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24. Why?

[snaggleteeth]

Getting tired of waiting. Feels right to pick a day to stop.

There a reason for 24?

[he did take a moment to guess, inside his head. she was twenty seven when she stopped ageing. close. not the same.]

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Waiting for?

It's the number of hours in a day. It's even. It's divisible by a lot of other numbers. It just feels complete to me.

[snaggleteeth]

For this place to let us go.

[it's unthinking, actually. 'we,' instead of 'me.' she did say she resented it, the time added to her sentence, the separation between herself and her rightful rewards.]

Somebody should get to feel complete. Might as well be the number 24.

Would you be different, if you weren't waiting?

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I figured

Might as well, right? I think so too

I used to go on missions for Raíz. There was an expectation to show up when she needed us, or even when she just wanted us around her. I was busier, I guess. Just waiting in a different way, though

[snaggleteeth]

But if you weren't waiting.

If you could decide this was it. Here. Whatever the fuck you have and don't have, without Raiz, but everything she left you.

Would you do anything different?

[he would not be surprised if she said no. the wisdom of the elders, and that.]