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[Those who know Vash may have been noticing slight differences about him the past week to two weeks. He's not around as much, taking longer and longer walks through the forest. Visiting the spot where he once fought Wolfwood and Legato more and more.

Today he leaves his house extra early and spends most of the day at that spot. He has his journal and will answer it if someone wants to get a hold of him, but will not be using it himself. He'll return to the village later in the evening and finds a quiet place to sit at Good Spirits with a bottle of cheap whiskey.]

There's so much life in this place... and yet... [No one knows the terrible things I've done.]

[He'll be there until the place looks like it's about to close up before stumbling his way back home. It's on his way that he takes his journal out and speaks into it with the slightest slur to his voice.]

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On this day, back home... the city of July was destroyed. I know - I know you all couldn't know the people there. I just, I just don't want them to ever be forgotten and how they lost everything in a single moment. [He stops speaking for a moment. His voice breaking as tears start to fall from his eyes.] And I'm so sorry.

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I guess... you could say it was some sort of beast.

I can't even begin to tell you how often that happened on my planet.

Yeah? I hope not your world didn't lose as many people as mine did with those attacks.

Of course not! Everybody had fair warning to get away before anything happened. Wouldn't they? [At least, he kind of assumes so.]

Not where I'm from. It all happened and ended in an instant.

[Eggman just blinks for a moment. This is heavy stuff.] All of them, destroyed?

In the blast... no. No one died in the blast. But that's a lot of people who suddenly found themselves without shelter, food, or water on a desert planet. Not many survived.

[Eggman's always accepted that there's going to be some collateral damage in hus plans. You don't ascend to greatness without killing a hedgehog or two, but leaving people to die in a desert sounds too grisly even for Eggman.]

Why didn't anybody rescue them? Isn't that what hero-types like yourself are for?

Where were they to go? The nearest city was too far away. Back home cities are days apart if not more and it's difficult to travel between them. Gunsmoke isn't an easy planet to live on.