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[inkyubeytor]

_{[When the feed comes on a white little paw pulls back from the camera, showing a rather pleased looking Kyubey (well, as pleased as he always seemed to look), curled around a Pillsbury cookie dough container. Held between his paws it seems as if he's chewed the top of the wrapper off, one paw dirtied with cookie dough that he's certainly been licking it off from. He seems to be outside, laying in a patch of clover.]}

How many of you believe in the concept of luck?

_{[He seems to pause to try and fish out more dough, licking it from his paw once he succeeds.]}

The shamrock is a symbol of luck and has been for countless centuries.

_{[And he seems to release the container out of his grasp only to sit up, shake himself off and paw at the ground, plucking a rather large shamrock with four leaves (how lucky) out with tiny little teeth. Sitting back on his hind legs he takes it between his paws, ear twitching slightly.]}

People are superstitious and believe things will bring them luck, just like this shamrock. But it's nothing more than a plant. It isn't special at all in that regard. _{[And just for good measure he pops it past his unmoving little mouth, chewing and swallowing it with a tiny gulp.]}

Luck itself doesn't exist. Everything that happens in the Universe is based on various measures of chance and probability and the interaction between various causes and effects. Even so, people still choose to believe in such primitive concepts. It makes them feel better, I guess.

Even so, who feels lucky today? What is it like to feel lucky? Would you feel lucky if you had the chance to have any wish of yours fulfilled? Because I can do that. Almost any wish at all and I can grant it. Would you like me to?

Do you feel lucky now?

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voice;

[inkyubeytor]

That's not true. Some people who suffer from depression or suicidal tendencies end up spiraling into despair and end their lives one way or another without help.

_[Pause.]

And that's even without the influence of a Witch's kiss.

voice;

[motioned]

[Paaaause. That was uncalled for, okay.]

Then shouldn't they be getting help from the right places?

voice;

[inkyubeytor]

Do you feel unlucky today, Ahiru?

voice;

[motioned]

I'm fine.

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[inkyubeytor]

_{[Annnnnnnd guess who is creeping out of the shadows, one paw still sticky from the cookie dough.]}

No you aren't.

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[motioned]

[She jumps, scooting back from her seat on the bed until her back is pressed against the wall. After a moment of shock, she sighs deeply, somewhat relieved.]

You scared me!

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[inkyubeytor]

I didn't mean to.

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[motioned]

Okay. [Awk...ward...]

Did you want me to brush you?

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[inkyubeytor]

_{[Hopping up onto the bed he took a seat near her.]}

I wanted to apologize.

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[motioned]

[...Blink.]

Really?

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[inkyubeytor]

Even if I have a hard time understanding emotions, I'm aware enough to know that you are upset with me. So, I want to apologize.

You believe that I have deceived you but that isn't true. I'm not allowed to lie when a contract is being formed or pressure the individual into contracting with me. If someone doesn't ask a question, I won't know to answer it, nor do I want to go out of my way to upset people.

If a piece of information is deemed unnecessary at the time, it's discarded. It's how my kind process information, Ahiru. It's how our minds work. If we wanted to deceive people then we could, quite easily, but that wouldn't be fair. My species came to Earth to help humanity evolve and progress; to reach a level of awareness that would pit them against the rest of Universal Consciousness.

We came to ask people to help our kind stop the Universe from destroying itself via entropy. The energy created when a contract is formed is vital to the balance of the Universe, Ahiru. The dimension this city exists on is just as important to the existence of the Universe - that's why ensuring Witches are stopped is necessary. That's why I have to grant wishes. That's why you and Joe are so important.

I'm sorry, Ahiru.

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[motioned]

[She pauses, wondering if she should trust him even now - until he starts in on protecting the universe. Wordlessly, she shifts, leaving him a place on her lap to sit.]

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[inkyubeytor]

_{[Seeing the spot open up he moves to climb into her lap, curling up contentedly, paws over her leg.]}

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[motioned]

[She pets him idly, staying silent for a few additional moments.]

I just want things to go back to how they were. [Selfish, she thinks, and she's starting to realize it may be an impossibility.]

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[inkyubeytor]

No one can turn back time, Ahiru. They can only alter the outcome of the future.

_[Sometimes.]

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[motioned]

[Suddenly, she feels like she can relate to Rue a little more.]

What if you can't change it for the better?

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[inkyubeytor]

Then you have to continue to move forward. Those who find themselves stuck in the past never survive.

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[motioned]

Never survive?

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[inkyubeytor]

Change is inevitable and impossible to resist. You may not realize it, but everything around you is changing constantly. If things didn't change, there would be no future.

Anything without a future will, by definition, be unable to survive.

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[motioned]

But if we're talking about science and time and stuff, then there isn't a way to get stuck in the past, right? Unless it's time travel, I guess, but I came to the future and I'm fine!

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[inkyubeytor]

You came to a different dimension, a different thread of time and space, Ahiru. It's different.

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[motioned]

But even if it's different, that doesn't mean you can get stuck in the past...

[inkyubeytor]

Not the same past, no.

[motioned]

Wait, how can there be different pasts?

[inkyubeytor]

It's complicated.