[Locked from Malnosso//Unhackable]

[malnosso]

You are all terribly distrustful. That's good.

So that you're working with an informed opinion however, this was the work of neither myself nor the Organization.

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[malnosso]

Oh, is that what they say?

Actually dear, could you tell me what your letter says? Whoever sent them was talented enough to fool my analytical programs.

[inabook]

All right.

"Dear Estellise,

We extend to you the opportunity to return home. This deal is a non-conditional one time offer; additionally, once you have been returned home, you will never again reappear in Luceti. You will be returned in the same condition as when you left, and you will remember nothing of your time spent on this world.

If that is not sufficient, you may wait to see if the Organization is capable of returning you. Know that this chance will not be repeated. Know also that your continued absence from your world/universe has dire consequences on your future, those close to you, etc. Your existence here is unnatural, and every day you spend here breaks you apart.

Soon, you will be just like Tyr.

Your calendar Friday, we will open a gate in the central plaza of this settlement. It will remain there for twenty-four hours. Use that time to escape from this world.

Choose wisely."

sorry, my bad; clarification

[malnosso]

Oh ho. Oh they are not going to be happy about this at all.

Estelle, I want you to do something for me; you -or someone you trust- need to use the laptops and tell everyone to keep further discussions concerning "breaking apart," unnatural existences and Tyr need to be kept off of the journals.

/o I was wondering lol

[inabook]

I can, but, people have been talking about this for a while. You don't think it's too late?

[malnosso]

It might be, but the more it's discussed in the open, the more panicked they'll be, and you don't want to deal with a panicked Organization. Honestly they're a bit like horses; stick a pair of blinders on them and they'll just see the road right in front.

[inabook]

Okay. I'll go there now.

Can you explain why it's important, though?

[malnosso]

Well, first of all those rumors are all highly classified.

Second of all...they're true.

[inabook]

...True?

You're certain?

[malnosso]

I'd say about ninety-five percent.

[inabook]

[she doesn't respond for a long moment.]

Is there any way to stop it?

[malnosso]

Returning home would throw a wrench in it.

I'm not saying it'll happen in a year or two; it could take hundreds, thousands of years for either of those consequences to come to fruition. Though I imagine being here thousands of years would be a rather horrifying prospect.

[inabook]

But it does happen, and it did to Mr. Tyr.

[...] Does that mean we could stay here for that long? Dying and being revived... or are we not aging?

[malnosso]

Wellll...assuming you don't end up like Tyr before you die of old age, you'd be revived back at the physical age you arrived at. So say you reached one hundred glorious years...you'd die -hopefully of natural causes- and wake up again in the body of a nineteen-year-old.

[inabook]

I see...

...Not to change the subject, but does this happen every time someone dies?

[malnosso]

More or less.

[inabook]

So in essence...

People living here are trapped in a cycle. It will take a while but eventually, we'll 'break apart' and become like Mr. Tyr... is that right?

[malnosso]

To become that way only from dying of old age would take millions of years. I'm pretty sure the letter was referencing your constant exposure to Shifting.

[inabook]

The experiments are hastening it?

[malnosso]

Without a doubt.

[inabook]

So is the hundreds or thousands of years our limit, or yours?

[malnosso]

My limit is significantly greater than yours, but I do have one. Yours is up in the air.

[inabook]

You can't give an estimate?

[malnosso]

Sweetie, if we could calculate that you'd already be home.

[inabook]

I see.

Thank you for telling us all of this.

[malnosso]

Don't mention it.

...listen, kid, don't...think too hard on this. I know that's a rather stupid thing to suggest, but...try not to.