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xenologue 3 || voice

So the day has worn on...and on. And the sky shows no sign of incoming terrors from where I'm standing. Will this be one of those long lapses I've heard tell of?

Whatever was done was enough, friends and imPorts. I'm grateful to those who found a way...

[a beat.

exhale.]

Forgive me. I wish to ask of things touched upon again and again -- much more than the span of days we've just endured. I've already read so much about the past here that I may go cross-eyed to scour any further, and...and there's...something to be said of hearing truths from first-hand sources.

Should you be willing, please tell me: how long did it take you to know for certain your friend or loved one has left-- returned, as it were. What did you do? How many days did it take you to find it in you to be certain?

...How did you know they had forgotten, too? All of this, good and ill. [with an empty laugh in her voice:] There's a lot to be said about fools who believe anything in life is certain, of course, but all the same... A fool like me can at least do her part to ask.

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You can't ever be sure, that's the rub. But practically speaking -- a few days, it might be temporary. A couple of weeks, the chance they'll come back with their memory is lower, but it's still a solid possibility. Longer than a month...if they come back at all, you can't count on them remembering you.

holding out hope for a month is reasonable. i think after that it starts to fade regardless of how hard you try to keep it.

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are you okay?

[He wants, so badly, to answer this.

But every time he writes something the guilt bleeds through, and despite Owain not mentioning Lucina by name, his request not to tell Peter still rings in his ears.

He hates it.

But he can't tell her.

So instead he turns off his comm and turns off his neural link and hopes nothing else today reminds him. He still has a job to do.

Three days.

Owain's got three days, to come back.]

In my experience? Half a day to know they're missing.

Month to assume they're not coming back. Or that if they do, that they won't be the same.

[There's a reason he picked text for his response, after a long beat of deliberation.]

It sucks.

Whenever the name goes missing from the network listing, they have been Ported back. Anything else is just left to chance. They could be gone just few days, weeks - months. And they could come back with their memories or not. There is no certain way of telling. Do you wish to talk for a bit, Lucina-san?

...Hey, are you okay...?

It seems like people were acting weird again, but I don't really know what's going on. Who's missing?

You can never be certain, of course, and it's not foolish to want that certainty. I think it's all about managing expectations but not giving up hope. Hope is important, too. They might come back. It's always possible. It's not foolish to give up on that hope, either.

I'm not sure if there's any way to know for sure. In experience, it seems like the longer they might be gone, the less likely the chances are that they'll return [ if at all ] with an intact memory of being here.

[ how long was Jyn gone before she came back, without a memory? Two weeks, or three? ]

... it took about three weeks. For a friend to come back, without her memory. Doesn't mean it'll always be the case, but. To give you an idea.

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I think for me it took a couple of weeks to be sure that he was gone and not just keeping to himself.

He hasn't come back though, I hope he doesn't.

I've only been here a few months, but I knew someone who left and returned with all her memories. [ "Knew" implying that she's gone again already, perhaps. ] Is that uncommon?

I haven't had anyone leave and come back yet...but apparently, Nico's been here before. Didn't really realize it until people started acting like they knew him--or mentioned things that happened here.

...Guess you can't really be certain, though. [A pause.] Did something happen?

I don't think there is any way to really tell except for maybe checking the network directory.

Did someone you know leave?

I'm sorry you lost someone, Lucina. That's always hard.

But for what it's worth, I tend to give it one month. Anything more than that and things start to get dicey. It's not impossible for them to come back after more than that, and it's definitely not impossible for them to come back without memories after that, but... it gets more unlikely the more time passes.

How long's it been?

Who has left?

[ Someone close to Lucina, which means -- ]

I am not sure it is ever too long to give up hope. But apparently common knowledge is that after a week or so their odds of returning are much smaller.

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