retrospec | Maybe the world is fine...

Maybe the world is fine...

Eleanor Lamb shared a photo.
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So I've been thinking about this a lot, and I don't think blue and green are actually gone. I mean, we can't see them anymore, but I'm wondering if it's more like colorblindness than them actually changing the whole world.
Because, think about it. If blue were actually gone, they sky wouldn't be gray. The sky would be red. That's how light and our atmosphere work. We see it as blue because of refracted red light. I remember reading about it forever ago in a science textbook.
And if green were gone, we'd already be seeing the smaller plants starting to die, and they aren't, right? So they clearly still are...photosynthesizing. So. I'm not sure the world changed. I think this time it was us. And I can't decide if that's better or worse.

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Sorry, what's happened to my friends has been on my mind lately. But your explanation makes me feel a little better. It would mean, if right, that you were fine. That we all just weren't seeing things right for now.

And you know me with my stubbornness. I accept answers I like more. They're still blue in that case. I just can't see it, but I can imagine it.

Well we're fine.
I mean, aside from all the obvious ways we aren't.
Haha.

I suppose it's easier to think about it that way.
Though I almost prefer them tampering with the world over me.

We will be fine. Beware. He's sending out surveys every once in a while, it seems. Mocking us by asking what we want back to normal. Most of us haven't gotten one yet.

Why do you prefer it that way?

...Surveys?

I don't think I've gotten one of those.

Because if they can tamper with us, they can just snap their fingers and make us forget everything.

[...]

I don't want to forget you. I think I understand the fear. One is more global, but the other hints that they could take this away from us.

And even if we hate the hallucinations, the alternative has become much much worse.

They made Rose forget.
I don't think we get a choice.

It would be really weird to suddenly be normal.
Although I guess I wouldn't care if it happened.

[She curled up a little with an arm around her legs and shuddered, closing her eyes. It took a minute to reply. There were a couple typos involved that she ignored when she finally typed it out hastily.]

Stop talking like that. I don't car if I have no choiice. I'm not lettin them take anymore away from me. Already took too much.

Sorry.
Guess I can be a little fatalist sometimes.

If we can stop them, we will.

It's not your fault, Eleanor. I'm not really mad at you. I just... don't want to lose you, ok? I don't like thinking like that right now.

It's selfish, and I know it.

Well relax, I'm not going anywhere.

[That was what she needed to hear right then. Chloe visibly relaxed, even if Eleanor couldn't see it. She reached up and raked her fingers through her hair. Fuck, she was going insane these days, and bottling things up wasn't helping, but at the same time there never seemed to be a 'good time' to do something she wanted to do, did there?]

Thank you. You know... maybe I'm going to call you some day, when absolutely nothing is going wrong, so that we can have a nice conversation, a completely boring one about normal things.

[And cause crises of entirely different varieties.]

Normal sounds nice.
If a little strange anymore.

Oh the sheer, strange and surreal novelty. A day with completely boring problems. You're a few minutes late to work because of a traffic jam. Homework is due. You have to cleanup around the apartment.

How long has it been since we could legitimately say those things weren't almost exotic for us?

Hey, I just got through finals.
My homework is never due again.

Not entirely true, and we both know it. You are going to college after all. But, you can enjoy the freedom for a few months at least, n'est-ce pas?

Actually my internship starts in two weeks.
But college homework isn't the same as high school homework anyway.
It's more...learning the stuff you want to learn, you know?

You do have a point, yes. But where will you be interning? Now you have me curious, so I can come bring you coffee at your work.

A tech company in the city. Fiji.
The woman who runs it used to be on Retrospec but she stopped answering.
But my internship had been arranged before then so..

I see. It's good that it's already arranged, but I imagine it might be a little awkward at times. Still, let us hope that it is good experience and pay. I'm not surprised you are doing it already, though. You don't sit still well.

She's still really nice?
So it should be fine long as I don't bring up retrospec or anything.

I wouldn't know what to do with a whole summer off, really.

So is Mikoto, so I'm not surprised. I think we stay who we are without the app, which says something for who we really are.

Oh, you'd probably just get into more trouble with bad influences like me, hunting for Retrospec's secrets or the like. Which we can still do in our free time.

It's still so odd they forget the things they learned here.

I'm not sure you really count as a bad influence, Chloe.

And remember them if they re-appear on the app, and forget after again. It's harder to believe than even people like the citizens of the city thinking it's all normal.

Oh, I'm a corrupting influence of sorts. Just not a horrible one. I like to think I'm corrupting you towards good things.

Has that happened?

Chloe that's not how corruption works at all

A girl named Alice. I don't recall her being on the app currently, but she has been on and off in the past.

Fine, fine. Then I am a positive influence?

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