forward-dated to 2/5

[hauntedsavior]

[this is the first time anyone's seen Anna around on the network since the beginning of the month, and the first time she's been back in the city since Saturday. she went on an adventure.]

Maybe stay away from Bosuma for a while.

Anyone know where to get eyepatches? Asking for a friend.

Comments

[spirithacker]

whats wrong with the flowers

[hauntedsavior]

Their pollen made me really pissed off one time. Other than that, not a bad place. I fell asleep in the sunlight on a big flat rock out there one time, back when I thought that was a good idea.

[spirithacker]

pollen makes alot of people mad
its allergies

[hauntedsavior]

Smartasses also make me mad.

[spirithacker]

dont talk 2 kids then

[hauntedsavior]

Been doing a pretty good job of it most of my life. Glad I never was a kid.

[spirithacker]

#doubt

[hauntedsavior]

I sprang fully formed from a pile of dirt and dead leaves in the woods. Prove me wrong.

[spirithacker]

i bet i can find class photos of u

[hauntedsavior]

Viel glück, nerd, I'm not from here and I haven't listed my real last name on here in months.

[spirithacker]

i have the power of the internet
& free time

[hauntedsavior]

Then bring it on. You won't find anything.

[spoken with the confidence of a woman who has not posted pictures of herself in a frilly maid outfit on this very network.]

[spirithacker]

be back in an hr or 2
with incrimnating evidence

[Shinji has not tried to hack Retrospec directly yet and does not want to. Even working legitimately, though, if he goes back far enough he's sure he can find pictures he can tie to other social media he can tie to names. And names lead to families and addresses, which lead to schools, which lead to school pictures.

What I'm asking is: can he find a picture of elementary school Anna.]

[hauntedsavior]

Like I said. Viel glück.

[absolutely. yes. obviously. there's a host of pictures of a much younger Annalise Lehmann from middle and elementary school. she's got blonde hair and, in the middle school pictures, braces that she's being forced to smile through. she hadn't figured out style by then so she's mostly dressed the way her parents wanted her to be dressed, which was "a kid, but also a nerd". being the daughter of historians would do that.]

[he might be interested in one from around fifth grade where she's got a black eye—yes, in a school picture. yes, on picture day. there's the braces pictures, of course, and overall she looks happier back then even if she looks like a dork. there's one from a personal page in a yearbook where she's linking arms with two of her best friends from childhood and they're all smiling like idiots with their eyes screwed shut. lots of fodder here for anyone who wants to embarrass her.]

[spirithacker]

[Roughly two hours later, Shinji returns to post: an elementary school pic, a braces pic, the black eye pic, and the linked arms picture.]

so

[hauntedsavior]

[and it. takes her a second to even recognize the girl in those pictures, and she's going to unpack a whole bunch of this stuff later, she knows, but. right now, she doesn't need to go on a mental journey for Shinji. she's already going through enough.]

How the fuck.

[but it's taking her mind off her eye.]

[spirithacker]

[It's taking her mind off her eye, and therefore Shinji is helping.]

the internet is a big place

[hauntedsavior]

Yeah, apparently.

[she reaches up to brush some hair out of her face on her end of the phone like it's going to make seeing the pictures any easier.]

Quit digging here and I'll let you off the hook for this one.

[spirithacker]

ur the 1 who said i couldnt find anything
uve only got urself 2 blame

i was gonna stop anyway

[hauntedsavior]

Didn't think you'd take me seriously.

Christ, I haven't even thought about Caroline and Amanda in years. They'd lose their minds if they could see me now.

[spirithacker]

most people'd b rly surprised
about alot of stuff retrospec does 2 people
id b surprised about my classmates & im sorta used 2 this now

[hauntedsavior]

How long have you even been on the app? They didn't give it to an eight-year-old, did they?

[spirithacker]

november b4 last
i was 8
sry 2 break it 2 u

[hauntedsavior]

Jesus fucking christ. Well, at least you'll have the best "what I did over summer vacation" story for the next eternity.

[spirithacker]

i cant even use it 4 that bcuz people would think i made it up!!
its the worst!!

[Priorities.]