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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]

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?

[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.