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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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[notyourutopian]

Yes.

But it's...

I remember her name. Calling her...Aunt Gracie. I think I was...living with her.

I mean, that's ridiculous. I don't have an Aunt Grace, and I've never lived with anyone but my parents.

I have a dog named Grace...

[true_noir]

It is extremely strange, yes. The tone that I used for Altena in mine was almost as if I were staying with her as well, but that is not my mother's name, and she adopted me far too young to know my birth parents.

It is almost like looking through a lens at someone else's life, wearing your face, is it not?

[notyourutopian]

That's actually a really good way to put it.
A really miserably weird way.
But good.

[true_noir]

The only possible thing it feels like is what I have been told a past life experience is like. The problem is that it feels 'modern,' or recent. The technology, the world, they are all from the era we live in. So, it isn't really like that.

Hence the 'watching someone else's life.

[She almost made a Neutrino Leap reference, but decided against it. Nobody should ever admit to having watched that old show.]

[notyourutopian]

I don't believe in that stuff either way.

I don't know.

I don't care if these memories feel real. They can't be.

[true_noir]

Nor do I, really, but I have seen a few psychic specials when bored. Though, I should hope you are the one that is right. That somehow someone is feeding us these thoughts and they are not real.

It would be better, I think.

[notyourutopian]

What's the alternative, really?
Hundreds of people living strange double lives they've forgotten about?

That wouldn't even make a good low-budget sci-fi movie.

[true_noir]

There is no clear alternative. That much is relatively certain. Any possibility that I think we could find would not really suit the situation right. There is always a hole somehow.

But I apologize. We just seem to end up walking in circles with me too often, do we not?

[notyourutopian]

I wish I could make sense of any of it.

I just hate it when I don't understand something.
Even if it's something ridiculous.

I feel stupid if I can't puzzle it out.

[There was a reason Eleanor started taking things apart when she was three, basically. And it never went away.

[true_noir]

You aren't stupid. We haven't been given enough to learn what is going on right in front of us. Without enough pieces for the puzzle, we can't hope to put it all together.

Get ready for when more of the pieces are there.

[notyourutopian]

I suppose.
I can't say I can convince myself of that.
I'm usually rather good at puzzles.

But you're probably right.

[true_noir]

Yes, though even a master cannot finish a thing if they do not have all the pieces. Still, I can understand how the frustration settles in the mind and won't go away.

3/24

[gnasher]

[blame Arlene for this one]

Just wanted to say thank you for not dying. I love you.

[notyourutopian]

Love confessions from strangers.

I really have gone completely mad, haven't I.

[gnasher]

[oh er]

misfire, don't worry about it. you alright?

[such gloom... it's not even finals week]

[notyourutopian]

Huh. I guess that's probably better.

Uh. Yes, I'm fine, sorry.

You just caught me off guard.

[gnasher]

it's alright.

it's my bad, not yours. do you get a lot of love confessions...?

[gnasher]

sorry, that's a weird question to ask a stranger, too. you just seemed weirdly resigned.

[notyourutopian]

Ah. No.

That was kind of the point.

The world has gone crazy and then I get one.

Which meant it was just another part of the going crazy.

Sort of thing.

It made sense in my head.

[notyourutopian]

You think we'll ever have all the pieces?

[true_noir]

I think we will have to have enough eventually to at least know what the picture is supposed to be. Too much keeps dropping into our laps. We cannot hope but to eventually learn something of value.

[notyourutopian]

Yeah but none of it is connected to anything else.
What I remember is utterly different from what you remember.
Or what Yukiko remembers.
It's like...

We're all seeing snapshots of different movies and trying to make a plot out of it.

[true_noir]

This is true, but whether the stories fit, if we can get the Retrospec angle to make more sense with collected information, we can get the blanks we really need filled in, at least those we need as a group. The individual stories may be their own problems.

[notyourutopian]

Maybe.
I have to believe these...visions...are related somehow though.

They can't just be sticking things in our heads for no reason.

[true_noir]

It might not be something obvious, like each of us sees pieces of the same story. There may be something else that they're all tied to, even if I'll be honest and say I don't quite know what that could be just yet. Still, we might not be looking at this the right way yet.