IC Contact (post return to game)

[pale_blue_arrow]

You've reached Brendan Frye. 'm out right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you soon as I can manage. Send a text if you wanna have words 'nd it's urgent. Thanks.

Comments

[h2no]

Not that I know of, no. I didn't know everyone you knew, only the ones that you spoke of to me.

[manabu, again, comes to the forefront of his mind, but archie doesn't mention him.]

Kaneki's just... the guy everyone knows. He's been here a long time-- not the longest, but a long time.

[pale_blue_arrow]

This is gonna be a chore, figuring out who I did and didn't know and how close we were and all that. At least it's summer, so I've got the free time to do it without cutting class.

'm almost afraid to ask, but who's been here the longest and how long've they been here?

[h2no]

Ah...

[he frowns.]

Tony Stark, at about a decade. He's an outlier, though. Lotta people I know at a few years, I'm almost at two. Along with intermittently being Ported in and out.

[pale_blue_arrow]

...ten years. Well, damn. Never thought I'd be sayin' this, but considering what'll happen if I go back home, another ten years to live sounds like a Godsend. Probably not gonna happen, though. I know how my luck runs.

Does everybody lose their memory when they glitch in an' out, or is that a one-off?

[h2no]

He seems to be an outlier. Most people range from a month to a year to more. There's no pattern to it unfortunately.

[he closes his eyes briefly. there's a lot in that statement that's upsetting, for a bunch of reasons.]

Any amount of time you get to be here, away from there, is... [he trails off.] It happens fairly often. I don't know whether to say that's fortunate or unfortunate...