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Back where I'm from, there were never any seasons like there are here.

Every bit of the weather was controlled and left up to the desires of the people. Did more people want it to rain? To be sunny? For flowers to bloom, letting their petals float away on a breeze? Everything left up to a vote.

It feels strange to watch everything turn dull and quiet with nothing's input but Nature's own, and just as stranger to know that it will all bloom once more very much the same way.

Do you think that most situations can be like that- a two way street that has the possibility to flourish or fade away?

Or are there things that can't ever be changed from 'good' or 'bad' once they've happened?

Just some thoughts on a nice day.

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Whatever makes them satisfied. Some people aren't content until they've railed against everything they can. Others just stop, having decided what they want to do.

I'll admit it's probably different for every situation, however. I don't know everything.

Mm. I certainly know some people who are like that. Everyone is different, so not everyone is going to decide to do the same thing.

Another reason why it seems like voting on the weather would never have people reaching any sort of consensus.

Most of the time, they narrowed it down to one or two options. When I was there last, you could vote for a light rain or snow, for example.

[Well, that makes it...a bit simpler, he guesses. No less strange, though.]

Assuming that all would eventually get access to voting, do you think such a system was ideal?

If everyone did...

Well, everyone would get a say. At the same time, there's no guarantee that things would be alright. After all, people can be influenced. If someone with cruel intent but enough talent came along to convince them to vote for things that ultimately hurt them, then that same system could be used to hurt.

Maybe not even cruel intent. Sometimes something happens, and everyone else takes it causing unfortunate things to happen. I'm more familiar with that.

Still... I like to think that system worked for us on some level. It wasn't perfect, but nothing is. Perfection varies too much from person to person, situation to situation.

Regardless of how successful or not it actually was, was there a particular reason you chose to devise a system that provided a choice? I assume that being able to control when it would rain would be useful in its own right for the purpose of growing crops or keeping the land in a certain state...but I'm sure there was likely more to it than just convenience.

I'm not the person who made it, you know.

I meant "you" as in your community. Or whoever designed it, then.

[Sure you did.

Not that that means she would be any more likely to know.]

I still don't know. The system has been in place ever since I was born.

I'm not sure if anyone does, actually. Cloudbank's history is mostly lost. There was someone who was making headway on unearthing more of it, but she's gone to the Country now.

[That sentence contained more things Nagi doesn't know than he does, so he'll just...let them go, for now.]

I see.

If that is the case, things here must be particularly strange for you beyond...most of the usual things.

I like it. If there were more people I knew here, it really wouldn't be bad at all.

It's fine when it isn't snowing several feet in every area.

Not a snow person?

No. I'm not very fond of the cold.

Do you want to borrow one of my fire types? They can help keep the chill away.

My second Pokemon was a fire type. I'm fine.

But still not warm enough?

Considering that I've been on the road a lot recently, sometimes even a good fire type isn't enough.

i know that feeling... Be sure to bundle up, alright?</font?

I will do my best.

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