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Oh, um, probably my fault, [she answers sheepishly.] I was so caught up in-- arriving. I'm Willow.

When you're talking about the Afterlife, do you mean here or somewhere else? And... [She hesitates, but says sincerely,] I'm sorry that you died.

[He smiles, and says somewhat cheerfully]]I'm Otonashi. And it's okay, we all have to die sometime right?

Ah wait...I'm sorry, that may not have been the right thing to say... [Stupid, she just died!]

[He pauses for a bit to collect his thoughts]

This could be just another version of Afterlife. The one I came from is just a normal high school though, not a boat that's sailing through...wherever this is.

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No, we do all have to die sometime, but. [Willow frowns.] Sometimes it's not the right time. If we can fight destiny, why shouldn't we?

[She doesn't seem offended, just like she has strong feelings on this that she's trying not to inflict on him.]

Wait... you were in a different Afterlife before this? [She stops, her eyes widening.] And it was a high school? Are you sure it wasn't, uh, hell? [Look, her high school was on top of a portal to hell, it's a legitimate question.]

Well, you can't find everything all the time. Sometimes, you just gotta heighten your sense of adaptability and accept things as they are. That's what someone told me anyway...
[Not that it helped him much, at the time...]

[He smiles a bit as he recalls:]
And I don't think it was hell. It was kinda like this, sort of...
Just a bunch of people trying to find peace...

Maybe you can't fight all the time, but some things you can't give up on, [she counters, visibly determined.] They're... they're worth it.

... Did that work? [She grows more quiet, not wanting to be insensitive on what might be a delicate issue.] Did anyone find peace?

[He nods to her first point.]
Yeah. Some things are worth it.

[There's a bit of silence on his end as he pieces together his thoughts. Everyone who had left had achieved some kind of desire fulfilled, or accepted the fate of their previous lives. He had found his own peace, but that was shattered when Kanade had left.

But he couldn't let Willow know that. He had to keep hope alive, somehow.]

[He smiles, but it doesn't quite reach his eyes:]

It took a while, but eventually people moved on.

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[She's pleased to be agreed with, even if it deflates her. If there's nothing to argue, she doesn't have a lot of energy.] And this is... this is worth it. Some people shouldn't stay dead.

[Willow actually doesn't mean herself here, but the story of Buffy was one much too long and personal to explain.]

So it does work? Or at least that one does? I guess I'm just-- leery. I'm mighty leery of this whole thing.

Yeah..it works. [There's that sad smile again.]

What's to be concerned about? Once you graduate, you can choose to start again...right?

But why? [she presses.] Why are they doing this, what are they getting out of it? Who is they?

There's so much we don't know. [Willow's frowning, the subject sincerely bothering her.] And a wise man once said not to trust anything that you can't see where it keeps its brain.

[So that man was Arthur Weasley. He was wise!]

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