text: anon.

[dedikated]

You going home as soon as you get the energy to? Or what?

( This post bought to you by too much downtime at work. She still wants - needs - to go home, needs to know that these two cities were worth it, but she's beginning to find reasons to want to stay, too. )

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text: un: burninate

[kelvins]

and miss out on enjoying my all expenses paid vacation.
shit stinks where i'm from. we kind of broke everything.

text: un: anon forever

[dedikated]

Holidays get boring after a while.
Can't fix anything if you don't go back, either.

[kelvins]

you sound a hell of a lot like a little birdy i know.
that's not you in there is it, lance?

[dedikated]

Wouldn't say if I were, would I?

( Anon function is used for a reason. )

[kelvins]

no i don't suppose you would. but i'd like to think if you were you'd also trust me enough to tell me if you were having doubts about going back.

[dedikated]

Not this Lance guy, if that makes you feel better.

( Mmm, yep, definitely no lance down here. )

[kelvins]

last time i checked, lance was all woman, but maybe you refer to everyone as a guy or a dude.

so you made up your mind about whether you're sticking around or not yet?

[dedikated]

( Well then. It could be possible. But it isn't. )

Still not her.

For a while, I guess. Few things I need to do.

[kelvins]

well then. won't press you for your name, anon.

but if you ever want to not talk about it, bar's open. i'll save you a stool.

[dedikated]

Keep that in mind. Could always use a drink.

( TBH she was probably at all the bars way too much last month but c'est la vie. )

[kelvins]

no shortage of them.
i'm the owner of criminales.

maybe i'll make you a special drink.
leaving on a wish stone.

if you order that i'll know it's you. we don't have to share stories, i'll just make it extra strong.

text | un: elsa

[atms]

I might. It depends.

[dedikated]

On?

( She's thought about staying, but every time-

Well, the last time she did what she wanted, it ended badly. )

[atms]

Whether or not this thing can actually bring the dead back to life.

[dedikated]

( She'd tell you if she knew she was coming back. )

Only way we know is if we go back.

text | c.fraser

[nineteenfortyfive]

I might stay around for a while if they allow it.

[dedikated]

Think they do.

( Her letter certainly said that she can use the energy for other things... )

[nineteenfortyfive]

I have someone here I care for very much, but he's not good at asking for things for himself. Or the right things, I should say. If I can help him, then I'm here for as long as it takes.

[dedikated]

The right things?

( That's an odd thing to say, isn't it? Maybe it's the lack of details, but Kate's having trouble understanding how that's a problem. )

[nineteenfortyfive]

He tends to focus on the symptoms rather than the cause of the unhappiness in his life.

[dedikated]

( Okay. No less odd a thing to say, really. Kate's not sure what to say about that, so instead... )

So you're gonna look out for him?

[nineteenfortyfive]

I'm wondering if once I get my wish I can have another for him. If he'll allow it, anyway.

text; un: driver

[killertrack]

depends on people, here. if i have reasons to stay here, i probably will, at least for a while.

[dedikated]

Can understand that. Thinking about it.

( Probably shouldn't... )

[killertrack]

thinking about what? staying?

[dedikated]

Exactly. Suppose there's a lot to do anyway.

( You know, making sure your landlord and your job know you're going. Other things she... might be grasping at, a little. )

[killertrack]

is there? you got someone to stay for?

[dedikated]

( UH.

UHHHH.

That's a Question. )

Suppose there's an acquaintance who'd want to know.

( Kate you're the worst. )

[killertrack]

i don't follow

[ Confused Baby is confused. ]

[dedikated]

Suppose there's one person here who should know if I leave.

( If only because she's known him for so many months now. That's absolutely the only reason. )

[killertrack]

oh, right. but you wouldn't want to stay for them?

[dedikated]

Can't. Got things that need doing back home.

( People who need saving. )

[killertrack]

more important than whoever is here with you now?

[ This is - hitting close to home, for him. He imagines he's going to have this conversation again soon. ]

text ; un: stardust

[made_of_stars]

... people are depending on me.

[dedikated]

On this wish of yours?

( She's just guessing. People's lives hang in the balance of hers.

Well, one life. But one that's more important than anything else. )

[made_of_stars]

No. But when I left - when I was brought here - I was trying to save lives.

Millions of them.

[She's torn. The mission can't succeed without her. On the other, she's accepted that what she was walking into wasn't a situation she'd be walking out of.

How can she possibly stay here when so many are depending on her?]

[dedikated]

( Alright. That makes her own problem seem like little in comparison. Doesn't stop the weight of it, but makes Kate pause and wonder what that must be like. )

And that's all on you?

[made_of_stars]

[Terrifying. And exhausting. And Jyn still feels weighed down from the enormity of it even though she's - she assumes - currently quite far removed from the situation. Still, something like that doesn't disappear easily.]

And others. So many others. But I'm the only one who knows how to set everything into motion.

Without me, there's no chance.

[It's not something to be proud of, and Jyn isn't bragging. It just is.]

[dedikated]

( No, no it doesn't. Kate would only have to look to her own response to trying to be normal to know that. )

Well, shit.

Sucks to be you.

( She's the most Encouraging. :| )

[made_of_stars]

[But she does make Jyn huff out a tiny, amused chuckle.]

Yeah, sometimes.

What about you? Planning on heading home when you can?

text. anonymous.

[recoined]

( surprisingly enough, kimberly doesn't bother to sign in. or maybe she doesn't get up the courage to do so. in any case, regardless of whether it's casual indifference or carefully calculated stealth, she remains anonymous. )

i know i should go home, but i don't want to yet.

[dedikated]

Needed the holiday?

( IF she jokes, it'll be easier to deal with the conflict regarding this letter, right? )

[recoined]

yeah, something like that

( she's been going over and over in her head just what she wants to ask for, if going home is even something she can avoid. if she's even going to address said letter at all. )

i think i'm just happier here

[dedikated]

( In theory, this city is all she's dreamed of for years. A world where she doesn't need to fight, where she gets to be normal again. But she has no idea how to be normal any more. This idleness drives her crazy.

And there's a duty she can't look past. )

Place seems like it tries to make that happen.