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[Things have settled down. Between experiments, amusement parks, abductions and drafts, this is the first nice calm stretch of time he's had in a while. So Mulder's hanging out in the Battle Dome. He's been coming there a lot more lately. The new features interest him, and there are places from home he can't help revisiting. Not always to fight, since it's no longer required, though he throws those scenarios in sometimes too. But mostly he's in there obsessively going back through particular scenes.]

[At the moment, Mulder can be seen sitting in the living room where Samantha disappeared from. The board game Stratego is still set up in place near him, the game left unfinished. It's exactly as the room looked all those years ago. A blinding bright light flashes somewhere in the background.]

I wonder what determines the point in time we're taken from? It appears entirely random from all that I've encountered so far. Almost like someone's throwing darts at a timeline or choosing those times out of a hat. A really ugly hat. I also wonder... why some people are brought here after death. [Jonathan. Gem. ...Sigh.] It doesn't seem fair, to grant someone a new life only to throw them back eventually anyway.

...speaking of that, I've been curious about something for a while. [And needing to expand his files, he's already delved into kidnappings, revival has always been somewhere on his list too.] If anyone who's died before, either here or at home, wouldn't mind indulging me for a couple of questions? I won't ask how it happened or anything, just... some related details on the topic. Thanks in advance.

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Not at all. In my case, with the end of my life also came the end of its purpose. Without that meaning, living itself is no better than death. It isn't a state I ever wished to return to.

That's correct.

Maybe it's a matter of finding a new purpose? Though I suppose that's easier said than done...

[Mulder wouldn't know what to do without his purpose, he can't imagine losing it.]

Do you have any memory of anything happening between dying in your world, and waking here? Anything at all, even if it's just a fragment...

Much easier. Although I will admit, there are things I've found in this new world worth treasuring.

[But Homura won't go into details. No doubt that soon, one of those "treasures" will be reading this journal entry herself, if she isn't already.]

Nothing. I can give you details of the events before my death, and after I awoke here, but nothing between.

That's good. I think here more than anything, we need to find that meaning.

[Or go crazy. Crazier. All of the experimentation and losing people and so on is enough to break even the toughest people.]

What was that like, when you woke?

Indeed.

[And Homura agrees wholeheartedly with what they leave unsaid, as well. However, considering how close to that line he's walked as of late, it's a topic he won't speak of.]

Bright, and cold. I woke up in a field close to the village. It was in November of last year, to give you an idea of the weather.

And I was unharmed. I died when I was impaled by a staff, but there was no trace of that wound. Simple things like that realization surprised me the most, in those waking moments. That I felt no pain, and that I could move, and breathe.

[Good, good, this is the kind of detail he's been hoping for.]

Was there anything else unusual or wrong that you noticed at the time?

[Homura considers it for a moment.]

Aside from the usual wings and the restriction of powers, no. I had been stripped of my clothing as is the case with many, although mine were nearby.

So it was all in all a typical New Feather experience, you would say? There's nothing else missing, as far as capabilities or memories?

Correct. Outside of the typical experiments and restrictions, I've remained unchanged.

Good. Thank you. That information helps, believe it or not.

It's something that's puzzled me for a while now... when they initially revive someone here, they arrive perfectly fine and whole, and yet... people who die here get the penalties. I wonder why there's a difference.

According to the Malnosso called Catherine, that particular organization isn't responsible for bringing us to this world, but the enclosure itself. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

Or it could simply be that they want whole subjects for their experiments. I have yet to discern the reason for myself.

Hm... that's true... Maybe whatever force initially pulls us here is capable of making us whole, a capability the Malnosso themselves appear to lack.

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