[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]

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.

[inabook]

I will. And it hasn't changed my own decision.