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They've apparently remodeled the train station a lot since last week; it seems to be set up to look like a restaurant now.
Sadness goes looking for the train.
Sadness and Aether in Milliways
"There's the imaginary people themselves- I thought you were one when I saw you. And there's also all the people who design and make imaginary things and set up imaginary places and schedule imaginary events. And people who film the vivid stuff."
"Sometimes imagination crews come and film them for daydreams and speculations and so on? When she imagines herself doing things the crew stands in for her."
subtly_artistic
"I mean how does a person being imaginary work? Do you just mean, they're a resident of her mind like you who features in imagination-generation, or do you mean they are - fictitious themselves somehow?"
"I mean they're characters in her daydreams and speculations and that's why they exist. For example, Riley used to have an imaginary friend and he helped me and Joy get back to Headquarters. He's dead now. And recently she's been imagining having a boyfriend a lot and Joy made some copies of him to help us get back to headquarters. They died too. The copies, that is."
"Bing-Bong was on a ledge that collapsed when Family Island did. The boyfriends- Joy got them to stand on each others' shoulders to make a tower with her on top, then throw themselves forward at just the right moment to get her to the cloud I was on and push us both straight towards Headquarters.
Joy isn't good at noticing the downsides of things."
subtly_artistic
"- if Riley imagined them again, would they just be similar people, or would she bring them back to life?"
"She could imagine similar people again, but not exactly the same people.
Oh- an imaginary person could have fallen to their death and survived if they'd done it all in Imaginationland, but these ones fell into the Dump."
"I don't know. So far only imaginary people have died but so far only Joy has fallen into the Dump and survived, and she managed to get out again pretty quickly."
"It's a pit where we throw stuff that isn't worth the space it takes up other places anymore- obscure knowledge, unimportant memories, imaginary stuff that isn't being used anymore, and so on. Stuff left there mostly eventually vanishes, some things quicker than others."