I suppose it's not...still, I can think of worse places and worse people to have to live with~

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Much of the company has been lovely.

[And yet Ky can't shake the feeling of loneliness at his heart, held too tightly for him to let it go, to relax.]