Library, Wednesday

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Sholeh and Zeela had started a small ritual. Whenever one woke up, they would immediately confer with the other about small things. Little details chosen at random. If they agreed on what they remembered, they'd escaped whatever the latest bout of...Fandom...ness...that was currently...Fandoming. If they didn't agree, they promised not to waste time trying to figure out which one of them was 'right.' It hadn't happened yet, but it comforted Sholeh to have a plan.

Along that same vein, she was still setting out books for any researchers that decided to wander through. This week, she pulled out books about memory, memory spells and charms, and amnesia. That wasn't the same thing as whatever was happening, with people actually changing who they were (Sholeh and Zeela both agreed that Cecil hadn't been an adult when he'd started school and certainly didn't have tentacles!), but it was somewhere to start.

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Re: Talk to Sholeh

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"Y'know, I really don't think memory's the problem, here," Joker mentioned, looking at the books she'd picked.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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"Not really," Sholeh agreed with a sigh. "But I'm hoping that if people look through them, maybe something in there will trigger an insight or a breakthrough or something useful."

Still, she picked up a few of the books to put away again. "I started looking for stuff about alternate dimensions, but the problem with living on an interdimensional nexus is that we're all alternate dimensions."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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Joker nodded. "And I can't even find much on that, at least not anything useful. And even when the alternate dimensions are really close..."

He frowned, trying to figure out how to explain what he was thinking. "Okay, so, there are a few people here who are from my future. I'm not absolutely certain, but I'm pretty sure that if I go home and do everything opposite from the way they remember it, that's not going to change them any. Our universes are independent. But somehow, these other, evil ones are are not..."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

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"Do you think that maybe someone went back and started mucking up people's pasts?" Sholeh asked, wide-eyed. "Like, deliberately trying to change things? But for what reason?"

That was the problem. It just didn't make any sense for someone to do that. At least, everything so far had seemed pretty random.

"I don't think it's evil, though," she added. "I mean, a friend of mine now remembers getting adopted and growing up in a loving family. I hardly think that counts as evil."