ELEVEN // 拾壹 {accidental voice: Japanese}

[foresight2020]

This world is dying.

[ There's some muttering, but it trails off as though the speaker wandered away from the device and then back again. During the substantial pause, you can mostly only hear the pitter-patter(-fizz?) of rain outside. ]I should be the last person to chastise someone for wishing to bring back something beautiful and beloved, but

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[refracted_green]

...Dying?

[foresight2020]

Life here would seem to be so difficult as to have become improbable.

[refracted_green]

...We're still alive, aren't we? It's not over yet.

[foresight2020]

It will not be 'over' in that sense until there is no one to resurrect us each time we die.

[refracted_green]

There's nothing we can do about that unless we know how they're doing it.

[foresight2020]

And here I was holding out hope that I could convince them to give up with my charm alone.

You are right, of course, but what they do on almost a weekly basis is quite nearly impossible to my knowledge. I cannot imagine how they would do it so completely and with such apparent ease.

[refracted_green]

People coming back to life... isn't natural. So the way they're doing it probably isn't natural, either.

Nothing about this place is natural.

[foresight2020]

Knowing that, there should be obvious consequences. Something would be lost, and it shouldn't be something that may be hidden from us.

[refracted_green]

That makes sense, but I haven't noticed anything different about the people who have come back to life.

[foresight2020]

Perhaps they are not the ones taking the loss, as strange as that seems.

[refracted_green]

Who else is there?

[foresight2020]

There are those performing the procedure.

[refracted_green]

...Why would they risk that?

[foresight2020]

They may not be aware that they're doing so. That, or the world itself is suffering for it, in which case we might not be able to tell at present.

Or it could be that for some reason what they are doing is outside of the parameters that I have come to know as the rules by which a universe must operate.

[refracted_green]

Maybe there's no consequence for it at all. They seem to do a lot of things for their own amusement.

[foresight2020]

Such as?