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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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[burningblossoms]

We could talk about those and not burgers.

How did your date go?

[notyourutopian]

Pretty good.
I mean it was with Kurt so it was a little awkward since, friends suddenly on a date?
But we got Italian.

How was yours?

[burningblossoms]

More or less okay?

We went to the movies and shared popcorn and stuff. Nothing super unusual. Honoka's fun to hang out with and that was more or less what it was.

[notyourutopian]

That sounds pretty cute.

So no blossoming romance then?

[burningblossoms]

[She's not saying nothing.]

I dunno.

Honoka is Honoka.

What about with you?

[notyourutopian]

Nah.

...

Okay so seriously, you didn't send that text? It clearly says it came from you.

[burningblossoms]

Seriously didn't send that text.

I'm at home right now.

Which means something weird is going on again :(

[notyourutopian]

Lovely.
I'm rather sure it never stopped.
...
Okay.
Weird question for you.
I mean, as weird as anything is lately.

[burningblossoms]

Weird answer, maybe?

Ask away.

[notyourutopian]

Have you...remembered anything?
Anything that didn't happen, I mean.

[burningblossoms]

...

Yes.

A couple of things.

[notyourutopian]

Okay.

I thought they were daydreams at first.
But other people have mentioned similar...

[burningblossoms]

Mine were weird. They involved people I know here.

I thought they were dreams but I was wide awake.

What happened in yours?

[notyourutopian]

Mine didn't.
I didn't recognize anything.

I was a little girl, maybe...seven?
Taking apart a machine.
In a big room made of metal.

[burningblossoms]

That sounds like you.
Except maybe the metal room.

Mine weren't so weird. One was talking to one of the twins, but I was definitely wearing a kimono. And it was definitely in Japan. There were cicadas and stuff, and the last time cicadas were around in America, I didn't know the twins.

The other one was talking to Minako Arisato, just...outside the school in middle school. Only, I was wearing a Japanese school uniform. I've never worn one of those before.

[notyourutopian]

Sure, except for the bit where it never happened.
But if you put the parts in front of me, right now, I'm absolutely sure I could rebuild that machine.

Both in Japan.
Well. At least you have a theme going.

[burningblossoms]

That's really weird. Coo, but weird.

And of course it's my theme.

私は日本人です :)

[notyourutopian]

I continue to not be able to read that.
It's always so pretty though.

But I meant imagine if you had one memory in...I don't know, Japan.

And another in like...Brazil.

[burningblossoms]

"I Am Japanese."

I can't imagine that though. I hope that doesn't happen.

But are they memories? Or are they just daydreams?

[notyourutopian]

Yeah but I never thought of japanese as like, your thing.
It's just something you are.
If that makes sense.

I don't know.
If it were just me I'd think it was a daydream
But it's rather more like everyone.

[burningblossoms]

I guess.
But you know me better than most.

So what do you think it is?
Did we get memories erased like in a movie?

[notyourutopian]

Eh, I bet lots of people see beyond your uh...shell.

That felt weird to say.

No clue.
I mean, even if they were somehow erased memories...you've never been to Japan.

And I was in England when I was that age, not...some strange metal room.

[burningblossoms]

You make me sound like a hermit crab.

And yes I have? I was born there. I moved to America when I was six.
I just haven't been there in twelve years.

Maybe the metal room was in England?

[notyourutopian]

New halloween costume?

Oh I knew that. I did know that. Ugh.

Maybe.
But I...I don't know. I'd remember it.
I don't know

[burningblossoms]

Nah, I'm going as a supervillain this year.

I dunno, but you know what? Even though my phone totally messed up, I was gonna text you with a thought.

Souji and I were talking the other day, and we kept coming back to this idea that something's up. Like, something weird. And we decided we were gonna make something like a mystery solving club. So we can keep sharing information with each other, like these memories.

You in?