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So there's all sorts of people here, right? Got all kinds of crazy powers and stuff?

[Rufio is sitting in the center of town on the edge of the fountain, munching on an apple he's just nabbed out of the grocers. (The whole imaginary food thing wasn't working out for him so well out of Neverland.) He wishes the store was manned, in a way. There isn't much of a thrill pilfering food this way.]

Which ones of you don't age?

[Because he's realizing that in this place that list isn't going to include him.]

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Maybe. But that doesn't mean I've gotta say.

If you don't want to answer, I don't care.

[He does actually consider leaving it at that, but...]

If it's of that much interest... I'm among the unaging. Not by natural ability or choice.

If not by that, then by what?

An experiment.

[There's a word people around here are probably tired of hearing.]

Not because of the Malnosso... this happened in my own world. It's a long story.

So some Doc Frankenstein stuck a few needles in you? Sucks you're stuck as an adult, though.

You could put it that way... but being locked in time is only one product of those experiments.

[Interesting thing to say, he'd never thought what it would be like to be eternally a child.]

What is the problem with being frozen as an adult?

Grown ups are... grown up!

Either they're pirates, or they don't know how to have fun anymore.

Is that why you asked about aging? So that you could find a means to remain a child...?

Is it so hard to understand?

No... but I wonder why anyone would willingly choose eternal life.

Why would you want to die?

After decades and centuries were to pass... I could imagine becoming weary of life. Weary of seeing everything and everyone else fade and die around you... while you remain forever unchanging.

[He has spent far too long thinking about what this, knowing it's going to be his experience in the years ahead.]

If I was still in Neverland, none of that would even happen.

All inhabitants of your world are frozen in time...?

[He's been here a while, but that's the first he's come across a world where everyone has that trait.]

Something like that. You don't get any older.

Do many inhabitants of your world remain children?

All the ones that get there like that.

Then it's something in the world itself instead of a physical change that prevents your aging?

More or less.

I understand.

Perhaps one day you will return to it.

Sooner rather than later, I hope.

There's no way of knowing when the Malnosso might choose to send someone away... but it's always possible.

Can't make any requests, huh?

Attempting is futile. Although it's unclear sometimes whether they won't... or can't.

[Some of both, in ways, he's sure there are things they hold back on, but they've also at times proven incapable too.]

I wouldn't want to bring them here on purpose. That's not fair to them.

But if they found themselves here I wouldn't complain. Nah, that's wrong. I'd complain anyway. But I wouldn't be unhappy.

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