Tenth Theory [Action/Voice]

[i_speak_softly]

((Backdated to the 9th, I think.))

[The morning after this, Don comes back to C6, and lets himself into the apartment.]

I'm back.

[His journal is waiting for him. He flips it open.]

Is there a My Friend Got Sent Back to Their Home Dimension support group here? If there isn't... there should be.

Comments

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

I don't think we've ever had actual counselors or psychologists for that kind of thing. [He pauses.] They'd be overloaded with work pretty fast, in Luceti.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

No, there doesn't have to be a ... moderator. Just people who are going through the same thing, and can help each other.

Have you lost someone?

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

Just somewhere where people can talk? I guess that'd be better than being psychoanalyzed.

...Ah... I've been on both ends. Lost and sent back.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

Yes. It doesn't even have to be in person. If we stood back from our journals, it would almost be anonymous.

So it's true then? People come back, sometimes?

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

It's a good idea, but it wouldn't be private from other people. [Or the Malnosso.] We've clearly got some nasty jerks in Luceti.

Sometimes people come back. It's uncommon to show up again ... but downright rare for them to remember being here.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

I'm pretty good at filters - maybe I could make one that would encompass a circle of people, and keep out anyone else?

They... don't remember? My brother who disappeared already came from earlier in the timeline than the rest of us. If he came back not remembering this either...

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

If you could ask for participants, then set up the filter for a later post ... yeah, that should work. It'd secure some privacy, at least.

It's... I tried to figure out the variables in the whole disappearance-and-reappearance phenomenon before, but that was back before we learned that the Malnosso have no control of who disappears. Just about the only thing I figured out was that, if he came from earlier in the timeline than when he first arrived, he definitely wouldn't remember Luceti.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

Well, that makes sense. But I heard that people don't remember this place after they leave it, so even if someone came back from later in their own timeline, they wouldn't remember having been here...

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

Right. When I returned to my world, I didn't remember anything about Luceti until I came back here. Like a switch goes on or off.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

Repressed mental states.... Interesting. What's your name?

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

Leon. Leon D.S. Geeste. And you're one of Michelangelo's brothers?

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

You knew him too?

[No wonder he never saw Mike in Luceti. The little socialite was always off playing with other people.]

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

Eh heh... Well. We did some things in the Brigade together. Sorta. [His brigade team was full of fail.]

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

I'm glad he was happy, while he was here...

I'm Don, by the way.

[voice]

[book_of_chaos]

Nice to meet you, Don.

...Yeah, he always seemed excited at meetings. And this is another part of losing someone -- meeting the people who knew him, too.

[voice]

[i_speak_softly]

[... Interesting concept. Don was pretty sure, that, back home, he already knew everyone Mike knew.]

It's just so ironic that someone who wanted to stay here got sent home anyway.