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[Evented or not, Lithuania's wandering the park on his own today--his birthday. Being away from home feels awkward, none of his people are here and he feels like he should be doing things when he's so lacking in resources. He'll spend time with Koharu later, he supposes, which will make things a bit better, or at least provide a distraction. Maybe he could make a cake for himself or something.

It's just not the same without his people, and that he can't even feel them due to being human leaves a gaping emptiness in him. He's humming his anthem without realizing.]

I wish I had my flag...

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[[His wandering takes him straight past Theta, and she looks up at him with a curious expression.]]

You could always sew one yourself. There's plenty of fabric to be had.

[Lithuania smiles a bit.]

Ah, I should have, I suppose. I guess I just got busy--adjusting and everything. Too late for today, but...

There's always tomorrow...

Though in this place I'm not sure that's a good thing.

[That gets a dry laugh.]

I just meant today because it's my birthday. In my world, I regained independence in 1918 today.

Ah. Congratulations, then. I...try not to think about my birthday, myself. ...I don't want to have been here that long...

[Obviously asking about her birthday would be a bad idea.] I guess I was just thinking it was odd not to be home for it.

I can rather imagine. If it's any consolation, you'll go back to the instant you were taken from when you return home.

Ah? That's convenient, though it seems like it would give a bit of whiplash time-wise.

[[An involuntary shudder goes down her spine, and she closes her eyes as she takes a breath, trying to keep herself from reliving the memories of when she'd been sent home for a few days and then brought back. It wasn't the time that disoriented her. It had been how much she'd changed.]]

Time isn't as much of a problem as you'd think. Other things are...far more pressing.

[[She opens her eyes and gives him a weak smile, but it's obvious she's troubled.]]

Other things? [His tone is a bit gentler than it was, though it's hardly usually forceful.]

When you go back...you don't remember this place at all. Then you come back and remember...the change in behaviour... This place changes who you are.

[He pauses to think about that.]

I suppose it would be impossible for it not to. We're a product of our experiences, after all.

[Of course, his people dictate his behavior at home, so he's a bit more calm about the idea of radical shifts in thought than a human might be.]

I've gotten whiplash just from comparing myself to myself on a trip home...

Would it be better or worse if you remembered Mayfield when you returned?

[[Now there's a question she hadn't even considered. Theta doesn't rightly know what to say to that, and it leaves her stumped, somewhat staring at him awkwardly. And then...under the stress and strain of Mayfield and without the support she's so used to having, a bit of her resolve cracks. She deflates, the mask falling and suddenly looking her own age.

Theta Buckley, Theta Buckley, Elizabeθ Buckley, the name wasn't hers any more but a larger-than-life persona, a face that she wore for the media. A media that wasn't here and wasn't watching her actions. Theta Buckley was a twenty one year old man who'd never been away from her parents aside from university. It was catching up with her suddenly and it was a lot to bear.]]

I'd...rather I could tell my father about it...

[lithuania's struck with how young she looks suddenly--although, realistically she looks physically older than him. But really, she can't be that much older in that respect.]

You've always returned here before. Once there's a chance to really go home, maybe you'll get the choice to remember or not.

I don't want to remember if I'm going to be stuck. I don't...want to know what I'm leaving behind...

I'd rather be here until we break free. I'd rather go to my Darling's world than go home... Even if I'd miss my parents and my country...

[Lithuania can only vaguely understand that. No, intellectually it makes sense, but as a nation, he can't imagine ever having that sort of conviction not to return. But that's one of the differences between nations and humans, maybe.]

That's the difficulty, isn't it... I can't claim to know anything really about this place, but if it got us all here, in one place, then I don't see why we couldn't use that technology if we found it.

[Portals between worlds and times... Wouldn't that make a mess of things?]

[[Probably, but Theta's too selfish to care.]]

Mm, that's my assessment of the situation as well. Whatever's brought us here can't be an inherent power unique to one person.

[Lithuania knows better than to think that technology like this can be bottled back up once it's discovered.]

If it's a machine or something, it would just be a matter of figuring out how it works...

The ergaleomancers of my world would be able to replicate it if it's purely mechanical in design. Or even partially magical. It's only going to be truly difficult if the process is inherently and mostly magical.

And there's no magic at all in my world. I guess it depends on how it got us here in the first place.

My guess is technological. This farce of a world is too technological to have been spawned by magical origins.

Unless they found a way to augment it from some other world... [Dry laugh.] This is the oddest conversation I've had in a while. Trying to figure out how some sort of--dimension teleporting device works.

It could be worse. I think the strangest conversation I've had here was with England...

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