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[daughterof_fate]

Leaving Gotham feels like giving up.

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[alex_marsten]

Maybe you're looking at it wrong.

[daughterof_fate]

How do you figure?

[alex_marsten]

Maybe you should look at it as starting over? Just because you leave one place doesn't mean you can't have a future elsewhere.

[daughterof_fate]

I have futures elsewhere. I'm simply sad that this place has become so... empty for me.

[alex_marsten]

Big cities often feel that way. For all the people in them, they're more mechanical than anything else.

[wholenewstory]

I don't think you - leave Gotham. Part of it...stays with you.

[She frowns, and shakes her head.] Sounds silly.

[daughterof_fate]

I'll grant you that, however, there's something different about this one.

[daughterof_fate]

You're not entirely wrong.

[alex_marsten]

How so?

[daughterof_fate]

It's a city unlike any other.

[alex_marsten]

That's been said of a few cities.

[daughterof_fate]

I suppose I'll have to get out more.

[alex_marsten]

That would be my advice to you. Perhaps that's even a reason to leave. So that you can see more of the world around you.

[daughterof_fate]

And what cities do you think I should see?

[alex_marsten]

Paris... Moscow... Berlin... London... Beijing... Tokyo... Hong Kong... Mexico City... Montreal... Anchorage... Oh! And Port Royal, of course. I've heard they give tours of the old part of the city that slipped off the island back in the 1600's. Strange as it is, the city is well preserved even after the quake and sitting under the ocean.

[daughterof_fate]

I've been to several of those and don't possess fond memories of them.

Port Royal. I see. [A small smile.] My family is nothing but sailors, so that might be an idea.

[alex_marsten]

Time to start making some new memories then.

*smiles* It's an amazing place; tons of history - plus, I mean, it's the Caribbean... how can you not love the weather?

[wholenewstory]

[A slight nod.]

Don't think of it as - abandoning.

...Graduating.

[daughterof_fate]

[Brighid hadn't used the word 'abandoning', though now she realizes that it's incredibly accurate.]

I'm not one for cities, but this one has always been a little different.

whoop, wrong vigilante

[wholenewstory]

[She offers a slight smile.] For me, too. It was...home. My first.

I saw nothing :)

[daughterof_fate]

What was your second?

o/

[wholenewstory]

[Her face falls, and her voice goes quiet.]

Bludhaven.

It's - gone, now.

\o

[daughterof_fate]

I'm sorry, I'm unfamiliar with it.

[wholenewstory]

[Her brow furrows.] It's - not far. My - brothers. Were there.

...I was...supposed to protect it.

[daughterof_fate]

[Her face softens.] I am so sorry for your loss.

[wholenewstory]

[Her eyes widen, before she shakes her head.] No, they - they got out. Before.

But...my friends. I don't - I'd never...

[She smiles again, achingly sad.] Except for her. But she's gone, too. It's...why I left.

[She shakes her head again.] But - it was good. While it lasted.

It can be good for you, too.

[daughterof_fate]

[Brighid tries to appease her confusion without prying.] Her?

[wholenewstory]

...My - she was - my first friend.

She...died. In a gang war. She was...she was trying...

She always tried. To make things better.

[daughterof_fate]

[She knew the type.] You miss her very much.

I don't think we've met.

[wholenewstory]

Yes.

[After a moment, she holds her hand out.]

Cassandra.

[daughterof_fate]

Brighid.

[She shakes it and gives her a smile.] How long have you been in Gotham?