quatre + voice

[tearmeanewone]

[Backdated to Event End...]

[Voice]

I think that was, maybe, the most haphazard experiment I've been here during. I can't even make a speculation at what the purpose of it was aside from confuse us all.

But I suppose I did meet quite a few people, so perhaps inadvertently its purpose was to remind me of that time when I thought life was much simpler. [That time when she thought no one would ever hurt her, and everything in life was new and beautiful.] And I suppose it gave me my hair back. It's as long as it was before I cut it, now. It's nice, I suppose, but does anyone here give haircuts...?


[Private to Gai - Columbia-Sponsored Unhackable]

How are you feeling? I only grazed you with the lamp, didn't I...? [UNSURE TONE IS UNSURE...]

Comments

[voice]

[tearmeanewone]

Creatures? That sounds much more troubling than what we just experienced--imagine trying to learn how to walk all over again. Though I'm not sure how excited I would be to see strange predictions in my journal coming true...

[voice]

[paladinlost]

The functional wings were nice after I learned how to use them, at least, and many others also had the opportunity to fly. But a friend of mine had a broken foot, a rare illness and a bone disease foretold. The results were not pretty.

[voice]

[tearmeanewone]

Oh! Yes, I did enjoy flying when we all had larger wings. That experiment didn't seem all that bad. But a bone disease...

[Yes, that does sound not pretty.]

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Luckily, even the results of the predictions were caused by the experiment. Every illness caught during that week disappeared the moment it was over. That's one advantage of the more... whimsical Shifts.

[voice]

[tearmeanewone]

That's one good thing about most of these experiments and shifts though--at some point, it comes to an end, right?

There haven't been any shifts or experiments that have lasted longer than a few days, have there?

[voice]

[paladinlost]

None that I know of, unless you count the death penalties. Some of the people taken and experimented on by the Malnosso are kept for weeks or even months, but that's far from the norm, and the side effects tend to fade away much more quickly.

[voice]

[tearmeanewone]

Months...? [God, the idea of being experimented on for months at a time, again, sends a crawling sensation up her arms until she has to physically shake it off.]

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Yes, though those cases are extremely rare. But even those kept only for a few days can be impossible to recognize upon their return.

[That, he's seen too often.]

[voice]

[tearmeanewone]

I haven't seen that, not yet. [But from the sound of her voice, she doesn't want to see that.] Though someone I know was recently brought back to their world, and then returned here after only a few hours. Is that common?

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Some people do return home and come back extremely quickly, but that often take days rather than hours. You were extremely lucky to see them again so soon.

[voice]

[tearmeanewone]

Yes, I knew that much. I knew I was lucky to see him again, period.

[voice]

[paladinlost]

And he was quite lucky to have someone who was so glad to see him back. I hope he was not too disoriented upon his return?

[voice]

[tearmeanewone]

[Elizabeth really would like to tell this person the truth, put some of her own confusion and concern on someone else for just a little bit, but Gai had his image and it was a personal story. A complicated story.]

He was, but I suppose anyone would be, right?

[voice]

[paladinlost]

Almost certainly. From what I've heard from friends and family members that left and returned, we forget about Luceti the moment we leave. Suddenly reobtaining all those memories would be more than slightly confusing to most people.