'If' is a matter beyond even either of us, despite everything. There isn't much point in attempting to dwell.
[ said the time looper to the other time looper. for all their ability to keep traveling through different 'ifs' ... they more than anyone know the limits of it, don't they? but then again, if pointlessness ever stopped anyone from doing anything then a significant part of either of them would not be who or what they are.
what they say, about committing themselves to waiting, waiting, and waiting. is that penance? is that duty?
both. neither. Homura can't say. ]
... when I was younger I used to believe in the stories. The ones where, despite everything, hope was something attainable. That what they wanted, and what they were trying to reach ... was in fact something that could be grasped.
[ past tense, once again. still, to bring it up if it isn't at least somewhat relevant would be foolish, and they know it as well as her. ]
Will you return yourself to whatever cycle you were caught in once more, then?
[ in a place where who or what they are and think doesn't matter, and are jerked around at the whim of something that wants them to struggle as much as it is endeared to them?
it's not accusing, or anything other than neutral, if questioning. Homura understands the weight of things owed, too, what is and isn't meant to be. ]
no subject
[ said the time looper to the other time looper. for all their ability to keep traveling through different 'ifs' ... they more than anyone know the limits of it, don't they? but then again, if pointlessness ever stopped anyone from doing anything then a significant part of either of them would not be who or what they are.
what they say, about committing themselves to waiting, waiting, and waiting. is that penance? is that duty?
both. neither. Homura can't say. ]
... when I was younger I used to believe in the stories. The ones where, despite everything, hope was something attainable. That what they wanted, and what they were trying to reach ... was in fact something that could be grasped.
[ past tense, once again. still, to bring it up if it isn't at least somewhat relevant would be foolish, and they know it as well as her. ]
Will you return yourself to whatever cycle you were caught in once more, then?
[ in a place where who or what they are and think doesn't matter, and are jerked around at the whim of something that wants them to struggle as much as it is endeared to them?
it's not accusing, or anything other than neutral, if questioning. Homura understands the weight of things owed, too, what is and isn't meant to be. ]