Maybe we should put the "you" example at the end. It might be more impactful there.
What happened? I remember the first entry in the Real Life section being a lot more uplifting.
I kind of needed the RL section tonight, thank you to whoever wrote it!
"Subtle example in the Myth Adventures books. Skeeve takes a D-Hopper to escape to another dimension from Klah, asking for the setting for Klah and Deva. He says that he's running, and Masha responds: "You asked for both settings. You only need one to run.""
In a previous book, it's discussed that D-Hoppers can be set for various locations within a dimension. (Tanda and Skeeve landed in a city in Jakh under her power; later, Skeeve and Aahz land way outside the city by a road when using the D-Hopper.) But Skeeve asked for the 'local' settings. He really wasn't running.
Edited by 69.172.221.6 Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchettguys, note this is somewhat parodies(IN CARTOONS/FICTION) where they try to convince the character they have some value and then it turns out they actually do suck
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