(I suppose you could say that I've been through that)

"I think I would be pathetic at it," Rhythm said. "I'd probably feel too sorry for the fish. I know how they feel too much."

((I would say that you have.))

"Do someone put you at the end of a hook?"

(Well I'll live. I always do. It's one of the unfortunate things about always landing on your feet.)

"No," Rhythm said. "But I do know how it feels to be dragged out of a place where you feel secure, and to be lost, and away from everyone you know."

((I'd call that a reason to base your life on faith you have something important to do in the world.))

Maikeru's watched beeped silently a small child like song coming from it as he looked down to see it was coming time for him to head home and prepare for his lessons. "Looks like we will have to pick this up the next time we run into each other."

(I have, in a sense. But not in a religious faith. My life is really only important because of my writing.)

"It seems so," Rhythm said, already walking away slightly, but not far enough to mean that she was actually leaving.