w7 still-not-curfew: kaveh drinks and swims in this one.

[rewriter]

[we are slightly less depressed. we are in the pool. we are slightly less depressed in the pool.]

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[camena]

I don't know why they wouldn't be. We didn't really... deal with them.

[ also. holding her hand out? give cigarette. ]

[westedge]

I don't know. We didn't really see them roaming around either, but...I guess we didn't really look.

[ looks at her hand. ]

This one or your own?

[camena]

Maybe someone else... dealt... with them?

[ i hope that was not a thing the erased had to deal with for some reason? somehow? ]

That one.

[westedge]

...hopefully not the other us, actually. [ but he does hand over the cigarette. here. enjoy. ]

[camena]

[ thanks, hers now. ]

... What do you think happens? If past-us get hurt or something? Would it retroactively hit us, here? Or do we stay displaced from it because we're from another timeline? [ who cares. ]

[westedge]

[ ...................

uh. hm. good question. ]

Pro...bably the latter? I guess? Seems weird to hit us later if we're technically from two different timelines now. Or points in time. Whatever.

[camena]

[ she is thinking very deeply about this while she smokes, for some reason. ]

We proooobably shouldn't check in with ourselves. But, like, it would be interesting to. See if there's been a butterfly effect sort of thing?

[westedge]

No. [ just. immediately no. also alex why! ] No, nope, we are not doing that, no.

[camena]

Wouldn't it give us a higher chance of changing things if we could warn ourselves?

[westedge]

Or it expedites the process because something else happens we can't foresee. That's the thing.

[camena]

... Maybe. And I guess we're here, so it's fine if they do things the same as the first time around?

[westedge]

Probably. If we're here, it means nothing actually changed to erase ourselves sooner. [ versus if they tried to change something to stop people from dying or sharing things or etc... ]

[camena]

[ ... ]

Time travel's weird, Jonas.

[westedge]

No kidding. [ there's a sigh to that. ] Do we have to think about it that much?

[camena]

No. Yes? ... I do.

[westedge]

[ ....yeah. okay. that's fair. ]

...right. Yeah, of course. Um. [ um... ] We can...talk about whatever possibilities you think are worth thinking about. They're just possibilities, right?

[camena]

It's... ultimately pretty pointless brainstorming, I guess. Since I can't just run off and experiment with this to see how it works, and even if I could that wouldn't mean much about how it works back home. Probably.

[westedge]

Probably. I think our stuff works differently anyway. [ ... ] You're still planning to go back home then? If we figure out how to fix all of this.

[camena]

... Are you... not?

[westedge]

That's not what I said. [ ... ] You know I'm going to go wherever you want to go. Even if I absolutely hate it.

[camena]

Okay. Different question. And it is a different question so don't just answer it the same way.

Where do you want to go?

[westedge]

[ no, this is still the same question to him and he kind of wishes alex hadn't taken his cigarette, actually. ]

I don't know. I don't know if it really matters. We don't even know if going someplace else really is an option even though a few people have asked and some have mentioned offering a place for us in their worlds.

[ which at the time had been a sweet offer but now they're like. dead. and he's not sure how he feels about anything. ]

[camena]

[ suffer, she's keeping it. ]

But you brought it up like there were other options. So now we're talking about it and assuming there are other options. [ and none of that was exactly an answer to her new, completely different question. ]

[westedge]

Again, we have no idea if those options could even work. [ gah. ] Look, all I know is I don't want you disappearing again. The end.

[camena]

So if we don't know if any other options would work, then yes. I'm planning on going home?