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[There are several orders of business, here, and Lisbeth gets right down to them: no greeting, no please, no thank you.]

I want to know how many people have left the ship and then returned. With or without memories of being here before, and how long they were gone. Firsthand accounts or otherwise.

I also want to know how often our brains and bodies are fucked with and whether anyone's unaffected. I know this isn't the first time. [And if you're stupid enough to go blabbing to a stranger about the memories you're experiencing, be her guest, but she's not asking for that.]

I need these items:
- disposable camera
- soldering iron
- copper wire
- electrical tape

Contact me privately and we'll arrange something.

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Good luck finding what you need.

And, if it matters, I'm holding out that we keep our memories. I've been told that there's no chance of it, but I don't buy into that.

Some seem to have left and returned with their memories of this place.

No way of knowing if anyone who leaves for good remembers what happened here, I assume.

No way of knowing, but I can't act as if it doesn't matter.

For friends or yourself?

Myself. I don't want to lose what I've gained here.

[Of course, he'd like it if those from earlier in the timeline cared to listen to his warnings and were willing to prevent the coming war, but that's not going to happen. Not now.]

What have you gained?

Back home, I went into a trade school and to war when I was pretty young. I've been doing that for seven years without much of anything else and when I go back, I'll have to return to it.

Here, I can ask all sorts of questions and get answers. And when there aren't answers, I can usually find a book with something like an answer. Or with more questions.

I don't want to give that up.

Must have come from a shitty fucking place to prefer kidnapping over home.

I don't prefer it, but I like that I can learn something new here. More opportunity, I suppose?

That's optimistic of you.

I wouldn't say that. Pragmatic, maybe. Damnably foolish if we're being honest.

When all is said and done, I will return home to a world where I won't have this sort of easy access to do and say and learn about what I want.

Where are you from?

Britain, but I'm a part of a community that is pretty staunchly isolationist. Sort of Luddites?

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