1 ✰ RETURNING TO PARADISA

[triumph]

[Someone just woke up a little agitated.]

What the heck, Paradisa! I don't even know where to start, to be honest!

Does this mean we don't actually get to go home? I spent two and a half –– almost THREE –– years believing that after dealing with this place, we'd go home, with no memories, and go on with our lives –– but now I'm being told that we don't?

I have more memories from home, so I went home, but nobody mentioned the part where you end up stuck in an alternate universe with alternate memories and legitimately believe you've always lived there. I've experienced some pretty weird stuff, but this is the most screwed up dissonance ever!

Someone tell me they have some kind of answer to this. Agh!

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[secondchances]

[Ruh roh.]

Welcome back?

[triumph]

[SCOOBY....]

Thanks! And actually, thank you so much for being the most sense-making part of this whole thing, because Conner didn't do a great job of...

Wait a minute, Conner's here. Who else is here? I'm sorry, my mind is going a mile a minute.

[secondchances]

That's a first.

[And we'll say this is after someone's risen from the dead.] Well, Tim just came back...

[midget]

And you don't get to just forget those alternate memories, either.

Consider them Paradisa's "welcome back" present.

[triumph]

You're telling me. It doesn't even feel linear, it feels like I have conflicting memories happening at the same time. I'm giving myself a week before I go all Joker on everyone.

Did this happen to you, too...?

[midget]

It did.

Still think of myself as a pokémon trainer sometimes. Have to remind myself the people I met there aren't really trainers, too.

[seventeenth]

'The castle is an asshole'?

I dunno, that's the only answer I've ever come up with.

[triumph]

I think you're spot-on, at any rate.

And you sound completely unfamiliar. I should be welcoming you to Paradisa, stranger.

[seventeenth]

Probably. I've only been here a couple month.

[ruined_jaw]

Welcome to the club.

I'm having troubles sorting it all out, too.

[triumph]

That's rough. How many of us are there?

[Written]

[detectivegenius]

Cassie...

[dictated]

[triumph]

[Immediately concerned]

Tim?

[selfdom]

Told you so.

[triumph]

[She can't help but laugh]

Oh Hera, Conner, I'm so sorry if I made you worry or freak out or anything. I could never lose my memories of you guys! I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

Where are you? I want to see you!

Filtered to Cassandra

[inmylight_commander]

I think I owe you guys an apology.

Kat

[triumph]

Oh, boy. I think we all owe each other an apology...

Should we get you, me, and the others together for lunch or something? [Awkwaaaaaaard...]

[waterproofed]

Um... No answers, sorry. Just more weirdness.

Are you remembering all of it or is it still coming back?

[triumph]

I don't know, I'll let you know in a few days, haha. Bit hard to tell if I have it all if I can't remember bits, you know?

How have you been, Percy?

[ruin_mania]

Well, at least you went home for a time.

[triumph]

Small gifts, huh?

[luthored]

Cassie?

[triumph]

Lana? [Surprised] Heyyy!

[loisfuckinglane]

You too, huh?

Seems to be a thing going around...

[triumph]

Hey, Ms. Lane! Haven't seen you in a while. And yeah, me too. Our universes get their fingers in everything.