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[He's frowning intently when the video feed starts, but he doesn't hesitate to speak. This has been eating at him for a few days now -- and he can't figure it out himself; so finally he thought he might as well ask...

Maybe someone knows.]

How can you tell what's real?

[That's it; he gives a quick nod and cuts the feed.]

Comments

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I think you're right...

But the other feels like it's real too. That's not just me, right? Everybody seems confused.

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'shishishi, they believe they're right because they're too scared to accept the truth that this place is real.

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But this place isn't scary!

[Genuinely confused by that one. Especially compared to the dreams... he doesn't believe them, but thinking that might be the truth, and whatever the doctors won't tell him about really happened--

They're much more frightening than this city.]

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It's not home. To think of being trapped here for the rest of your life- how would you like it?

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I wouldn't. But people go home all the time, right?

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There are those who have been here for years, too.

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Yeah, I know.

But nobody ages, and when you go home it's the same time as you left... right?

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The prince wouldn't know.

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That's what everybody said.

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How would they be certain of how it will be when we return?

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Um... I didn't ask.

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Then, how do you know?

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[Killua wouldn't have told him that if it wasn't true, but...]

Do you think it's not true?

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Do you think it is?

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Yes. Because so many people wouldn't agree if it was just a guess, right?

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They would, to make this place seem less troublesome than it is.

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But there are people who come from different times, and the later ones say the earlier ones were never missing.

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Alternate dimensions.

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Why do you say that?

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It's just as probable as their assumptions.

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...So you don't have any reason to think so?

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There are plenty of alternate dimensions, all branching off from one's decision to go one way or another, certain tiny changes that are made.

For instance, the timeline which I disappeared would be one without me in it, which would change details involving me. But timelines would branch off, ones which I have not disappeared from.

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[Frowning, and clearly thinking more seriously about this.] But if no one's ever come here who does remember someone else leaving....

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Then, we're all from alternate dimensions.

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Why would they do that?