Maybe the world is fine...

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb shared a photo. 6/6 near Recollé

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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[notyourutopian]

Normal sounds nice.
If a little strange anymore.

[true_noir]

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?

[notyourutopian]

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

[true_noir]

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?

[notyourutopian]

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?

[true_noir]

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.

[notyourutopian]

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..

[true_noir]

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.

[notyourutopian]

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.

[true_noir]

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.

[notyourutopian]

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

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

[true_noir]

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.

[notyourutopian]

Has that happened?

Chloe that's not how corruption works at all

[true_noir]

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?