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[outofoffice]

[ They're just using terms they can identify with, plants ]

Exactly! It's about both people's happiness.

[essenceborn]

[ it's just plants all the way down at this point ]

That's really all that's required??

[outofoffice]

Yup!

Does that change your assessment of your prospects?

[essenceborn]

[ oh my god is nen about to ask yuuto if he'd like to join nen's love life ]

I think so?
Every book I read made it seem like procreation was the only reason species engaged in that kind of behaviour.
This is really weird.

[outofoffice]

[ ur welcome yuuto ]

Something tells me your readings were purely scientific. There's so much more to it than that.

[essenceborn]

Well of course they were! They were books from a research laboratory. What else would they be?

[outofoffice]

Were you a scientist?

[essenceborn]

No, I was a test subject.

[outofoffice]

[


Hol up ]

And what did that entail, exactly?

[essenceborn]

Test Subject? It means I was created in a laboratory. Does your world have those?

[outofoffice]

It does.

Though, generally, any person who resides in one as a test subject is there against their will.

[essenceborn]

[ Against their will...?

...Well. Nenonen definitely wanted to leave after the time loops began. That's when everything started to go wrong, and when everyone started to deteriorate. But before that the thought had never crossed their mind. Nen's whole world existed within the confines of the tower. Nothing existed beyond that until the researchers were gone and their key cards, recovered. ]

Why?

[outofoffice]

Because of unscrupulous morals on the parts of their overseers, usually.

Were you asked if you wanted to be there? Were you offered the opportunity to leave?

[essenceborn]

[ Nen pauses. ]

...No. They didn't ask us questions like that.

[outofoffice]

Would you say, then, that you were there because you wanted to be?

[essenceborn]

I didn't know I could leave.

[ And by the time Nen found out, there was no one left alive to help them do it. ]

[outofoffice]

So this is why you'd never seen flowers before?

[essenceborn]

Yeah. Even when I found the windows and could see outside, I never saw any of them. But a few of the books had pictures, and there was a painting in one of the lobbies.

[outofoffice]

[ . . . . ]

Have you ever been flying before, Neno?

[essenceborn]

You mean like in the sky? Like a dragon?

[ It really tells you something when the first flying animal you can name is a dragon and not, like...a bird. A plane. Kites. Anything else. ]

[outofoffice]

[ It's ok. Venti has experience with people who've been locked away and never seen the birds or flowers. ]

Yes, just like that.

[essenceborn]

No, I have never been flying. Is that a magic thing?

[outofoffice]

Sometimes!

I'd like to take you, if you're interested.

[essenceborn]

No way--you can sing, play music, look after flowers AND fly??
You can do everything!

[outofoffice]

Hehe, not everything.

But at least those things, yes!