New Years Conundrums

[red_room]

Nat's in a more prominent spot in the Nexus today, with what looks to be a whiteboard stand set up next to her chair in the Forum. She's idly tossing dry erase markers while she observes the people coming and going.

"They say the new year is a time for change, and yet every year people aim so pitifully low. If you could change one thing next year....any one thing, what would it be?"

Inquiring minds want to know! Or, you know, one bored red head with too much time on her hands.

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[red_room]

"Magic, non humans. The works. There's an awful lot here you don't find on a lot of other worlds, that's for sure." Natasha agrees. That is entirely why she's here. To keep this place from spilling into her own world.

Of course, that's all very hush hush.

"Seems a bit unreal, doesn't it?"

[rogueinladysclothing]

"Everything my world doesn't believe is possible exists here. Stepping into this place... it was overwhelming." To understate things greatly. "Understanding helps, but there's no way I could explain enough of it to the people of my world for them to accept it." Not in time to keep them from doing something tragically stupid.

Amelia sighs softly, her gaze slipping from Natasha to the ground at her feet. Her hair pin tinkles lightly, causing her to shiver ever so slightly. "I know what's real by what I've experienced, but I feel like that's never enough."

[red_room]

"I'd say 'you get used to it' but I guess it's no consolation if you don't want to in the first place." Natasha sighs and crosses a leg over the other.

"So...why wasn't your change, 'I want to go home' then?"

[rogueinladysclothing]

A simple question, but a complicated answer.

Amelia smiles wryly. "Because that's something I can still change." Someday. Maybe. ...hopefully. After a moment, she adds, "If I were to go home right now, just as I am, I could do a lot for my world. But that's not what I want. That's never what I've wanted. I look out for me and mine, always have. If I were to go back now, without working for it, I'd fall back into habits that would cost me the one thing I want to change when I go back."

Her answer is honest, unabashed. That look on her face, somewhere between wistful and sad, speaks volumes about the amount of time she's thought about this very same thing. Maybe... she's grown a little more than she thinks.

[red_room]

"So you want to wish for the near impossible, instead." Natasha nods. She thinks she understands.

"It's good to know what you have the power to change, if it's not today."

[rogueinladysclothing]

"Sometimes it's easier to pass off regrets by making wishes about them." There's another wry smile with that one, but it doesn't reach her eyes.

"Change is hard, but it'll be worth it in the end." She shrugs lightly. "I just hope I have people to share the changes with when it's all over."