Math time shenanigans

[utopiamods]

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Location: Math class

It's a bright and sunny weekday morning. The sort of morning one should be spending sleeping in, or failing that, outside playing with friends.

Sadly for all of you, you're in this classroom studying logarithms. (Well, except for those of you who are cutting class. Good luck when finals roll around!) Right now, you've been split up into groups of three and four and should be quizzing each other on the questions from the end of the chapter in your textbook. If you're anything like ordinary high school students, though, you're probably discussing something completely different.

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[summerstars]

Nodding, Grenn looked down at the open pages for a moment, tapping her fingers on the table.

"That must be frustrating," Grenn said with a sympathetic smile, but at the same time that resparked her thoughts about memories. Some things they had forgotten were undeniably important, to who they were, or their present wherever that was, but other things...

"I noticed this morning I've forgotten the taste of oranges." That seemed completely random to her, and, while a bit annoying, technically not something she'd probably miss, in the long run. She hadn't even had that many oranges in her life.

Leaning forward, Grenn drew distractedly drew nonsenical shapes on the table.
"What if what's missing is both 'integral' and 'not integral' to us as persons? We don't know what memory we're getting back with each charm... we can't choose." Because, well, if she could, she'd get that big empty thing, Lyra's missing kisses and that stuff about flying back, cut her losses and demand to be taken home. Maybe the others weren't that important.

[myownfuture]

Reiko tapped a finger on her textbook, idly. Both integral and not integral... That could explain some of the things she'd forgotten. How to read kanji, what Sumita's face looked like... "Huh, that's odd. I noticed this morning that I can't remember how to peel oranges." She wasn't even a big fan of oranges herself. So why...

"If we could choose, it would be too easy. Some of us might remember how to stop this game..."

[summerstars]

"Exactly. At least those of you who went to... that version of Utopia. And if they haven't changed the winning conditions," Grenn said with a frown, idly skimming through the pages of her book.

"Others might even just take the memories they know are important, and ignore the rest. That would also stop people playing." Because really... You forgot things every day, had been forgetting things since you were born. The difference here was that the brain hadn't chosen, and some of the things were undeniably important.