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[warfan]

[The camera is steady, though it's filming at an odd angle, as though it's been propped up against something that's not really meant for the job. Which is fine, it does what it needs to, which is to show a young woman seated at what is - given the background - is probably a desk in one of the hotel rooms used to house offworlders.]

There's something I've been wondering about.

Has anyone run into someone you're sure is from your world, but who you don't have any personal connection to? Either directly or through someone else?

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[omnicrafter]

Yes, though ours is a rather... peculiar situation. I've run into it a number of times already.

I take it this has happened to you? I'd consider it a blessing, unless your world is just that bad or something.

[warfan]

Here? Or has something like this happened to you before?

[Belatedly, she realizes the woman had asked her a question.]

And no - everyone from my world is someone I've met personally, before any of this happened. At least so far. That's why I wanted to ask, to see if we were an outlier.

[omnicrafter]

Before... Yes, it has happened before, but I've never seen it happen to anyone else except a small handful of those from our world. It's when you remember someone, but they don't remember you -- and not due to timeline discrepancies so much as the fact that they remember "you" as someone else entirely.

Most people don't seem to have to deal with that, though. It gets rather confusing and awkward after the first six or seven times of explaining who you are and proving you're not lying about it.

[warfan]

So you have a connection to them, but they don't remember having one to you? Has something altered their memories?