Journal [Entry 077] Audio Memory... The Truth is Out There

[extantlaw]

[Static; a quiet buzzing that blends into the sound of voices - excited yet hushed - none of them quite audible enough to make out words. Heels on a marble floor; the creak of a door; the faint sound of a distant hubbub and the rattle of a hundred camera shutters before everything is muted again.

Then there's a voice that's louder than the rest -

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[interveningly]

I wonder if this memory is a 'a truth' - or just another means of tormenting us.

[extantlaw]

[His voice is clear of any inflection - not quite cold, but certainly cool.]

The truth is not always pleasant, or something we wish to hear.

[interveningly]

Many of us have heard unpleasant truths this week. That and the desire to find out the whole of our pasts is not mutually exclusive.

[extantlaw]

That is hardly a revelation.

[interveningly]

[There's a thoughtful silence from Veda - somewhat ruined by the sound of the other Veda barking in the background - before he speaks again]

Do you believe, then, that truth is something that can be obtained here? [He actually does sound curious, if rather... blunt]