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One must imagine you dazed upon your return, as if in the throes of a particularly persistent jetlag, a body that had forgotten the rhythms of the living world after dreamed eons. Oh, whatever, so you hung out in your room and played some video games for a while! For a couple of years. Honestly, who could even blame you.

But remember well, Vriska, that life is always, always, ALWAYS just beginning; that everything else was always just a warmup and your greatest works are always still ahead of you.

"So don't delay, act now.
Supplies are running out.
Allow--if you're still alive--
Six to eight years to arrive.
And if you follow? There may
Be a tomorrow, but if
the offer's shunned:

You might as well be walking on the sun."

-- 'Earthsong: Poetry Of The Old World', by Polly Crocoscholly (P.V. 0005, Shell-n-Scale Publishing)

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