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[confined_to_briah]

( Alexiel is looking a little battered when the feed turns on. Her propensity for wandering the streets - especially at night - earned her more than a few run-ins with falling objects. Yet it's nothing she can't handle. She hasn't even bothered to tend to the wounds. )

For the sake of curiosity...

How many of you have experienced multiple lives? ( i.e. reincarnations etc.. ) I know about the City's ability to revive the dead and that doesn't interest me.

( She shifts the camera so that her current place of work comes into view. There are people nearby eyeing her curiously, but she pays them no mind. )

If you have been reincarnated ( there is no better word for it ), what do you recall of your past lives? What did you learn? Was it worth dying for?

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[confined_to_briah]

I can show you mine. ( It looks like a sword. )

[mortemscintilla]

Really? [ He's genuinely interested. New weapons are always interesting. ] All right.

[confined_to_briah]

( She shifts her communicator so that Nanatsusaya comes into view. It has a very distinct appearance. )

It is said that it possessed all of its previous users.

[mortemscintilla]

[ Round-eyed. ]

So they just summon it when they need it?

Can it cut through anything?

[confined_to_briah]

Hardly. They took their own lives with it.

Nanatsusaya has absorbed rivers of blood.

( A small proud smirk follows that last question. )

With me, it can.

[mortemscintilla]

Have you tried breaking the City Barrier with it?

[ Putting that blade to the ultimate test. ]

[confined_to_briah]

I believe Setsuna has already tried that. ( And since he possesses (but is not possessed) by Nanatsusaya too, she sees no reason to repeat his actions. ) They wouldn't bring us here if it was that easy.

[mortemscintilla]

I wonder why they have brought us here.

So far, it seems to be for their own amusement.

[confined_to_briah]

Entertainment? ( That's all she can figure. )

They don't seem to care for our losses and woes. ( It reminds her far too much of the past. )

[mortemscintilla]

It's like we're a menagerie to them. Or an experiment. One they're not all that invested in, except on choice days. For their own benefits. [ It reminds him of the Syndicate. ]

[confined_to_briah]

They are strangely absent most of the time. I have yet to understand what they are doing in their silent periods. ( Working on something they can't see? Perhaps. )