004 - Mincemeat

[deadly_ned]

Hello, Barge. My name is Ned, and I have a completely arbitrary and unrelated question to ask.

If you had a minute - 60 seconds - with any person currently dead and could talk and interact with them as normal, alive people would...

What would you say or ask them?

I suppose this question goes to the people who are currently...dead....and have alive people back home they're separated from as well.

It's an odd question, I know. But I've been...curious, lately.



Also, would the elf who took my wallet please give it back now? I hope you remember me; I was the piemaker dressed as a Franciscan monk. I hate to treat the network as my own personal Lost Connections newsletter but I really didn't know what other way to get in touch with you.

And if you're not actually an elf, I'm sorry for calling you one.

Comments

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[bodilesswarrior]

...I'd tell him I've been okay, and that I forgive him. [HAVE ANOTHER ORPHAN, NED.]

Do you remember what this elf looked like?

Private

[deadly_ned]

[TOO MANY ORPHANS]

That's nice. That one I like.

I do. And did. She looks different now. Less alive than before. Which I mean, sometimes happens but now I feel almost...bad, asking for it back.

Private

[bodilesswarrior]

[She smiles, a little.] How about you?

[Then she shakes her head.] And you shouldn't. She doesn't need it here.

Private

[deadly_ned]

Most of mine are boring and would be me spending sixty seconds apologizing for things I did when I was a dumb kid who didn't know the rules.

Technically I don't need it here, either.

Private

[bodilesswarrior]

[Her smile widens.] Oh, I'd need way more than sixty seconds.

But it's yours. It's something from home. That's important, here.

Private

[deadly_ned]

You were a rule-breaker?

I have my something from home. I'll be all right without the twenty-three dollars and eleven cents in $US that I have no way of spending or nothing to spend it on.