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[solarson]

are we gonna go to the amusement park with dad?

[thisisontherecord]

Yes, we definitely will, but have you decided if it'll be one or some or all of them yet?

[solarson]

we gotta do ALL of them!

[thisisontherecord]

Got it. One per day, or one per week?

[solarson]

what are we allowed to do?

( he knows to ask mom. )

[thisisontherecord]

We're allowed to carefully determine if there's any genuinely dangerous activities and then only engage in those to help others, and after we've verified if anything there is actively, or sporadically, affecting you or your dad's powers.

Then? Have fun. No timeline constraints there.

[solarson]

( that is a very mom answer, yep. )

can we have cotton candy and hot dogs if they have them?

[thisisontherecord]

( she has a Tendency; Jon knows her well. she does consider this for a moment. )

Yes to both. Limit the cotton candy, go wild with the hot dogs.

[solarson]

well we gotta at least try every colour of cotton candy :)

[thisisontherecord]

Great idea. One of each color for you and your dad, and I'll sample some from both of yours.

[solarson]

i hope they have red and blue! XD

[thisisontherecord]

Bet they'll even have yellow. The question is will that have a flavor other than sugar?

[solarson]

i hope it's banana or pineapple

[thisisontherecord]

Ooh, loving that pineapple thought. What if it ends up being lemon?

[solarson]

maybe damian will like it.

[thisisontherecord]

Or the red if it ends up being sour cherry?

[solarson]

you'd think he'd hate those flavors but he really wouldn't.

[thisisontherecord]

To be fair to your grumpy best friend, when I was his age, I'd also have liked those flavors. Only partly to be contrary.

[solarson]

because you were punk rock?

[thisisontherecord]

That was more of my teenage years, but sure. Similar idea. Didn't like people telling me what I would or wouldn't like before I'd tried things myself. Plus the sweet and sour combo? Often a winner.

What's your favorite flavor?

[solarson]

i don't think you can go wrong with strawberry ever. especially strawberry banana.

also i got a little mad at aurora previously and dad said i was a lot like you with my pressing questions and demanding the people here know things.

[thisisontherecord]

Great choice, strawberry very rarely is a letdown.

Hah! There's a certain circular logic in arguing with Aurora when her programming is tied up at odds to anything that helps us be proactive about this whole situation.

Wanna talk about it?

[solarson]

i was just upset with the last mission and how we couldn't help the people of mesa and then with the notes that were provided on the network with theories about everything. i wanted to know echo's reasons and said if echo needs help with trying to save peoples worlds that they need to speak up and tell us because working together almost always has better results than shouldering it all alone. but she just kept saying echo is echo when i kept asking things like that.

[thisisontherecord]

It is frustrating, and you're right. Working together has better results than shouldering everything alone.

For what it's worth, in my conversations with Aurora, I don't know that she's allowed to say anything other than Echo is Echo. Without access to the fellow bubble cities like these and the AIs running them, we can't compare 'results' across them, if there are any. Having the mathematics and the journal entries from those months back only gives us insight into a personal journal effect of what's happened from their point of view, or what they assume continues to happen, or is or isn't worth trying.

We need to keep trying whatever we can. Next time, we can see if we can drag anyone back. We may not have the current ability to save everyone, but we sure can work on saving anyone.

[solarson]

how are we supposed to even trust or believe echo when they could be nothing more than the man behind the curtain and not the great and powerful oz like they're making themselves seem?