♕ 008 warden filter voice

[breathoflight]

[Snow has been thinking. A lot. About deals and going home and everything. She feels like she's at a crossroads. She's recently been unpaired from her inmate, which she supposes isn't like losing her inmate, but it's still a little discouraging. It would be simple to just return home. Let that be that.]

[But she's started to wonder if it's just her deal that keeps her here. She's started to create bonds and friendships here that she knows she'd miss dearly if she were to return to her world. In short, she doesn't know what that means.]

How many of you have intentions of returning to your world once you have succeeded with your inmate? Do you wish to return simply because the deal you have arranged is all that you have left to do or wanted to do in the first place?

Or must you return?

[Snow hesitates a moment before adding:] Have any of you changed your mind?

Comments

[surfaceshine]

A lot of people here have those. Legitimate reasons not to go back. Beginning with the fact that lots of 'em are actually dead.

And wardens generally don't just pop in here for no reason, or because they've got shit they can fix on their own, either.

[breathoflight]

Forgive me, I meant in my case. I have a duty to my people and to my kingdom to return.

[surfaceshine]

That sounds like it blows.

[breathoflight]

I'm sorry, I don't understand...

[surfaceshine]

Duty. It usually blows goats. Especially to something as big as a kingdom and the people in it.

[breathoflight]

[Snow finally catches onto his meaning. Sort've. Modern slang is so goshdarn confusing. :'c]

I do not see my duty as a burden, but it is admittedly sometimes difficult to decide between my personal desires and what is expected of me.

[surfaceshine]

[And Dean is probably not very helpful in this arena. He is also, fortunately, used to it by this point.]

Really? It's never a burden?

Well, give it a few years.

[breathoflight]

Have you no important responsibilities of your own in your world?

[surfaceshine]

I do. That's why I say that with complete and utter confidence.

[breathoflight]

Then why continue if they are such a burden?

[surfaceshine]

What other reason is there? Because they're worth it.