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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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i haven't
but i know a lot of people who have
i don't know of anyone who left, came back, and remembered being here though

That's the thing. My team says... I didn't leave. But now I remember things I didn't before I "left". It's like suddenly, I got caught up to their timeline, somehow.

Did that happen to you?

(Eddie sounds concerned. Especially considering their recent conversation. He might not be an adult like Shiro, but he's still his friend and you bet he's gonna try and do what he can to take care of him.)

[He'd almost prefer text, but, hey. This is Eddie. Kid's earned the voice-to-voice conversation.]

Yeah. Recently. I'm not... really sure how to process it.

(A good man, a better decision.)

That's...wild. Were you aware you were still here while back home or? Maybe it was one of those weird lucid dreams?

No, I was there. I thought I was there, felt like I was there.

[He is so, so sure of himself. After all...]

Dreams don't hurt like that did.

Oh...

(Eddie couldn't deny that, and it has him chewing at his lip.)

Jesus, Shiro. I'm sorry. How long were you- back home for?

It's not your fault. I... probably could have phrased that a lot better.

[His bad.]

It... it felt like months. But everyone says it was only a week, at most.

No, it's okay. I meant I'm sorry it's not a dream.

(Eddie's not even remotely upset. He's just...More concerned than he had been. This is out of his realm a bit, but he's gonna try hard. He does wind up staring a little, because months?)

I don't know if this is the same, but someone here told me once that when people die they come back to life sometimes. I wonder if it has to do with that. And how people come here in the first place?

I get it. Thanks.

[Even if, you know, there's no way it could change anything.]

No idea. Maybe. But I woke up in the medical bay. The others said I just passed out. I'm hoping maybe someone else here has more experience.

I can ask around for you too. I know some people have been here for a suuuper long time.

(And people who just seemed to know a lot more about stuff like the Ingress or whatever. Eddie still barely knew the names of things.)

...You didn't get hurt too badly did you? Back in your home.

(He knows Shiro had said it hurt. Eddie wonders how that would work for injuries. Sure his body might be okay, but what about his head?)

Thanks, Eddie. You're a big help.

[And he means that, too. Not just saying it for Eddie's benefit.]

Ah... it.

It's over with, man. Don't worry about it, okay?

[Which means yes. He nearly died, but he doesn't want to worry this kid anymore.]

Willing to share what you've found out?

[ As someone who's new, she's rather curious. ]

Unfortunately? Not much so far. The closest anyone's come is talking about people who physically left. But that's That's not what happened here.

I left for two years and when I got back here it was six months later.

I also know someone who experienced more of their timeline while they were in cryo, but he's gone now. Or that version of him is.

Physically left? Or...? Yeah. That's what I mean. "more of the timeline"

What do you mean? Has there been someone who's left and returned right afterward?

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.

[ 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?

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.

[ 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?

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.

[ This just got a lot more complicated than she thought. It takes her a moment to respond. ]

This sort of theorizing is beyond my area of expertise-- [ Like, really beyond what she's used to dealing with, so much so that she already feels a headache coming on. ] --but it seems like that fact can imply a number of things.

For one, it doesn't matter what we learn here, what we experience, or what we are told from someone from our own world that's taken from a different point in time. We will not carry the knowledge back with us to our world.

For another, it may be that even if we do return to our homeworlds, there's probably no guarantee that we will remember this place if we return to the station.

Yeah. Me too. I'm used to plotting direction, flight paths... not timeline. Either way it Doesn't exactly bode well for us here. That we don't remember anything that happens. Or the people we might have left behind. I know I've made promises here I meant to keep back home. Sorry -- I don't think I've met you before. I'm Shiro.

I physically left, yes.

I didn't remember anything about this place while I was gone, but I remembered all of both when I returned.

So you've seen things from your own timeline?

I didn't. I was here the whole time... Was anything different about you, when you got back? Physically? I have good reason to believe I did, yes.

Physically? Well, I live in a robot where I come from, but whenever I show up here, I have a human body.

[ Shiro knows she's an AI, right? She doesn't really make it a secret. ]

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Wait what okay, okay but I mean was there a difference in your body

I'm an AI. I guess that news never reached you.

And no, there wasn't.

no that part is. New. Then that's different. I had a couple healed injuries I didn't have when I "left".

I don't know anything about bodies being different. Did you go into the Ingress?

No My teammates said I fainted, ended up in stasis, and when I woke up... there were healed injuries I didn't have before.

[ She looks at the message for a moment. I know I've made promises here I meant to keep back home... Now that is the most unfortunately implication. That any change or progress made is forefit to be forgotten. She wonders, then, if she will change as she stays here.

Or.... if she changes for the worse. If that disease resurfaces and there's no one here to help her, if she dies here, what then? ] Do you happen to know anyone who's been here the longest?

My name is Naomi Kimishima. It's a pleasure. I'm still new, but if you need anything I'll be around the medical wing. I'm a surgeon in my home world.

That I can't explain. It's definitely unsettling.

It's hard to tell. Not everyone advertises it. Maybe some of the people responding here would be a good place to start. A surgeon. This is going to sound ... really weird, but it's good to have another medical staff here.

I know what happened. But it didn't happen here. So... I'm at a loss.

[ At that, she wonders how far back on the network she can look to see whoever is still here. Not to mention, what sort of problems in the past the people aboard have had. But for now, the mystery will remain a mystery.

As for his second statement: ]

I'm guessing that there aren't much doctors around?

I was worried I wouldn't be of much use here, given that the technology that goes into building a space station like this is far beyond my own world's. Fortunately so far a lot of the equipment on the medbay is recognizable. A scalpel is a scalpel wherever anyone goes. And the Cryo Wing's machines is similar to what I've worked with before as well. I'll do what I can.

[ She comes from the year 2020, where apparently they have those things. ]

It you don't mind me asking, is there a lot of... danger that happens around here? Besides broken panels falling from the ceiling.

The two I've trusted the most have vanished. I don't think I need to tell you trust is... it's a big issue for a lot of people where doctors are concerned.

[For him, hospitals kicked off too many bad memories too close to home. Angela and Lucio had always been able to make those feelings, those flashbacks, subside.]

[There's probably a lot of people in this same boat.]

Our supplies are limited. So even with the cryo pods, we can always use more people who know what they're doing. ... and yeah. It comes and goes. But either something goes wrong with the station, or someone is bringing something onboard they shouldn't. Either that, or a planet ends up being more dangerous than we originally thought.

[ She can understand not exactly automatically earning someone's trust just by simply having MD attached to the end of her name, and she wouldn't ask for it either. Hell, among all of her own peers at home, she would count herself among the least trustworthy what with her past.

But. It's a past she's trying to make up for. Started to, in her own world. And she supposes she can continue that goal in this one. ] Understood. Here's to earning your trust starting now... whether that means helping with dangerous planets or whatever is brought aboard this ship or not.

[ She suspects that this conversation is getting a little too personal, though. So on a lighter hearted note, she adds: ] Just. Please don't ask me about any ingrown toenail you might have. Feet are a hard no in my practice.

The more hands we have, the better. I'm really trying not to end up in the medical bay these days... nothing personal. I just said I'd try harder to get into less trouble.

[It's nothing against this Naomi, or any other doctor here. He'd just promised the team. He's got to live up to his word, after all.]

Don't want them within ten feet of you, huh?

[Yeah that was a joke. A really bad one.]

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