005 ⌥ TEXT; ANONYMOUS [god, i feel like i'm spamming]

[femshep]

If anyone's got a minute to spare, I was wondering if you'd tell me about wherever it is you come from.

The world or worlds, the level of technology, the political hierarchy, your culture and society and how it functions, etc.

[But a few minutes later, a second part is tacked on.]

Forget it. Forget all of that. Don't worry about getting technical.

Just tell me what it was like for you. Your ship or city. Your job. Your friends or family.

If it's not a problem.

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[audio - private]

[femshep]

[She knows. They talked about this. And Chell's not military, so Shepard doesn't feel like the anonymous is quite as important.

So she switches to audio.]

It's me.

[audio - private]

[waspromisedcake]

[She'll switch too.]

Shepard.

[That's her way of greeting. Not a 'hi,' or 'how've you been.']

[audio - private]

[femshep]

Chell. [A return-greeting in the same fashion.

Then after a pause, she's asking:]

You lived there your whole life?

[audio - private]

[waspromisedcake]

No. There was a time before, but I can't remember it.

[audio - private]

[femshep]

Because of the testing?

[audio - private]

[waspromisedcake]

No, because of the stasis.

[She wasn't going to just accept Wheatley's word about the stasis process leaving her brain damaged, but there really was no other explanation for why her life before Aperture was a near complete blank. Obviously she knew things. She could speak and read, knew basic math, knew plenty of things, really. Hadn't she learned all that as a child?]

[audio - private]

[femshep]

Did it block your memory or erase it? Do you know?

[audio - private]

[waspromisedcake]

[She hesitates before answering.]

Not sure. I know things that I don't think I learned in the facility.

[audio - private]

[femshep]

[A thoughtful pause.]

If you had a chance to remember, would you want to?

[audio - private]

[waspromisedcake]

Not sure.

[On the one hand, those were her memories and she had a right to them. On the other, if she remembered everything, it would just make her angry at all she had lost.]

Remembering would be good and bad at the same time. So I don't know.

[audio - private]

[femshep]

[She can understand that.]

That's fair enough.

[audio - private]

[waspromisedcake]

Yeah, guess so.