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[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb

Hello you've reached Eleanor Lamb's voicemail. I'd explain what's next but I can't imagine you don't know what to do at the beep.

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[standalonehuman]

I believe so, too. Or I want to believe so. This whole thing is testing that belief.

No, I do believe it.

[notyourutopian]

It's alright to waver.
Especially now.

Our lives are insane.
No one could stay positive forever when faced with some of the things we've dealt with.
I know I certainly haven't.

Especially recently.

[standalonehuman]

I didn’t ask, too wrapped up in this, and

Hikari.

Are you all right? How were you doing last month?

[What did Retrospec take away from you, too?]

[notyourutopian]

I can imagine.
And it's fine.

I was...spared the strange other life thing everyone seemed to go.
Which I suppose is fortunate.

Yukiko forgot about Retrospec though.

[standalonehuman]

Fuck, I'm sorry.

You don't have to downplay that. It's the worst feeling.

If you're not okay, let yourself be not okay.

[notyourutopian]

I mean
When we aren't going through things like...this...

She's fine?
As long as I don't talk about retrospec, it's almost like everything is normal.

[standalonehuman]

Does it still feel like a loss, though? Or are you more relieved that she's out of this? Maybe she's safer?

[notyourutopian]

It worries me because she's not out of this.
No one is.
Just because they don't remember doesn't somehow mean they aren't impacted by things.

[standalonehuman]

You're right.
Out of the danger of losing themselves, but still in danger from the city changing.

And whatever this is we're facing now.

[notyourutopian]

Exactly.

And I can't protect her from any of that.

[standalonehuman]

Do you love her?

[notyourutopian]

Yes, of course.

Why?

[standalonehuman]

I just wanted to ask.

Talking about the people who are missing this month, it seems to be helping keep them here. When I started talking about Koutarou, I could find where he was in the city.

[notyourutopian]

...How would that even work?

Though I suppose it makes as much sense as anything.

[standalonehuman]

This place seems to be driven by our memories more than anywhere else we've been. Whatever has happened to the city, reality is a lot more subjective here than objective.

It's insane, but it's like the other Togusa understands it better than I do.

[notyourutopian]

I hadn't really given it much thought.
I suppose I've been keeping my head down a lot lately.

It's all alien to the other Eleanor, but I mean

She's from the 60s

[standalonehuman]

Wait, seriously?

What was a gun like that doing in the 1960's?? I have nothing.

[notyourutopian]

Togusa.

What were people with superpowers doing on the bottom of the ocean in the 1960s?

Logic will just make it worse.

backdated 11/4, action

[windeity]

[He's not sure what they'll actually find in the tunnels, but that doesn't stop him from meeting with Eleanor on Sunday to explore anyway. Everything he could possibly need is in his sylladex and as he lingers near the subway entrance he realizes he's way too early. Oh well. It gives him time to get a better look at the entrance.

That...is probably how Eleanor finds him by the time she arrives, actually. Floating up in the air, checking the mouth of the tunnel and minding his own business. Hello, El.]

[notyourutopian]

[Eleanor was almost used to flying people, but there was still a hitch in her step as she came into view and saw him just hovering above the ground like that. Well, right. Okay.]

Hey John.

[She said with a fond smile as she peered up at him.]

How's the weather up there?

[windeity]

[Give him a moment as he flips upside down to look at her, a wide grin on his face upon spotting here.]

As mysterious as ever. [He'll float down to the ground not long after.] I was hoping to maybe get some hints on what we'd be working with here, but no such luck. Ready to head in?