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[maidofmistakes]

Does anyone know why people lose their memories when they lose their network access?

Uh. Kara's forgotten everything. I was out pouring snow on the fires, and then... yeah. Our dog's gone, too, but I guess it's because she got him from Retrospec. Most of my friends forgot, too. It feels pretty lonely around now, but... anyway, just letting you guys know.

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[thesettingsun]

I don't know why, but I'm sorry. Do you want me to come over later?

[maidofmistakes]

Are you sure that's okay? I mean, you have your own life and everything, and the fire... I think I can sneak out to keep dousing them, if you want.

[thesettingsun]

You could visit the National Library. No one can complain about you visiting a library, right?

Except you won't be able to read anything, but at least there's a nice garden.

[maidofmistakes]

Sure. I can be over pretty fast.

[thesettingsun]

I'll wait at the entrance. Don't mind the robot if you see him, Isamu's keeping himself busy with work.

[maidofmistakes]

You have a wh

[action]

[Lina is indeed pretty fast. In fact, she zooms right over like a speeding car running down the street. She stumbles to a halt and looks around.]

Mr. Tsushima?

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[thesettingsun]

[No robot in sight! (Probably pacing around the hospital parking lot again.) It's just Shuji outside the library.]

You know I said you don't have to call me that, right?

[beastenderblood]

tbh i think its to isolate us

[maidofmistakes]

You mean, make sure we can only rely on each other, because we can't even tell civilians or they won't believe us and then they'll forget?

[beastenderblood]

yeah! and if we aren't doing a good enough job- poof all gone

cheery stuff

[maidofmistakes]

That sounds a little paranoid, which is really not helping.

[beastenderblood]

oh was i. supposed to do the comfort person thing

[maidofmistakes]

I mean, I don't blame you! A lot of people are really anti-Retrospec, I guess of course you'd assume everyone was. Wait, that sounded terrible. Sorry. I just... I don't know how to fix it, because I can't.

[standalonehuman]

I'm very sorry. I got an explanation out of Maurice when I met him. I don't know if it'll help, but it's the best I've got.

There's a level of sync that Retrospec needs to keep between our soul and, for lack of a better term, the soul of the person we're remembering. And if people fall out of sync, they have to let the other soul go.

[maidofmistakes]

Then why can't they believe us when we tell them the truth?

[standalonehuman]

Why they literally can't see Retrospec anymore is the hard part, yeah. If you believe the layer diagram, it's because they fell back to the first layer, before Awakening.

I'm at the point that I have to believe it's protecting them. Remembering what they had, but not being able to touch it again has got to hurt, too.

[maidofmistakes]

But so is turning every relationship anyone on here has into a bunch of lies! It distances people. It's messing us all up, Retrospec users and civilians.

[standalonehuman]

I'm sorry. God, it sounds like I'm defending them. It's worse, it's terrible. I'm in the damn hospital now and my best friend doesn't know why I got hurt.

The best I can do is remember the other reasons I'm friends with him, and try to keep the lies as little as possible. He's still going to be here when all this is over and we get our lives back.

[maidofmistakes]

You think things will go back to how they were before, or that we'll be able to save the worlds and become the other us and go back to their lives?

UN:Al

[flametheif40]

I honestly don't know...I'm so sorry, it's terrible

I'm kinda on the same boat, I moved here and it took me a while to actually talk to people.

and since we all go through crazy things together, it felt easier to talk to people on the app.

[Al stared at his text for a while, wondering if he should even bother sending it at all]

[maidofmistakes]

Yeah, me too. Sorry. It's hard enough making friends, right?

[flametheif40]

Yeah, then it sucks when the people you DO know drop cause you don't know how to talk to them again.

So where did you come from?

[maidofmistakes]

Here, but life was getting... kind of complicated. And you're always scared of rumours and stuff, you know? At least I am.

[flametheif40]

complicated? Because of app stuff, or life stuff? Either or, I can understand.

I'm from Cali myself, I ran away and police were involved at one point to drag me into an orphanage.

So rumours kinda got around, which I used to like because I could sound all tough and what not and make people leave me alone.

[maidofmistakes]

They even still have orphanages? That's terrible.