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Has everyone's day been pleasant? I hope so. Isn't it kind of the city to refresh itself and shed all the work we put into it? It's such a nice view to wake up to after these past few weeks.

On the other hand, did anyone else receive a bright red surprise at midnight that didn't disappear after waking up today? If you have a new possibly anxiety-inducing timer that you can't remove, shall we have a pop quiz? Or a poll?

What are we counting down to?

A) the end of the month
B) the end of the world
C) the time until you find your soulmate
D) provide your own answer. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

(If anyone makes a Europe reference, you're dead to me. :) )

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What makes it so impossible to you?

Slowly but surely, people seem to be uprooting the truth. If knowledge is supposed to be power, it could be power enough to change the future. Will we learn what we need to know in time, though?

I think it's impossible to know anyone that well. I can't see anyone ever getting close enough to me that our "souls" are connected, at least. I think it's the same for everyone.

As for that question, we really won't know until time runs out, I'm afraid. As far as I know, no one's done anything to change the time on the countdown so far.

I think I'd rather know how long we had left, at least, instead of guessing at some nebulous deadline.

Does having your souls connected mean you have to know everything about someone, though? It just means you're connected, for better or for worse, whatever that connection means.

Well, we have some kind of deadline even if it may not be the ultimate deadline.

Maybe not, but I'd still say it's impossible to understand someone enough to make that connection mean something. That's what it would mean to be a "soulmate," as far as I'm concerned. Everything else is just coincidental.

Any guesses as to what the deadline's for? Beyond your more generalized poll options, of course.

Have you ever fallen in love?

My best guess is that something has to be reset or something has to stabilize. It may not be happening to every person on Retrospec, but there are people dreaming of lives within Recolle that don't match up with their current lives. That has to come to some sort of head.

I've dated before, yes.

It's probably some sort of false flag...Like a glitch or mistake. Those dreams, that is. Maybe we'll be lucky for once and the countdown is to stability.

[haha]

You don't fall in love with everyone you date.

Even when there's a glitch, it doesn't often mean nothing. Do you really want those dreams to mean nothing, Jasmine? Is that how you feel?

[ no accounting for luck ]

No, I guess you don't.

In those dreams, some people seem truly miserable. I just wonder if the cost is worth the reward for everyone.

[Maybe it's better, for example, for Clover to have a real family, to not feel like she has to pretend to be like other people she just happened to be raised around.]

[ If some people weren't just so PRIDEFUL, maybe it wouldn't be so MISERABLE. If some people weren't so emotionally CONSTIPATED, maybe that family wouldn't be so broken is what Clover types out before she deletes it. ]

People wouldn't be miserable if they didn't care. Did you think about that?

[If only she knew her well enough still to get an inkling for what she might be thinking.]

It's a nice though, and I admit I've considered it before.

But I think, just as well, there are people who would choose differently

because they wanted to prevent someone else's suffering.

[ Clover wouldn't be so torn and anguished if she didn't know better, but even so— ]

Have you ever stopped to think that people should be informed so they could make their own choice?

You should allow them to have that kind of agency.

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