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Time. A weird kind of concept, isn't it? I've been thinking about it a lot lately…this whole "time" thing, the way the map's been laid out, and how this project came into fruition.

I've been able to get a read on some stuff, and I've been transcribing notes from the company. Your app should have some new upgrades now thanks to a handful of factors none of which were my own ideas. I did the legwork, but the groundwork was provided. Thanks, you know who you are.

We're rerouting for higher security, anonymity and the chance to overlap. Which means…what…?

Here's a question for you. Where have you wanted to go more than anywhere in the worlds? A time, a place, anything like that. There's a theory about alternate timelines I might be looking into based on company research. What've we got to lose at this rate?

Strip the defenses in the past, unveil the man behind the curtain in the present, secure the future. Someone told me this kind of thing was a lot of power to trust on you guys…but isn't that all we can do now? Trust each other and test the waters.

No missions this month. I checked out everything in Respatrum and Bosuma and it seems that the people there are more self-sufficient than I anticipated which was nice. The subway's still up and running though.

Coordinates will be incoming in a few days. I'm testing them out myself to make sure they're stabilized.

Stay sharp.

Zee Carlisle
Hiring Manager
Retr

spec Incorporated

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Sounds like Zee wants us to be responsible for not fucking with our own pasts and just doing what it takes to bring down Vanderweele. He trusts the people still here. Probably more than any of us even know.

I wonder if it is really "trust" and not more of "we are all he's has left to work with." I mean, the network use to have so many people, and now... it's just a handful.

Yeah, don't remind me. It's probably a little of both, but at some point he's got to stop making a distinction between them. Too much at stake to hold back a last-ditch effort like this.

I can't help but wonder what is going to happen once we defeat Vanderwheel. Will everyone who use to be on the app come back on the app? Will they remember? If we're the only ones who remember our other lives/alternate time lines... then what is the point?

I'd pay money for that answer. We just have to keep going forward on faith. Faith that whatever's waiting for us when we're done and we don't have to fight anymore is going to be worth it.

Faith? You have that much confidence that it will work out for the better?

Yeah. If I don't have that faith, blind (half-blind, I guess) or not, I'm never gonna be able to keep moving forward. I'm done with nihilism.

[Derek had no idea Anna was this... philosophical... now what? He is not use to this... nicer Anna.]

You're quite... optimistic.

I'm not nearly so much.

Spent the better part of ten years being pessimistic. Like I said, I'm done with it. I have a purpose now. And it's to keep all your asses safe, and if that means you can't see things being worth it, then I'll drag the future into the light.

["...ten years being pessimistic... I'm done with it..." Really? Derek stares at his phone. Anna could not possibly be this different to people she doesn't dislike. Around him she's negative and way more violent. Derek is floored by just how much more chill she is when she talking to someone other than him. Or at least doesn't know it's him.]

The light huh? You're even going to keep the asses safe of people you may not like?

Yeah? It's not on me to pick and choose who gets to live. That would literally make me as bad as Vanderweele. You could be the biggest, dumbest, most tone-deaf asshole on the app and you're just as worth saving as anyone else.

[He's touched Anna, really.]

Is there really such a person who is the "biggest, dumbest, most tone-deaf asshole on the app"? I find everyone fairly pleasant.

[yeah, that last part was a total lie.]

Ever run into Derek?

[Ah, so he was talking about him. Well, let see how far he can go with this.]

The CSI guy? He's pleasant enough. And he's hardly tone-deaf.

Yeah? Maybe you're just lucky. Any time I try to talk to him it feels like I'm watching him fail the Turing test. For a dude who claims to be smart enough to work in criminal investigation, he can't read a room or follow the thread of a conversation for shit.

Perhaps I was lucky. That being said... Book smart and street smart to two totally different skills.

Talking to people isn't street smarts, dude. That's surviving as an adult in the real world.

Maybe he's like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory? Academically smart, somewhat socially stunted?

[The things he types to keep Anna from finding out she is actually talking to him!]

Christ, maybe I should give you my spare sword if you're gonna keep whiteknighting him like this.

[OK, time to play a bit dumb.]

What use would I have with a sword?

It's what knights use. Es war ein Witz.

[Hello google translate.... "It was a joke." Of course it was...]

Ah, I see.

Is there something wrong with "white knighting" him. Not that I think i'm doing that. I'm just pointing out that maybe your narrative of him is missing a few pieces.

What skin do you have in his game, dude? Not everyone's gonna get along.

Well, I have a pretty pale complexion actually.

And sure not everyone is going to get along, but it doesn't me we all can't try! And sometimes that can be done with thinking about a person with a new perspective! :)

Oh my god, I'm gonna fuckin' yartz.

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