[broadcast memory] i took that hard, but i buried it

[bedsidemanners]

The lights are dim. Nearly every row of the lecture hall is filled with half-grown students just like you, lanky and awkward. There's a projection on the screen

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[brothercumface]

[fuckin' delicious.]

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[brothercumface]

[ahem. i mean.]

Is this...a memory of yours, Mister Raphael?

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[bedsidemanners]

Is what a memory of mine?

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[brothercumface]

That - that lecture hall. With the - the tree, and the girl...

[is this a deliberate AUDIO response or a like unintentional broadcast thought...?]

[trephaestos]

On a world whose inhabitants reportedly come from still different worlds, where machines hijack and publicize thoughts we aren't realizing we're having… what's most remarkable is to come across experiences so in common.

[the post itself? that's unintentional.]

[bedsidemanners]

I think most people go to school.

[sorry, I meant Trep's tag ;-) = his strong reaction to Raphael's, whether or not he said it aloud]

[trephaestos]

[…either way, he's rolling with it. He can't remember pressing the button but can't swear he hadn't voiced his thought. It may be a byproduct of being able to view the transmission in the first place. …And/or, just at this moment. Fair play for being party to the invasion.

But won't quote the specifics back at him. Insult to injury.

No matter how close the ribbons in her hair - dutiful as ever - your sinfulness - more than when you weren't taking the medicine yet hit to home.]

Indeed so.

I'm sorry. I've been tracking this phenomenon across the network. The sender doesn't have a say in the matter but the receiver has a choice whether or not to watch. I apologize for joining the ranks of the voyeurs.

Though since I have, if you would give me your opinion: is letting you know I've seen this preferable to pretending I hadn't?

Especially since we haven't otherwise met.

[…but doesn't offer his name to change that.]

oh! okay, i'm sorry about that!!

[bedsidemanners]

[It takes him half a second to get back some composure, and not just snap at him irrationally.]

Don't worry about it, it... it wasn't particularly important, as memories go. [a pause] And yes, it is.

Who are you?

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[supercilious]

[ Oh. That was a bit. Um. ]

[ Low: ] Er, look, would that really've been so bad, though?

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[bedsidemanners]

At that age I'm sure I would have been punished.

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[supercilious]

How old were you?

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[bedsidemanners]

Time goes slower where I'm from, but for all practical purposes I was about twelve or thirteen.