[Text] From Late Night

[matchbreaker]

[ I mean she's still out in Magatus but there's a thought which has sort of lingered in the back of her mind for a while now and as such more to clear her mind from thoughts of wolves and the thoughts of her own son (including of all things puns, why??? she's going to put out vaguepost in the form of: ]

So does anyone else have children in the memories they've been getting?

To answer my own question the woman I am in my memories has a son and then her son has three children as well.

[ So this tbh pretty young looking 41 year old is a grandmother in her memories but that's beside the point. ]

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[livingimpaired]

I believe the point is clear.

But isn't it all right?
It means that they care about those children just as you care about your children.
Even if it is worrying about another life.
Even if there is no certainty that it won't be worthless concern.
There is still meaning in the action.

[matchbreaker]

Maybe, but there still isn't an end to it, or even really an outlet.

[livingimpaired]

Isn't that also fine?
As you said, love isn't finite.
So why should there be an end?

[matchbreaker]

[ Because that family is dead. And the chances of them being alive again involve meeting a stranger who used to be them. ]

It doesn't, but an outlet would be nice, that's all.

[livingimpaired]

Are you looking for someone to listen to your worries and complaints, perhaps?

[matchbreaker]

Who knows, maybe! Even I'm not sure.

I'm sleeping in a wolf den after all.

[livingimpaired]

A wolf den?
There is surely a story there.
But could it be that you've regained something?
Or is it the gloom of the den getting you down, I wonder?

[matchbreaker]

No it's just literally what it sounds like! I'm out in that Magatus region and we're looking into some wolf attacks.

[livingimpaired]

[ That's much less interesting. ]

Oh! I see.
Are you all doing all right?
That sounds like it could be dangerous.

[matchbreaker]

Yeah no I'm fine. We appeared them with jerky.

[livingimpaired]

So they are now a little more tame?

[matchbreaker]

More like I'm never sure they were that wild to begin with.

[livingimpaired]

Then why the attacks?

[matchbreaker]

That's what we're looking into!

Everything's clearly more complex than just some aggressive wolves at this point

[livingimpaired]

Is that so?
I suppose that explains why you are in a wolves den.

Does that mean that something is doing the attacks and the wolves are being blamed, then?

[matchbreaker]

Maybe! I think it might be more like something is forcing the wolves to attack. That Carlisle man seems to think it's "magic rabies."

[livingimpaired]

"Carlisle man?"

Something forcing the wolves to attack.
Do you know who they are attacking?

[matchbreaker]

You know, the one who sent out those texts at the top of the month and brought us out here? I heard you guys in the city got even more texts from him.

And yes! This little village up here.

[livingimpaired]

Ah, him.
I had forgotten about him.

[ Why is Kei like this? The world may never know. ]

No.
I did word that poorly.
My apologies.
Who in the village are they attacking?

[matchbreaker]

Livestock, mostly. They've also killed wild game and isolated the people here more than they already were. They also harass or attack people who go into the woods or too near this old ski lodge apparently.

The town's been fighting them since October.

You seriously forgot about him?

[livingimpaired]

Mysterious.
I cannot actually see any sense in what they're doing.
Other than attempting to drive the people out.

I have been busy.
I can't remember every man that sends a message and vanishes.

[matchbreaker]

Well he is someone from Retrospec who actually responds back. At least to us, but his initial message included an inbox too I think?

But no, I couldn't either, it's why I decided to try to communicate with them. Well, that and I was with two young women who wanted to try even more than me.

[livingimpaired]

Maybe?
Anyway, you seem fond of him.
I'll do my best to remember he exists and maybe speak to him later.

Dragged along by youth, hm?

[matchbreaker]

I don't know if you noticed yet, but people our age on this app almost feel like anomalies sometimes. Just 20-somethings everywhere.

I wouldn't say fond, per se, though. More that he's been more forward than anyone else, and I can speak with him as evenly as possible with a Retrospec employee.

[livingimpaired]

Ah, I see. Still... be proud, Elda Marker.
I don't know about you, but my twenties were not an enjoyable time.
My late thirties are not shaping up to be much better.
But I can honestly say I would rather keep moving forward than backslide for the sake of feeling young.

It's being drawn into the sense that you're able to talk to someone who has control.
And that you can feel familiarity with someone like that.