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[floret]

Jamie Doh 2 hrs · Recollé

I'm supposed to take the MCAT this Saturday, but of course back when I registered, the city wasn't enclosed in a dome (or a bubble?) and completely isolated from any outside world that might happen to exist. So . . . I hope the exam proctors still show up . . . and that the AAMC server or whatever works? And if not, I really hope this won't count against my maximum allowed attempts. (Can anyone who's already in med school or actually already a doctor please let me know how long it normally takes to die / how long it took you personally to die after the first time you took it?) Also, I just want to verify. There's no historical or, like . . . cultural version of Santa that looks like this, right?

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[floret]

Maybe this is what he looked like after NORAD tried to shoot him down!

[drydrown]

So this is what the wrath might look like, in other words.

[floret]

The Retrospec people did say that all our original worlds were destroyed.
Maybe . . . this is what happened to mine.

[drydrown]

I did say that it's generally a terrible idea to anger the fae.

...In all seriousness, though, hopefully you receive some context for this eventually.

[floret]

I guess knowing is better than not knowing, right? Most of the time.

[drydrown]

[...That's. Mm.]

I suppose. It really depends on how you're taking this whole thing; if you'd rather remain blissfully unaware, I can't say I'd fault you for that, either.

[floret]

I think I'm taking it better now than I was a month ago, at least.

I don't know. They make me uneasy, but the memories themselves don't mean that much to me. I'm more worried about the world we're living in now, you know? Everything feels so unstable.

[drydrown]

To be perfectly frank, those are my thoughts on it as well. But then, I don't put much thought into the memories as a whole - after all, those worlds are supposedly dead and gone, if Retrospec is to be believed. The world I consider mine is here. Recollé is my home, and I'm going to be concerned about what's happening to it now rather than what happened in some world I don't have any attachment to in some lifetime that I don't even remember.

[floret]

Yes. But on the other hand . . .
I guess it doesn't really make any difference, does it? Whether we care about them or not, or whether we're concerned about it or not . . . the memories and changes won't stop, and this world seems like it's going to keep becoming stranger.

I know I shouldn't think about it so pessimistically, but
I don't know.
It just seems like there's nothing we can actually do about any of it.

[drydrown]

Perhaps there isn't. But even in that case, I would think "not ending up dead twice over" seems like a noble enough cause in and of itself.

[floret]

How can we work toward that cause, though? Just by trying not to die?

[drydrown]

...Well, in fairness, that's worked for mankind for about as long as we've been around.

[floret]

That's true!

I suppose I've been feeling unsure about how I should be acting, or what I should focus on. I'm still just selling coffee and worrying about med school and doing homework, but should I be forgetting about all that and trying to figure out the best way to prepare for a supernatural battle for existence?

[drydrown]

Whatever we should be doing, here's hoping the MCAT goes well for you.

[floret]

Thank you, Mr. Cumore. I appreciate it.