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[shiro2hero]

Question for anyone willing to answer.

Has anyone here suddenly... gone home? Back to when and where they were taken from?

If you have, how long were you gone for?

How long was it here?

I know this might not make a lot of sense, but it's -- something I've been trying to figure out for a few days now. And it doesn't add up.

[Because his body, clearly, had been here. But his brain had been... elsewhere. Along with the rest of him, he'd thought.]

[You can't be in two places at once, can you?]

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[shiro2hero]

Lucio left. Entirely. He was gone for months before he came back.

I... Didn't. I didn't leave. My teammates told me I passed out, but



I was home, too. Back where I'd been taken from.

[healinguilt]

[ Well... that's certainly alarming. ] So you're saying that... while you were still here, you were also experiencing events that happened in your home world?

[ Is that how she's supposed to take this information? ] Were your teammates here in your world at the time you "returned" to it?

[shiro2hero]

Yeah. I am. And I know how insane that sounds. But...
I came back with things I didn't have before.

[Namely, scars.]

They were back in my world too. No one here noticed them missing.


It doesn't make any sense. And that's why I'm reaching out.

[healinguilt]

[ So.

There's hope.

There's some sort of hope that she has not completely vanished from her own world. There's hope that whatever version of her still remains, that that version is still going about her normal routine, going to the hospital, doing her research, taking care of her daughter, all without knowing that this Naomi is on some god forsaken space station in an entirely different universe. ]

If what happened to you applies to everyone here, then that's a huge relief.

[ Still. How does she get back? ] While you were back in your world, were you aware that you had been here at all?

[shiro2hero]

I don't... I don't know if it does. I wish I could tell you that was the case.

[And there's the question.]

[There's the thing no one else has asked. The question he never wanted to answer. Or even think about at all. He wants to say yes. He wants to say it's true where everyone can see it. So none of the others have to worry.]

[But that would be a lie, wouldn't it.]


[PRIVATE; TEXT]
I didn't remember anything.


I'm sorry if that isn't what you needed to hear.