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( ooc ; likely spoilers for rebirth endgame chapters within )

[ One moment she's there, in her apartment, and the next...back on Gaia. With no memories of the city, the other world, where she'd been for months, fighting to save the planet she'd been unceremoniously returned to. And then...after so much on the home front, she'd found herself right back in Etraya: her memories of the time before in tact, as well as the memories of the things she'd been through in the interim. The things Cloud had already known about, but kept from her.

After she reappears and processes all the memories, she has to recuperate a bit. Without anyone around, the usually-cheery Aerith doesn't have to mask her expression, and sits in her apartment, letting it all break over her like unceasing waves onto someone whose feet are thoroughly stuck in the sand. (It's not unlike when her plushie was destroyed, honestly, which feels like ages ago.) When that's...more or less done, she reaches for her phone.

She doesn't leave the unit, doesn't go down the hall. Yet.

In crafting a message to the network, she opts for text because, this time, she doesn't trust herself to keep a straight enough face. To keep all of what's happened - disappearing from this world, returning to her own with no memories of Etraya, and...the weight of their journey at home - from her voice. So, she takes a deep breath and begins typing, eventually sending out: ]

long time no see, etraya! or, maybe it hasn't been that long, considering all of the plant life at my place is still in good shape.

so...has anybody been back home? that is: was brought here, then went back somehow with no memories of ever having been here, then got pulled back again? consider me curious about the details.

i know i can't be the only one. right?

also...if there're any kind souls out there who don't mind giving me a little refresher on our current mission, it'd be much appreciated. thanks!

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[ I didn’t realize that was something that can happen. Are you okay? Did anything bad happen here before you went home? Did you ask Aurora to go back?

You just went back somehow? ( huh. )

( sorry, what now? )

mission's been and gone, be glad you missed it. no details on the next one yet.

no-one else has mentioned leaving and coming back. you asked aurora about it?

You lost all memories of being here?

[A knot of dread sits in her stomach.]

Are you sure you actually went back? You didn't just regain memories further along the timeline? Or - I don't know, received a flash of knowledge regarding the future?

I haven't uncovered any information on the network about people leaving and coming back later, only that they've left. The same goes for other planets; they disappear without a trace, but there isn't any data on them that I can find at the moment.

You might be the first, unless someone kept it to themselves.

no, never happened.

and i wouldn't want to anyway.

I didn't know such a thing is possible.

So then, we can be returned temporarily, and we lose memories. When all of this is finished, then...

[ He cuts off his own thought, disliking the feeling of it. ]

That can happen in this place?

I mean, sure I guess, might as well happen.

[ Like it wasn't insane to begin with, goddess help him. ]

on the note of memory
...
have you encountered people from your world in etraya with memories of the past that differ from your own
?

[ Don't mind him, he's still getting used to technology as well as text being a verb now. ]

How long has it been for you?

sorry you're back. unless you wanna be here

[ hey!!! who knows!! ]

losing your memories but getting them back here doesn't make a lot of sense. did you have anything with you from this place back in your world?

[ .. dang. Fabian didn't know that was even a thing that could happen. Was Aerith even gone for long? Sure, it's been a little bit since he's seen her, but it hasn't been that long, or surely he would have noticed something was up.

He frowns a little bit with concern as he writes the message. ]

are you alright, aerith?

i can't imagine it would have been a great sensation to find yourself here again after having been home

if anyone else had been back and returned, i don't think it'd been mentioned before.

so you really didn't remember being here at all while you went back?

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