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[It's not as though Kayneth is unfamiliar with what happens when someone disappears. Tokiomi's disappearance was... regrettable, but it wasn't anything like what was going on now. He couldn't count the amount of times he'd entered Sola's number into his PokeGear in the hopes that there had been some mistake, only to receive the same message over and over.

"Number not found." The very words were starting to get to him by this point

Perhaps if he hadn't slipped back into deliriousness he would have given up more quickly-or if he'd gotten an explanation beforehand, or if the situation were in any way different from how it was now.

Why was this happening? He couldn't simply chalk the whole situation up to being some sort of magic-induced hallucination anymore, as much as he wanted to. The week or so of clarity had broken him out of that mindset, so really, there was one conclusion to be drawn here.

He'd essentially been dumped out of a world that had only wanted him to succeed and into one that wanted nothing more than to see him suffer.

And really, there was nothing he could do about it except wait.

...though, really, getting a good read on exactly how grim his prospects were was probably a good idea.]

If someone disappears from this world, how likely is it that they will return? I've been informed that it's entirely possible that they will either remember their time here or they will have no recollection of it, as well. How many cases are there of the former versus the latter?

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I haven't been here all that long, but I haven't seen anyone return. I don't know whether more people come back with their memories or without, but either way it would be good to see them again, right?

I'm sorry you've lost someone. But the only thing you can really do is try to move on.

[Oh look, someone learned a thing or two from his own breakdown over the network!]

Well, yes, of course. I'm quite certain that most people that this has happened to wouldn't care either way so long as whoever left returned at some point. This is purely out of scientific curiosity, of course.

[well, at least he has to make an attempt at pretending he isn't just bleeding emotions all over the network...]

Right, so all this is hypothetical?

[Uh huh. Sure.]

Yes. Completely hypothetical.

Right! So in this "hypothetical" situation of yours, what would you do if you lost someone really close to you? Would you worry about them, what they're going back to and all that? Or would you be more worried about yourself and how you're going to fare without them here?

[Surprisingly enough this isn't random antagonizing, this is genuine curiosity!]

I would know what they're going back to, wouldn't I? Given the bizarre way time functions here, it isn't as though I'm gone back home. There isn't much of a reason to worry about that at all.

[...not to say that he isn't doing it anyway, of course, but...]