[He may not understand, but she's entirely too busy being thoroughly offended by even the possibility of memory alteration for reasons she's not entirely sure she wants to explore to fret over that. The very idea makes her skin crawl, and not just because that's a domain she's never known anyone else to intrude upon before. It's bad enough that she was able to do that kind of thing - but a thousand times worse that someone else, someone with almost certainly nefarious ends, could possibly do it unchecked-- she's practically muttering to herself.]
But if they were gone at the same time....
[Her head jerks back up at his question, a pair of quick blinks signaling her return from her own considerations. Her eyes move away again almost immediately, her expression drawing into something that only manages not to be a grimace because her lips press too tightly together.]
Not easily. [She looks awfully grim about it. Oh, she has no intention of going into the details,] ... But it's not impossible. [If you happen to be, say, a witch with power over memories. Still - she knows she hasn't been doing it, so either that means there might be someone else who can do the same (worst possible outcome) or... come to think of it,] Although I suppose - if they really can just change code, that might make the process much simpler. Besides, they fabricate all kinds of things, don't they? That ViViD level looked pretty real.
[... Which seems to ease some of the tension out of her shoulders, even though she's. You know. Not happy about the possibility that they can just change code instead of using unique magic, either. (Is that worse? It's probably worse, even though it doesn't feel worse.) Ah, but it's all conjecture to begin with - perhaps the memories really are genuine. It's just that her instinct, unfortunately, is to think along the lines that she's used to, and those are the sort that involve memory manipulation more commonly than time travel or the recovery of data from some point in the distant past. She'll get there eventually, but her first thoughts on the matter are quite unpleasant ones. ]
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But if they were gone at the same time....
[Her head jerks back up at his question, a pair of quick blinks signaling her return from her own considerations. Her eyes move away again almost immediately, her expression drawing into something that only manages not to be a grimace because her lips press too tightly together.]
Not easily. [She looks awfully grim about it. Oh, she has no intention of going into the details,] ... But it's not impossible. [If you happen to be, say, a witch with power over memories. Still - she knows she hasn't been doing it, so either that means there might be someone else who can do the same (worst possible outcome) or... come to think of it,] Although I suppose - if they really can just change code, that might make the process much simpler. Besides, they fabricate all kinds of things, don't they? That ViViD level looked pretty real.
[... Which seems to ease some of the tension out of her shoulders, even though she's. You know. Not happy about the possibility that they can just change code instead of using unique magic, either. (Is that worse? It's probably worse, even though it doesn't feel worse.) Ah, but it's all conjecture to begin with - perhaps the memories really are genuine. It's just that her instinct, unfortunately, is to think along the lines that she's used to, and those are the sort that involve memory manipulation more commonly than time travel or the recovery of data from some point in the distant past. She'll get there eventually, but her first thoughts on the matter are quite unpleasant ones. ]