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[onerous]

What is it that keeps you living? Why? What makes it worth it to you?

[That’s, uh. That’s it. That’s the message. There’s no follow-up explanation or anything.

She’s just curious and doesn’t seem to see how alarming a question like that out of the blue might be]

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[onerous]

They do say it's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

I think it's because we don't talk about it so much that people find it so scary. Well, part of the reason, anyhow.

Do you believe there's life after death?

[compagno]

If I say that I don't, will it upset you?

[onerous]

No, but our worlds might be different, that's all. I've seen proof of it in my world. Maybe it just doesn't exist in yours'.

[compagno]

Right - like your pictures, I remember. I don't think it works like that in my world.

[onerous]

I see, that's a bit of a shame.

Then again, maybe it does, and you just don't have the ability to see them. It's like that for most people in my world, anyhow.

Either way, I don't think it's wrong to not believe in something you can't see. [...For the most part, anyhow. When it comes to supernatural things.]

[compagno]

That could very well be.

The kind of life after death people are usually trying to convince me to believe in isn't usually full of spirits still wandering around Earth, though.