[Knowing that Mia is still a little scared makes her feel a little better, if only because she's still frightened, too. She bites her lip as she clasps her hands together on the table.]
Yeah...It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen. Like, I keep thinking about all those people. Since they...[She pauses briefly, as if the word is stuck in her throat. Her voice shakes a little.]...died like that, what happens back where they came from? They can't ever go back, can they?
[Until then, she had never doubted for a second in the entire time she's been in this world that she would return home some day. Realizing that there's a chance, however small it may be, that she might not has shaken her. She wonders how many other people have met the same fate. Did they just disappear in their worlds, without a trace? Did they just stop existing? It's disturbing.]
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Yeah...It was the most horrible thing I've ever seen. Like, I keep thinking about all those people. Since they...[She pauses briefly, as if the word is stuck in her throat. Her voice shakes a little.]...died like that, what happens back where they came from? They can't ever go back, can they?
[Until then, she had never doubted for a second in the entire time she's been in this world that she would return home some day. Realizing that there's a chance, however small it may be, that she might not has shaken her. She wonders how many other people have met the same fate. Did they just disappear in their worlds, without a trace? Did they just stop existing? It's disturbing.]