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[Accidental Voice/Action] Just not the same...

[He's got his bell. He's got the Oresoren doll. And now he's got an Oresoren rug, courtesy of Catherine Claus. Jay's apartment is looking closer to home. But a simple doll just doesn't replace the real Oresoren, the most important thing he's missing. Of course, the journal works in mysterious ways, and can start recording at the most "inconvenient" times.]

…What do you do when you miss someone?

[Later that day, Jay can be found by the lake, watching the ducks and occasionally throwing bread crumbs out to them.]

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Fourteen and a half months.

[And he sounds bitter about that fact himself.]

Over a year, hm? [To most people that may seem like a lot, but to Yuan it's nothing. His three year anniversary is in a few weeks.]

Indeed. But you...it's coming up on three years, isn't it?

[He remembers when you made the two-year anniversary announcement, which feels like an eternity ago.]

You remember that?

[Yuan doesn't really remember Jay overhearing the 'announcement' last year, but the kid did claim to be an information gatherer. Wherever he picked up on the snippet of information, he must've deemed it important enough to actually take note of.]

How could I forget?

[Jay remembers that he even responded to Yuan's announcement. It was important enough to let him know to steel himself for a long stay in Luceti.]

There aren't many who've reached three years without interruption. I'm sure you can count them on two hands, if not one.

[Albert, for one. Sheena... Kratos reached three years before he was sent home. Raine must be nearing three years as well. There was that Stella girl, but she may have been sent home before the three year mark. Yuan has no clue when she arrived, he just knows she gave birth to a kid a few months after he first came to Luceti. If Usagi were still around, she'd have reached her three year mark soon as well. That's about all the people coming to mind, but he can't claim to know all of the population.]

Well, if one could be here for two years...

[He trails off, knowing the majority who are sent home before even the first year. If only he could be so lucky...]

I could be unlucky enough to be here for five years, if not more. As could you. There's no way to tell.

[He's well aware of it, but that was not what he wanted to hear. What if they're stuck here for the rest of their lives?]

...Is it possible to die from old age here? And would they come back?

[Random, but hopefully a good distraction subject.]

[Distraction? Jay probably won't like what he hears, then.]

I'm sure that you can, yes. It'd be a neverending cycle.

[...wut?]

It seems pointless to come back from an old age death, only to die from it immediately again.

No. When you return, you'd be the same age you were when you first arrived in Luceti.

[He can't remember where he heard this for the life of him. It was probably Jacob or John, but it's a fact he made sure to remember nonetheless.]

[That makes more sense, but oh the horror.]

I'd rather die than live in this place.

[Pointless, but still had to be said.]

Then you can report to the Third Party and ask them to finish the job. They have that same outlook on the matter.

Please. I'm not that desperate.

Then don't talk about dying so lightly.

[Oh, he does it all the time, though this is the first time someone has taken it literally.]

Fine, fine. But you of all people should have known better anyway.

Oh, really? [His tone of voice sounds dangerous, now. What is Jay trying to imply, here?]

Did you honestly expect me to walk up to the Third Party and ask them to "finish the job?"

[He sure suggested it lightly enough.]

I wouldn't know. If you'd really rather die than live in this place, it's the easiest way out.

[Another sigh.]

Even then, it might not be the way out.

Either the people sacrificed by the Third Party go home for good, or they're dead for good. It's a risk they're willing to take. Most of their victims probably don't agree, but that's what the war is all about.

[That's not what he's talking about, but he'll go with it for the sake of keeping their secret off the journals.]

Well, of course.

[Why did they even start talking about something this depressing, anyway?]

... Either way, if you're starting to get homesick, you'd best find something to keep yourself busy, or it's going to be a long stay.

Right.

[Reality check is complete.]

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