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It has been over sixteen years since they opened their eyes to this new world that they had once created in the other world, a place they hated with all their beings. It was a world with no great purpose or anything that actually motivated them to do anything at all.
The main reason they started creating their virtual worlds in their unique homes was perhaps mainly because of the very fact that the world they were in wasn't even worth living in.
They were bored and broken, however, starting with their first virtual world to the one they lost, and ultimately to the ones they continued to be in even after the loss of one of their best creations, they lived away from their own world, in a place that was not the reality.
They were together in that time, they had been together in that world. They were ONE. And, there was no greater joy for them than just being in the presence of each other...