[voice]

[sentbytheseer]

[The voice is that of a young man, a little East Coast in accent.]

Late getting here, but look, ok. It took me a minute to cope with whole...thing. Kind of crashed my bike on that first memory, so, you know, wasn't exactly up to hanging out and making friends on the "Different Social Media Channel."

Anyway, I was gonna come on here and be like "Nice to meet you all," but then there's some guy talking about having memories of dying and instead I want to know where we un-sign up for this. Because it was kind of fun-and-games when it was like ...fighting monsters and voice-in-your-head prophecies, but--yeah. Not cool.

...Sorry. Not to make light of his--memory, but it sounds like I got off easy.

I don't really have a question, since I take it we can't really unsign-up. Just thought I should check-in on this thing.

[A pause]

No, actually I do have a question. The Martin guy said he was the, uh. [He fishes out the business card.] The, uh, Head of the Department of Containment at the Bureau of Inter-dimensional Activities.

Are we all supposed to be from different dimensions, or like...the same one?

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[darkforcerising]

I guess if we're using Earth as the center from which we say life forms.

What if Earth humans are the aliens?

[sentbytheseer]

Wouldn't we be, if we were on Tatoo-ween? [All these new words he doesn't know how to say, please excuse.] Heck, I'd be an alien in Canada. Or on Mars. Pretty sure that's the premise of at least one Twilight Zone.

Really, I guess we're all aliens to this dimension. None of us are from here. It just sounds like some of us are really not from here.

Like, when they said "dimensions" I thought, you know. Alternate dimensions. Comic book stuff. Like weird mirror-verse stuff--but still on Earth. But instead we're living that Ancient Aliens meme.

[darkforcerising]

Hey, I was still born here.

We are both alien and not alien.

[sentbytheseer]

Shrodinger's alien?

[darkforcerising]

Hmm... But then are we living both lives simultaniously?

Or is there a strict liniar order to our lives - this life and the one before it? In that case we were aliens before but now we are not.

[sentbytheseer]

And now we're getting too philosophical. That's a bit too cerebral for me. Maybe it's neither, though. I mean, who's to say anymore how any of this works.

[darkforcerising]

I bet the Bureau knows and isn't telling us.

[sentbytheseer]

Maybe, but I'm not gonna be the guy who puts his neck on the line to get them to tell us.

[darkforcerising]

I mean, you do you.