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Dante Rantanen

"Hey, you've reached Dante. I'm not in right now--you know what to do."

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[darkinferno]

[Dante's more than willing to follow her into a subject change.]

Oh? Why's that?

[mincingminuet]

I'm not nearly so adventurous for one.

[Going along with it then.]

Half my memories are of these crazy places, and others are full of monsters.

[darkinferno]

You too, huh? [Not the adventurous part, but...] What sort of crazy places?

[mincingminuet]

At least two different mines. A desert, where the sand sort of flows like water in some places. Full of oil rigs too, which is weird.

[But the one she remembers the most...]

And a city. A dead city. Just...empty. Covered in a thick fog. I've never seen anything like it, but a man I hear in my visions sometimes called it a Necrohol.

[Shivering a bit, she drinks more of the soda.]

Ever seen pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear bombs hit? It looked a lot like that. Only, with monsters.

[darkinferno]

[Dante shakes his head, taking a drink. What is there he can say to that...?]

Any idea why you were there?

[mincingminuet]

Couldn't tell you. Other me was scared but seemed like she knew what she was doing, and there was clearly a purpose for it. Treasure hunting maybe.

[darkinferno]

...do you ever wonder why we're getting these memories?

[Dante's staring out at the ocean as he speaks, recognizing how he mimics his other self in that moment.]

Why we're the ones getting them, or what they're trying to do.

[mincingminuet]

All the fucking time?

[She can't keep herself from chuckling a little. It's an unhappy, ugly sound...because she really doesn't want any of this.]

I mean, I heard in Unreality that they are ours. That we have a claim to them. But I don't really know why. Like, what makes us more special than those other people in town.

[darkinferno]

[That they have a claim to them... it makes sense, if Ardyn's reincarnation theory is true. And it's something that he's known himself for a while, that everything he's gotten back is somehow his... it's like he told Alison; he would much rather know he's reincarnated and that what he's seeing is his than to think that it's all at random.]

Our names got drawn from the hat?

[It's dry, sardonic--the best he's got to offer.]

If they do have a reason, I'd like to hear it. But I haven't seen anything to make me think they're organized enough to have a system of who they "wake up."

[mincingminuet]

A part of me thinks it's just who they can catch, at random.

[Which is pretty fucked up. But what can you do?]

But I have a feeling that this is our stuff. That this was our past self, or something.

[darkinferno]

[A nod.]

A while back, the prof and I talked about it. Both of us think it's probably a past life too. It just feels too... right to not be.

[And then he snorts, sitting back on his rock.]

Though who knows? Maybe I'd be saying that if I was remembering the stuff Noah was, too. For all we know it could be Retrospec making us feel like this is ours.

[mincingminuet]

Seems like an awful lot of trouble, and for what purpose? Nah, I think it's ours.

[She believes Surina, having been there for the Sphinx, even if she's keeping it quiet as she processes that revelation.]

Fits too well.

[darkinferno]

[He shrugs.] Probably.

Hey, Pen?

Thanks. For listening.