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"Well. You have us. You have me, Max, Alexis, Benjamin. You have Clover. You have all of my other friends. Maybe there doesn't need to be a grander purpose behind your existence. Maybe there doesn't need to be some one size fits all explanation for the world but..."
[PERSON OF INTEREST] "Maybe being a rising star that everyone sees isn't a good thing. Maybe it's fine to enjoy the simple things. To just exist in the world without worrying about who's watching."
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] "The City might seem bland and boring and suffocating but I know there's so much untapped potential in it. So many secrets. So many sights and sounds beyond the narrow point of view of what corporate likes."
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] "The stars aren't the only thing that hold importance. You don't need to reach the tiptop of corporate power or public awareness to be something important. Just by existing, you are you."
[UNSTABLE] "You can't change that, Casey. I'm Nicole. You're Casey. No matter what we are, what we do, we have that. You can't fix that. But you can't break it either."
"Sometimes, that simple fact is all I need to carry on. To continue existing."
Casey doesn't respond for the longest time. The two of you simply stare at the sky. The shifting, star-lit sky. But eventually, Casey just laughs to herself. A genuine laugh. A laugh a human would make. Not just a bee, or a drone, pretending to be one.
"Maybe you're right. I'm just Casey. Maybe that is enough."
>+0.5 RAPPORT WITH CASEY!
She slowly gets off the ground. You quickly hop off the ground alongside her. "I don't know why I was thinking those thoughts anyways. This place is REALLY weird, heh~!" She's already gone back to her usual carefree, corporate persona but you can tell there's a shift in her perspective now. A subtle, minor shift but a shift nevertheless.
"Well~! I suppose you deserve a reward for listening to lil' ol me being a doom and gloomer~!" She sticks her tongue out while tapping her head with a balled up fist. "Bleh~!"
"Wow, you really bounced back from that existential talk. Sure, hit me, what's my reward?" You cross your arms with a smirk. It's glad to see her being, well, Casey again. Even if it's really offputting given the tone of the previous conversation.
"Those stars aren't just regular stars~! I heard rumors about if you become a <span class="mu-b">God of the City</span>, you could live up there~! It would be nice to be one of those, you know~?" She coos out with an unnerving amount of lust? Adoration? Obsession? "I heard some rumors that most of the CEOs in this City are striving to become one! Which I don't blame them at all for!"
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] You faintly recall what a God of the City is. It's a term for very powerful, primordial anomalous phenomena that alters how the world works on a fundamental level. An example is the sheer fact that Anomalies exist. Or the fact that Singularities break the laws of the world as you know it. Simple, undeniable aspects of reality.
