001. text // i'm wide awake the more i sleep

[manufactured]

I'll preface this now with the notion that I don't expect anyone to respond with the content of their memories, should this be relevant to them. It's more a question being shouted into the void, because I don't care to keep it in my head any longer. Make of it what you will; treat it as a pure hypothetical if it suits you, it isn't as though I'll know the difference.

But has anyone had the suspicion that they may have been on the wrong side of whatever conflict may have been occurring in these memories of theirs? Or if not something so drastic, perhaps it's just that the person you seem to have been back then was deserving of, at the very least, a solid shake and a slap across the face.

Either way, people like to assert here that whomever you are now isn't the same as the person you're remembering, and I wholeheartedly agree with that notion. However, the question likewise comes up from time to time of whether or not the patterns we recall are what we're destined to fall into again.

That possibility becomes decidedly more difficult to disregard when the memories you receive are of someone that you have neither the interest nor the desire to become.

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[manufactured]

That's probably the politest way to word it.

Have these visions, or whatever we're calling them, been troubling you, then?

[matchbreaker]

[ Yes, extremely so.

... She shouldn't discuss the why of it in public but hey, ]

Mmm, it's hard to think of who it wouldn't. When it was all oddities like bat tornados it was more interesting, but now I'm less certain.

[manufactured]

[...He's literally just thrown "I am fairly sure that I was not the hero of whatever narrative my previous world is following" out there, he understands.]

I understand if you don't care to discuss it, but should you ever want to, we can at some point or another.

[matchbreaker]

We should, if you want to have our talks used up on Retrospec stuff.

... Actually, have you played the bingo game at all? I'd assume not, but.

[manufactured]

Not directly, though several people have asked me for assistance with theirs, and I suppose I've filled some of mine on the most technical of levels. Why do you ask?

[matchbreaker]

Because I've a strange one that I couldn't think of any but you to help me with. Well, that and the idea of you fulfilling them is a little comical.

[manufactured]

...As long as this doesn't end in a request for me to fight you in some way, because I've received two of those today and I'm still not entirely certain how I should feel about that.

[matchbreaker]

... Wow, how uncivilized are those people? No, I supposedly still need a spar, but this one's a lot easier than that. It's an invitation to a tea party.

[manufactured]

[An invitation to a- ...well, okay, then.]

I suppose I don't see why not. Is this just going to be at yours, then...?

[matchbreaker]

Nope! I'll pick you up!

... And it needs to be later at night.

[manufactured]

That's fine by me.

[...And...understandable? I mean, her eyes and everything - maybe this is going to be outdoors for some godforsaken reason.]

[matchbreaker]

Excellent! Are you free tonight?

[manufactured]

...Tomorrow night would likely be more convenient.

[Given backdating and just...punching all the people, apparently.]

[matchbreaker]

Oh, of course. I didn't mean to assume you would be free willy nilly. Honestly, it might take longer to prepare anyway.

[manufactured]

It wasn't taken that way.

Either way, I'll be looking forward to it, Elda.

[matchbreaker]

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