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[oversea]

HELLO

"What do you want?"

GOODBYE

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[oversea]

Even though I was warned about them, I still wasn't expecting any of that.

[aerodynamic]

its weird right?
you hear about it and talk to the people who have done it before, but its still so different when it happens to you

[ the way he's really cut the shorthand text solely because he doesn't want to make this harder to read while thorns is recovering. ]

have you healed?

[oversea]

Elysium brought me to the river immediately.

[ he basically shoved him in there ]

[aerodynamic]

yeah that doesnt surprise me
he was probably insanely worried about you
how do you feel?

[ thorns can decide if yosuke means in terms of being healed or what he's lost. ]

[oversea]

The river worked.
I didn't die. I have all my senses.

[aerodynamic]

im glad it worked
if you had died that wound be counterproductive
and im glad you have your senses
sometimes you might not even know what's missing right away, i think
so i hope whatever it was gets back to you fast
im sure other people will be able to tell though and help if you dont remember

[oversea]

Elysium may just figure it out for me.
I was concerned I'd forget him or something since he had forgotten who I was.

[aerodynamic]

probably
he seems to pay the most attention to you but thats expected
... i AM glad you didnt forget him
even if im sorry he forgot you
the rivers weird because its not even consistent, so we cant tell what might disappear

[oversea]

Yeah.
If I figure out what it is for me, I'll add it to that notice.

[aerodynamic]

that should maybe be the least of your concerns right now dude
but i do appreciate it
the more info we have the more we can try to tackle these things
... do you mind if i ask you a few questions about what happened? you can say no, i totally get it

[oversea]

I don't mind.
We never know what may help.
What do you want to know?

[aerodynamic]

thanks thorns
... did you remember who you were the whole time you were gone?

[oversea]

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.

[aerodynamic]

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

[oversea]

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.

[aerodynamic]

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?

[oversea]

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.

[aerodynamic]

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...?

[oversea]

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.

[aerodynamic]

[ 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?

[oversea]

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.

[aerodynamic]

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

[oversea]

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.

[aerodynamic]

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

a... rat?
thorns, what?

[oversea]

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.