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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]

Thank heaven.

Because I’ve hit the rock bottom process of double-checking the alibis of anyone with the extranatural powers to kill Zee in the way he got killed.

The real answer is I dont know what the hell I’m doing anymore.

[notyourutopian]

...I'm a suspect?

[standalonehuman]

NO. And now if your name ever does come up, I know where you were.

I’m still more of a suspect than anyone else, but I’ve got the same alibi.

[notyourutopian]

I liked Zee.
I guess it makes sense I'd be a suspect though...

But you don't have powers.
How could you have done it?

[standalonehuman]

I didn’t even realize that I thought of Zee as a friend until I automatically called him one. Then, he was gone.

I.

I’ve got a suit of armor that makes me mostly invisible.

More or less ridiculous than the shotgun?

[notyourutopian]

Mostly invisible isn't the same thing as invisble though.

Nothing is more ridiculous than that shotgun though.

[standalonehuman]

Knew you had to be the one to ask.

I’m probably judging it harsher because I know what to look for. Anybody else, yeah, it’s invisible.

I didn’t do it. But I have no idea who did.

[notyourutopian]

There were splicers in Rapture who were 'mostly invisible.' I remember getting pretty good at spotting them.

The truth will come out.
One way or another, it always does.

[standalonehuman]

Hell! Like those things we’ve fought? A few times, first last June? But invisible?

There aren’t words for how scary but impressive that is.

I hope the truth will come out before we make a really big mistake. That’s what I’m most afraid of.

[notyourutopian]

Similar.
But these ones threw fireballs like I can.

At this point
What mistakes are even left to make?

[standalonehuman]

[ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW, ELEANOR, TOGUSA CAN'T EVEN TELL ANYMORE]

Nobody else has ended up dead.

[notyourutopian]

[Rapture is a rough place, okay?]

Hah. I hadn't thought of that.

Are you worried about retaliation from people Zee knew?

[standalonehuman]

That has actually been my top worry. More so than the killer striking again. People taking this into their own hands and getting it wrong.

We've got a lot of people in this city who have memories of people who were heroes, big movers and shakers in the worlds that they came from. It's a tough burden to bear already, but it might drive some people to vigilantism.

[notyourutopian]

Hmm.
But if they think of themselves as heroes, they'd try to bring the person responsible in alive, wouldn't they?

I think most people, when pressed, will always try to do the right thing.

[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?