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[Reeve and Kadaj haven't been around lately, oddly, and Sephiroth feels somewhat restless, though she's not one to reach out and express her feelings. The Vine is still here for her, however. Quiet companion as it is, she's always found it, a living creature with a definite function, relatable.]

I've been here quite some time. More than a year. A year and two months, approximately. It feels like a significant length of time, but I haven't forgotten my home, my friends, the war. [Yet there's a slight note of resignation in her tone. She's a bit fatigued by her long stay.]

Many people that were once here have gone. [She's not sure, yet, if Reeve and Kadaj will be included in that number.] To those of you who are more recent arrivals, I have made a study of the Gardens throughout the months I've been here. I will be glad to help you, if I can, to offer you any information.

Others, I'm sure, have learned much since they arrived. Perhaps we could pool our knowledge.

How many of you have made significant findings? How many of you wish to discover all we can about this place, to return home? Or are you content to wait?

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And distracting as well, with the little things we must go through.

Even if I were able to find something to focus on I do not know how long continually I would be able to commit.

Yes, all the little tests and trials. They don't ever seem to stop.

I work on my training. And I patrol the Gardens, though it's been some time since anything truly dangerous appeared.

Nothing more? I'm not criticizing, simply...attempting to find a meaningful way to occupy my time.

I understand.

I do run experiments, also, but the Gardens aren't the ideal environment for scientific research, considering the odd effects they have on equipment.

[And she deals with Kadaj, but that's another matter.]

You might train with others. Or teach.

[Ky's going to politely choose not to address the science issue.]

Do you think we're likely to face a large-scale threat here that we could be prepared for?

It seems like people will simply disappear individually instead.

Actually, there have been large scale attacks made on the residents, on multiple occasions, though it has been some time since one occurred. Yet that is no reason to be unwary.

People's disappearances are another matter. They return home. I believe that is a result of the Gardens' inherent instability, not the Queen's doing.

What sort of large scale attack?

You don't believe that the Queen doesn't have to do with the Garden's instability?

On one occasion, there were plants that became monsters and attacked residents. On one occasion, residents of the gardens were turned into monsters and attacked each other. Another time, there was a door to another world opened here. That world, too, was populated by monsters, which came through and attacked in large numbers. Once, robots swept through the gardens, destroying all they came across.

I believe it is due to her unstable nature, or that of her realm, but not her direct doing. It is not her will. She would, to all appearances, and according to her own words, prefer to keep us here.

That certainly sounds quite dangerous.

[And like the sort of thing that should have been mentioned to Ky when she first showed up.]

Are you certain we don't need a force in place to protect ourselves?

Perhaps so, or maybe there's something specific that the people who get sent home did.

It was. People were injured.

I am not certain. I've tried organizing such a force, as have others, but those who were involved or interested have since disappeared. [She's a little fatigued by all this listlessness and lack of organization.]

I have interviewed people who left then returned, the ones who remembered this place and were undeniably the same individuals. They confirmed that hypothesis. They did nothing, and there was no commonality between their circumstances, other than randomly being sent home.

I see. I'll trust the investigation you've done into the topic then.

[Previous people have tried to tell Ky the same thing, but they didn't seem to have anything beyond person experience, if that, to make the argument with.]

Perhaps then the thing shouldn't be some large centralized organization, but something smaller, where experienced people train individuals well enough to fight and well enough to teach someone else if they have to? So it isn't reliant on any particular people.

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