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As long as the changes were being made to our memories, it was plausible to argue that this was some sort of hypnosis, something done by Retrospec to our brains. However:

1) The experiment to disconnect from electronics that may be affected by Retrospec returned no results. We still felt the effects while disconnected.

2) This "shrinking" and the holes in reality cannot be explained by hypnosis. They are very real.

At what point do we begin to question the fabric of reality itself?

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I would argue that however we experience reality IS reality. How else would we know the difference?
I would have assumed that the alterations were limited to perception until they made us tiny.

Let's keep on that idea, though. Even the physical alterations people have been experiencing, what if that's just a change in perception? Eye color, hair color, and in some cases, injuries? When perception is changed, you can see what wasn't there before.

I've considered that. After all, our knowledge of the past is completely based out of memory. You and I could have not existed at all before the beginning of this conversation and our memories implanted, and we would never know.

This goes beyond perception. Cracks in reality, tremendous shifts in size...
What else can we call it but an alteration of reality?

Well, it gets worse, when you think about the cracks. What if they've been there the entire time? Whatever Retrospec is up to was leading to some side effects, like their changes in reality can't quite cover everything?

But the cracks are small now, so small we wouldn't have been able to see them unless we were that size. So what if they're still there, we just can't see them anymore now?

Small, yes, but not microscopic. It's perhaps that they were indeed simply too small to notice beforehand, but now that we know they exist...

Something is deeply wrong. That much is clear.

We might try to look for them again.

In the meantime, I'm on to something a little more concrete. I've been trying to gather photographs, the things people were sent from the elusive Mr. Halloway. If you can find any that happened to catch a reflective surface? Anything that might give us an extra angle? I somehow doubt it, but Retrospec might have gotten sloppy on this one.

I would be happy to try. Are you currently gathering them yourself?

I am some, but if you can find anyone who would be more comfortable sharing them with you, that would be great.

I can get tech to let us use their software for digital enhancement, see what we turn up?

Understood.
I'll get on that.

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