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[vrdantwind]

"Hey, this is Claude! Pretty sure I'm doing this correctly. You can leave me a message here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Talk to you soon~."

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[bestswordmaster]

[Felix frowns in light concentration as he listens to Claude's thoughts.]

Hm. You're right, that makes more sense. But in that case, don't we have bonds that connect us to the dead as well? Then the likelihood of someone like...like my father showing up seems...higher.

[He nods at Claude's final assessment.]

Mm. There's no way to know, I suppose. And I know that means I shouldn't worry about it, since there's nothing to figure out or to do about it.

[But he shrugs. He's worrying about it anyway, much to his annoyance.]

I have no idea how I'm supposed to prepare myself for something like that. Even if the chances aren't high, they still exist.

[vrdantwind]

I suppose that's one thing my theory does cover a little better, then. If this place can pull people who are dead in, well...we should be overwhelmed. [Claude waves a hand vaguely.] I mean, the number of people who are currently alive in any world is barely a drop in the bucket compared to all those who've ever died. So if this place really just pulled people in completely at random, from any time period - including after a person's death - then not only would it be wildly unlikely for any of us to have any connection to each other, but the ratio of people who've died to those who are still alive should be massively in favor of the dead. But that's not the case at all.

So whatever is behind our being brought here, it's not entirely random at all. There's a bias toward the living, and a bias towards people who have some connection to each other. It seems like ideally both would be present, but sometimes only one or the other will do. And maybe, rarely, there are complete exceptions - someone dead in their own time with no connection to anyone here.

That's a lot of words and theorizing just to acknowledge that you're probably right, but...you're also right about it probably not being too likely. Not one of us has met a dead person from our pasts here yet that I know of, and that's a lot of time and a lot of chances spread out across a pretty decent number of people. It's definitely not common.

[Claude meets his gaze briefly.] The question is, are you hoping to see him here, or are you hoping to avoid that?