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[redwinekindofgirl]

So... few of us here have come from other places, right?

[She tucks her hair behind her ear and a few of the shorter strands fall forwards again. Annoyed, she puffs them out of her face with a quick exhale.]

I guess that doesn't matter, really-- Would you want to forget it all?

[Julie pauses, then adds some clarification.]

Where I've been, people didn't remember stuff after they left. Sometimes they'd come back and not remember they'd been there. Would you want that, or... would you want to remember?

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[redwinekindofgirl]

Hmm.

[She's going to give a tart reply, but she bites it back.]

So, everything's an opportunity, huh?

[vosseeker]

No, but it's better to treat everything as the potential of an opportunity.

[ There's plenty of unwelcome things he'd like to purge from his memory banks too, but pride and spite more often dictate him. ]

[redwinekindofgirl]

Is that what you do?

[He has a point, she supposes.]

[vosseeker]

[ haughtily: ] Yes. I did not rise to my position, nor keep it, by throwing away any chance to gain the upper hand.

[ Except Starscream is hardly someone to aspire to emulate in the personality department... ]

[redwinekindofgirl]

Hmn.

[Given that Julie kind of rose to her own place by accident, she can't relate, but... maybe that isn't too much of a bad thing.]

So if you evaluate something and think it doesn't give you any advantage, what do you do?

[vosseeker]

Then I consider it a lesson learned.

[ Forgive him, the Decepticons aren't exactly a faction good for interpersonal relationships. ]

What is it you wish to purge from your memory? I feel as though this question was less abstract than you would have had people believe.

[redwinekindofgirl]

Didn't think it was an abstract question.

[In her experience, people don't ask things like that unless they are having the same kinds of thoughts. But from how Starscream responded, she sees where he might have got the idea.]

And I dunno. There's a lot of things. I haven't exactly had a trauma-free life.