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Yes.
However, we had a second set of memories that were from the place we went to.
So I remembered both at the same time, so it was difficult at times to figure out which set of memories were the real ones and which were fake.

that... sounds really confusing
did you recognize where you guys were? did you have those memories right away?
when we were gone we didn't have our original memories at all until about the end
and the last group mostly had theirs and only theirs the whole time

It's hard to explain.
When we initially got there, we started out with our normal memories and then the most "recent" fake memories.
More and more of the fake memories came back to us as we spent time there.
Like I did not know the building we were in, but after I looked outside, I suddenly knew all about it.

almost like something overriding you guys
adding the knowledge as you needed it but not replacing what you already had
that's... insane
what did the other memories tell you?

We were not good people in that world.
We were human traffickers, taking people who visited the brothel.
I don't even know what they were all used for. Experiments and who knows what else.

holy shit
sorry i just mean thats a huge shift from who you all are
does that mean you had to actually act on those memories...?

Thankfully we did not have to do anything with that.
But we constantly had to face the consequences of what we did.
Seeing people it affected.

[ yikes. ]

that must've been hard
not really doing these things but having the memories you had
what were you trying to do if not that? were they things you could try to fix?

We woke up, and what we initially remembered was getting killed by someone.
We did not remember who or why.
We had to figure out each person who killed us to settle a karmic debt.

i see...
did you guys at least remember the how to have some sort of clue?
how do you even start solving that?

We had to investigate.
We went around and talked to people, and as we did memories came back to us that revealed more.
At some point we were attacked by a rat who wanted revenge against us.

[ no different than what they were doing last year, then. but: ]

a... rat?
thorns, what?

Yes.
The rat kidnapped Hak and I, which lead to a confrontation.
His lover was sick and dying, apparently due to what we were doing.

i see.

[ he really has to pause for a second to kind of go "the fuck." ]

um. how did the confrontation turn out? were you guys separated for long?

We all joined forces against the rat and defeated him.
But then we were separated again immediately after.

okay. makes sense. was the rat one of the people who killed one of you then, or somebody else who just got in the way?
were you separated from hak too that time?

Hak went with Yuma.
I ran after Medea, but I was unable to catch up to her, so we were separated.
The rat didn't kill us.
Actually
Can we meet in person?

[ well he reads all of that and decides the rest of his questions can wait a second. ]

yeah of course
where are you? i can come to you

Outside of the simulation room.

ok be right there

[ which is about as good as it gets, so he shoves his compact into his pocket and heads back into the maze...

it's easy enough to get to the simulation room though and he pulls up to a stop next to him. ]

... thinking about going in, or just taking a break?

I don't remember what I usually set it as when I go in.

[ he stares at the door for another second before shaking his head. ]

I didn't want to discuss too much over text.

[ hm. well this is concerning. ]

I get it. I would've come to see you from the beginning, but wasn't sure if you wanted some space or not.

[ he tilts his head to stare at the door, too. ]

I can set it for something myself and we can talk in there if you want. I don't know how out in the open you wanna be right now.

[ he nods his head, and will go inside then. ]

[ he will set the room up and follow, allowing for the the samegawa floodplain to manifest into a warm, calm day. ]

I set the timer for thirty minutes, but it can go longer if we want it to.

That's fine.

[ they'll see if they need the time. ]

... The people who killed us were all people who were important to us, I think. In our actual lives. For good reason, since we were terrible.

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