[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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[consortofalderaan]

I hadn't thought about different dimensions. But that would explain a lot.

Or some. It creates more questions. Like how did we get here from there?

[sentbytheseer]

Well. I mean, it's on the card: Inter-dimensional Activities. And the things I'm remembering definitely aren't anything from around here.

I don't know. You'd think we'd know if we crossed through something, right? And you'd think my parents would've noticed a long time ago if they just suddenly acquired a kid that isn't theirs?

[consortofalderaan]

I do have very clear memories of growing up here in New York.

But also very clear memories of growing up on a different planet.

But I'm not sure the one contradicts the other.

[sentbytheseer]

I'm not sure how it doesn't though. How do you get two whole childhoods? Two whole LIVES?

[consortofalderaan]

Some religions include reincarnation as part of their belief systems.

[sentbytheseer]

Okay, but...do they account for those lives taking place on different worlds? And for that matter, how many other lives does that mean we have?

[consortofalderaan]

I haven't studied any that do, no.

But could ideas of the afterlife actually just be another life, in a different "dimension" than this one?

[sentbytheseer]

Trippy. Cool, but trippy.

[consortofalderaan]

I don't know how to verify any of what I just speculated.