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The name's Morgan, and something on that anon post caught my eye. A question about staying here, rather than going home. If it's possible. If it's okay.

I don't know about Avalon. It's possible when all this ends, Avalon won't exist any more, because its purpose was served. But I can say this: if anyone doesn't want to go home, I will find a place for you. No one should have to go back to a world where they'll be mistreated, or miserable, or end up dying in days, or whatever your circumstance that means you're happier being here than there.

I live on a nexus world, a place where a lot of worlds and universes overlap and connect. Sort of like Avalon itself. It's not a paradise, it's far from perfect, but it's somewhere you can go if you want. I'll find a way to make that happen for damn sure. A ritual performed here, I hope, at the end of the last day. And if that doesn't work... I have some friends and family to whom nothing is a barrier that can't be overcome, and we will find a way to get you away. There or elsewhere.

It isn't fair that anyone should be drawn here to save everything, then sent back home without a second thought to what might happen. And if your response to that is, 'well, life's not fair', I'll make it fair.

Don't be afraid to relax, to hope, to enjoy yourself here. Life's too short for that. But... I'll also take any help anyone's offering to make this vow of mine come true.

[Morgan chuckles a little awkwardly, before shrugging and ending the message.]

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Whatever the case, I do think our time here is a gift rather than a curse. I think that outlook depends on whether you believe that time and space are frozen, as they've told us.

I guess the only way to be sure on that would be to go back home and see. I'd hope nobody back home is missing us though. I mean, probably really, only Shishou might really care if I were missing, but everyone would be out looking for Tohru.

[She had friends and family who cared. Well, Kyo did too but the Sohma were....complicated. In his relationship with them because of being the Cat and all. He doesn't want to think on how worried the rest of them would be if Tohru were missing.]

I'm inclined to believe it, because I have friends who wouldn't have let me just sit here if I'd disappeared on them. [And more than enough power to do something about it, as well.] Considering time as well as space are in flux here as well, I think being returned to when we left is the end result no matter what.

Yeah, what I've been told when I got here. That people back home don't miss us or anything. At least. I know what I'm going back to, so. It's fine. I'm the one that made that deal with Akito anyway.

[For that chance at being accepted into the Zodiac. For the chance to be free. Even if there wasn't a huge chance he would manage to defeat Yuki.]

I don't expect everyone or even most people will want to stay, but... even one is enough to make exploring the option worthwhile, right?

I guess, ideally it would be good to have the option. For whoever does want to stick around or doesn't want to go back home. People probably have their reasons for whatever they prefer to do. Come from various situations back home.

[Just because Kyo is resigned to his, doesn't mean everyone else is or should have to be.]

Yeah, although I think it's also important that people have a chance to think about their choices. This would be a terrible thing to spring on people at the last second. Like suddenly everything's good and someone pops up demanding they choose THAT INSTANT.

[Still better than no choice at all, but a surprise like that will almost certainly lead to regrets and sadness.]

Well, yeah. Give people time to figure what they want to do. If it is going to be an option. So they know it's there, rather than assuming they have to go back.

[Make people aware of the potential option. So they can consider and debate on having that choice at least. Kyo can't speak for everyone else in what their situations are but there were probably some among them that might prefer not to go back home for whatever reason.]

And time to make sure it's an option. I don't think there's anything here we can take for granted.

[Don't get him wrong, he'll find a way if it takes everything he has, but he'd sure LIKE to have some help.]

Yeah. Time to figure out how to go about it, if it is possible. Time for them to be able to decide. It's not something to take lightly. To be done too easily, I imagine. Not that there's any way I could help, but. For anyone that would prefer that option. I hope it does work out.

[They deserve that. Even if Kyo himself is resigned to his fate. Doesn't mean everyone else has to be.]

Hey, hold on. How the heck do you know there's nothing you can do to help? Anyone can do research. Or share something they've learned that might help. Or participate in a magic ritual. Or just spread the word, and commit to helping others who might need to hear this, and believe in it.

I guess spreading the word. I'm still figuring my magic here though and I don't immediately see how animal or blood magic would help with getting us home or not.

[So it depends on how this works perhaps but Kyo isn't anticipating he can do much if anything himself towards this.]

Rituals, the big stuff, usually just need willing participants. So if it's a big ritual, anyone willing to contribute can. If not, who knows?

I guess. Depending on the ritual. I might be able to help. I'm not used to this stuff. Magic or whatever. Didn't have it back home.

[Outside of the Sohma curse. And he's still. Not told anyone here about that.]

Well, plenty of time and incentive to get used to it. [Considering how many things they have to keep functioning around here, not a day seems to go by...] I figure we all need to. We got it, after all, so it must be important.

Yeah. The animal magic isn't so bad. It's the blood magic that freaks me out.

[Out of what he has anyway. He's not the most keen on the blood magic given his beads history, the beads around his wrist that stop him, back home, from taking his True Form as the Cat of the zodiac.]

That's pretty understandable. A lot of magic can drain you and leave you weak, but the connection is so rarely that explicit.

[Of course, Morgan thinks that might be a good thing in a way -- the limit IS pretty darn visible, and it takes nothing away that the body won't replenish in time anyway.]

Yeah. I at least want to figure how to control it. Even if I don't like or necessarily would use it much if at all.

That's good. A lot of people would just avoid it entirely. You're welcome to drop by my dojo sometime and I'll do what I can to help you out.

I mean. Learning to control it seems the safest option. The best thing to do. Safest. I'll come by. Shishou's dojo back home was pretty much where I grew up, anyway.

I grew up in a boarding school oriented around martial arts, myself. A pretty good way to grow, if you don't have your first choices, I think!

A boarding school? Not sure if I could do that. I just went during the day and then stayed with Shishou. I mean. Before moving in with Shigure but even then I spent a lot of time at the dojo training and helping Shishou out with the newer, younger kids.

Oh, well, I didn't have a ton of choice in the matter. Had to live somewhere and get looked out for by someone, right?

Yeah. Even after losing my mother and my father basically blaming me for it and all but disowning me. I still had Shishou. His place, his dojo.

[Ugh. That sucks, and Morgan lets out a small sigh.]

A lot of the time, family has no relation to blood at all.

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