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If you'd like to ask the Transmitter something over text, go right ahead! The Transmitter will respond to texts messages as soon as she's available. You will likely get a text back very quickly.

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Comments are screened for privacy; all Patients are offered confidentiality, didn't you know?

Comments

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it's been awhile since i've had many. only the risen, after all.

[nachetanya]

The Risen are you friends?

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oh god no.

[ ... ]

maybe once, almost. a few of them. they were just the only people i was around for a long while.

[nachetanya]

You really aren't just seventeen, are you?

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i still feel seventeen. i still look seventeen. just a really fucking tired seventeen.

[nachetanya]

I suppose I have room to talk, in another era than the one I was born into, I'd look like a very certain eighteen year old

[ Read certain as jaded ]

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yeah where i'm from you'd be an outlier. teenagers are supposed to be dumb kids having fun with their lives before going off to figure what they're supposed to do.

we'd both be pretty out of place.

[nachetanya]

That sounds like Osomatsu's description of his world and expectations. School only to go to school again and only becoming an adult after all of *that*.

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that's about right.

[nachetanya]

That can't help but sound silly to me, I'm sorry

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don't have to apologize. i've never been too invested in all that.

[nachetanya]

Well your likes do ironically include "individuality."

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they do. the reasons for which i think should be obvious.

[nachetanya]

Well, you did chose to be part of a collective.

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my choices LEAD ME to this collective. i didn't "choose" in a traditional sense.

[nachetanya]

Do you regret it?

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[ There's...a longer delay. ]

i don't know. i don't regret what i did it for. but i wish i wasn't here.

[nachetanya]

Did you join to achieve your goals?

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no. far from it.

[nachetanya]

I'm so curious about that!

But alright, instead, I'll tell you one of my plots with Dozzu? Or a memory from childhood, whichever you prefer.

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it's something i don't really like to talk about.

tell me about your childhood. that sounds nice.

[nachetanya]

Alright.

You know that I'm the princess of Piena, and until the civil war happened, I grew up in Piena's palace, surrounded by maids and guards. Though most of my childhood, the relationship between my mother and father was actually pretty good, though it worsened by the time my older brother died.

Though, naturally, it's not as if a princess has many friends. Or indeed any friends that you can call an "equal" - I played with my older brother, tormented my maids, and I tried to spend as much time as I could with my mother and father. The whole time seems much simpler now, but I think it was lonely sometimes.

It really all changed when I met Dozzu. Like I said, I was introduced to him very young, though I wasn't accepted as one of his "comrades" until a few years later. But he's... Ah, I just realized, you do remember his form, right? He looks something like a dog, and later in life he would actually impersonate my dog, Porta. In any case, when I was young, I really thought it was cute how such a wise and experienced voice came out of the mouth of something so cute.

So I wanted to play with him *all* the time.

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[ Actually, it takes the Transmitter some time to read this over. Five, seven minutes or so. Definitely more time than is warranted. ]

sorry i had something to attend to.

would you say outside family dozzu was your first friend then? it's good that you had him in your life.

[nachetanya]

[ It's a little strange to not get a reply promptly. Nachetanya waits for a long while, but actually gets up to write some things in her diary before she comes back. And when she sees it ]

I hope it wasn't too serious. Our lives are in your hands to some extent.

I would though, after a sense. Now that we're comrades it feels strange to call him a friend.

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it was nothing like that, don't worry.

why can't he be both? your comrade and friend.