Practical Philosophy, Monday

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"It's Memorial Day today," Ender said-- after everyone had gathered and he had taken stock of who was there and, more importantly, who wasn't. He'd noted said absence with a raise of his brow and nothing else.

It was a little hard to concentrate on that anyway with all the frogs hopping around, occasionally shedding literal light on the group.

"I suppose it makes sense to talk about loss," he said. "I know Memorial Day honors the men and women who have served us who have fallen in battle, but military service isn't the only service that a human being can commit themselves to. You sit here on a mountain of the dead - of people who worked and suffered and expired so that you can live here comfortably."

Having imparted this cheery wisdom, he sat back.

"So let's start there," he said. "Is there anyone in your life who's since passed whose service led you here today?"

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Re: Talk.

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Yeah right, let's talk about David Clark.

So not happening.

"Actually, I was curious about how and if someone should try to balance life in Fandom and in their own world," Emily said, remembering her conversation with Natalie. "I understand people become, in a way, natives and decide to stay, and others come and go without sticking to a single place. But seeing how even time seems to flow differently...it's a bit odd."

Re: Talk.

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"I suppose it is, but humans are highly adaptable," Ender pointed out. "If they want to be."

Re: Talk.

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"Still...staying here is like forgetting about your world, and going back and forth sounds like living half of them, anyway. I'm thinking of this because I'll leave sooner or later and I wonder if it would be better to just forget about coming back," Emily said gravelly.

Re: Talk.

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"That's a personal choice you have to make," Ender said. Then added, wryly, "If the island lets you make it at all."

Re: Talk.

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"Is it really?" Yeul asked curiously. "How is it odd?"

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"Because when people see you older than you were months or weeks ago...isn't that weird? Like, your friends age in a way, and then you show up different," Emily said, not sure her point was getting across.