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Jim Halloway
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What a terrible fate to impose upon a book. What's more irritating is that since everyday items will have been affected, we're going to be constantly reminded of dear Jim laughing at us from his office.

My scarves, Rosalind. Some of them did not survive this onslaught, I'm sure of it.

[priorities]

Well, some good has come of these changes, at least. Are you too in mourning to listen about the book I received?

Was it sent to you from Retrospec? By all means, tell me this story of your book. I can mourn my losses later, since you certainly don't seem to care about them.

[He's teasing.]

I wrote it.

The published date is 1893.

What?

[Okay, serious shift in conversation now.]

You mean... the /other/ you wrote it. What's the title?

The Principles of Quantum Mechanics. Nothing in it is particularly shocking; the initial few chapters are indeed the precisely what the title has promised.

But the later half of the book is almost completely blank. There are sentences here and there, but it's mostly blank page after blank page. There ought to be something there, there are chapter titles (although some of them are missing words), but.

It would be very much unlike you to write a book only half-finished.

[The idea is laughable, to anyone who knows Rosalind well enough.]

So, for what reason, then? It's as if they want to share with you some slice of who you were, but unwilling to reveal the entirety of the truth.

Or that I'd come up with a theory they don't yet want me to know. Except there are far better ways to conceal that: namely, by not giving me the book in the first place.

What, then? They merely hope to tease this information? Dangling the figurative carrot?

Can you at all make out the chapter titles?

Some of them. Not all. And the ones I can make out don't offer many clues. "The Founding of [Blank]", "The [Blank] Field, Part I", so on and so forth. I'll bring it to the university on Monday, you can see for yourself.

It's very strange to read. The language and words are my own, but . . . older. More antiquated. And I-- she-- doesn't introduce herself as Doctor Lutece, but Madam.

You did say it was published in 1893. The manner of speech then is a bit different than it is now.

[For however much that counts for. He doubts it was even "their" 1893 at this rate.]

Same /name/, even. Rosalind, that is exceedingly strange.

It's not a particularly common name, either. Lutece goes back years and years, but Rosalind . . . I suppose it was more common back then than it is now, though.

I don't know if it's more comforting or worrying we seem to have the same name. It feels more intimate,
certainly.

[There's a pause now, though. He hadn't thought of it until now, but-- What was his name, in his own memories? He couldn't remember. Was it still Ardyn Izunia? That wouldn't make much sense, would it?]

It lends heavily to the fact that this was indeed a /you/ of a different time, of a different world.

Especially if it were the latter... What would the chances be? It would be too odd to be mere coincidence. Unless we shift our theorizing from "past lives" to "alternate realities".

Frankly, that would make more sense. The theory of parallel universes is still very much in the tentative stages, but it's not something entirely out of fantasy. But what it would mean in terms of us . . .

Well. Let's think it through. Let's assume for a moment that this is, yes, a me from another time and world-- another universe. And that each of us is from a different universe (yours being one where someone can access that kind of healing/empathetic magic, because that's the standards of normalcy there).

And then . . . what? We were all born in this universe, and those select few of us who happen to reside in this city remember our other universe's selves? But why? Why this city, and why us? What makes us different from the other residents of this city? Furthermore: if the theory of parallel universes is true, why are we only remembering one universe? Why not all of them?

Edited 2017-06-02 18:16 (UTC)

We were born, or were we reborn? If the latter, then it's a hybrid of the two theories. After all, then the past Ardyn Izunia and the past Rosalind Lutece exist no longer. Yet we still are, in a sense, them.

[Though that idea is met with some hesitation. Should they really give their old memories that much weight?]

If not, then... well. Why indeed? There must be some commonality between the lot of us, but the pool is too large to know for sure. But I think it's obvious that Recolle is no longer the city that we thought it was. Too many mysteries are being laid at our feet. There's a reason why all of us were either born here, or eventually gravitated in Recolle's direction over the years.

It's possible the city had something to do with our other lives. And those past selves might yet exist. There's nothing to say they're not living out their lives right now, and we're only getting flashbacks of things in their past.

I suppose for now, all we can do is wait and observe more. We haven't enough data to come up with a proper hypothesis; just speculation.

Sitting and waiting, your favorite pastime.

Tell me your theories on this book you mentioned. Do you think you had indulged yourself in a bit of weird science, enough to garner censorship from Retrospec?

I can't imagine what else it would be, frankly. I can speculate on which of my theories became reality, but that's all it would be: speculation.

[She pauses for a few seconds, then:]

At the very least, we had the same ego. I believe she named something after herself; there's multiple references to "The Lutece" something or other.

So a discovery worth the Lutece name. Well, it's as you said; all speculation, and little more to be done than wait. I take it you'll be checking the blank pages everyday, just in case something mysterious fills itself in?

Oh, yes. If nothing else, this has spurred me on to work on my own theories even more; perhaps a breakthrough in one of them will lead to these pages refilling themselves.

Edited 2017-06-04 21:04 (UTC)

And the chapters that /are/ filled in, do they give you an idea of what theories to pursue?

Not yet. They're more an introduction to the subject than anything. It's mostly the things I teach to the undergraduate students.

Well, if something changes, I trust you to let me know.

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