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[latkje]

[ This is Nash. He has a pleasant but lazy expression. ]

I don't like to live in the past. It makes me feel old. But when a thought eats at you, sometimes the only thing you can do is take a bite, right?

Anyway, a few weeks ago something the Initiative did put people in their wrong bodies. I don't mean to drudge up bad memories, but— think about it. What are we, really? Hands, feet, fingers, eyes?

We've all got bodies, but souls? [ He shakes his head. ] Not for me to say.

But if the Initiative can keep our fingers and toes and move the rest around, it means there has to be something else, right? And whatever that something else is, the Initiative can mess with it it.

[ The implications are spooky, so he takes a moment to be spooked. And then waves that all away, shrugging. ]

You ever stop to think, and not know how to start up again?

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[latkje]

It can be. Some of us are just chaotic.

[heartsink]

Yes, I can't say that's much surprise.

Are you?

[latkje]

Hmmm.

In some ways yes, in other ways no.

But I can't say I'm an excellent judge of my own character. No one really is, right?

[heartsink]

We are our harshest judges, sometimes. But it doesn't make us wrong.

Were you one that was forced into an unfamiliar shell?

[latkje]

Hey, some of us are our own biggest fan. Everyone who looks in the mirror sees more than the glass.

But no. I wasn't.

[heartsink]

Someone close to you?

[latkje]

Not really.

[heartsink]

You're more curious than most, if all that's true.

[latkje]

That I'll admit to.

[heartsink]

Any interesting theories crop up?

[latkje]

About the switch?

[heartsink]

Or their power over us, or anything else. I'm a little curious, too.

[latkje]

It wasn't a spell like anything I know.

If it was accidental, it says something about how their technology works.

Usually you can get from point A to point B without separating your own points A and B.

[heartsink]

It seemed like more people arrived with their A's and B's connected, but I can't say for sure.

You know spells?

[latkje]

I'm not an expert, or anything.

[ from a JRPG where everyone can equip magic ]

[heartsink]

Without a frame of reference, a deflection like that doesn't mean much.

[latkje]

I know.

What do you think an expert is?

[heartsink]

In that sort of field? I haven't any experience with something like that, so I couldn't begin to guess.

[latkje]

Then you'll have to trust my judgment, huh?

[heartsink]

It still doesn't specify anything.

If you don't want to talk about it, why not just say so?

[ hypocriiiiiiiiiiteeeeeeeeee. ]

[latkje]

Because I've forgotten how to be direct in my impending old age.

And I don't see the point of detailing my mediocrity for someone who claims they wouldn't be able to understand it anyway.

They can read this, too, you know, and I wouldn't mind being a little mysterious. Much like the people who never show their face on these things, hmmm?

[heartsink]

True enough (´ー^♡) Though you did mention it in the first place. I can't help being curious.

[latkje]

[ What are emoticons he doesn't know!!]

You're right. I did.

[heartsink]

[ The closest she'll get to willingly showing her face on-camera in public!! ]

And we've gone off track.

[latkje]

You don't get anywhere interesting without detours.