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WHO: Thistle & visitors
WHERE: Thistle barn
WHEN: Day 16

[Thistle got shit to do! Throwing coins into the fountain! Spray-painting the side of our barn! Probably some other antics, the day is young!]

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Neither do I! And I'm pretty sure I would have? I mean, that movie is kind of unforgettable.

[that is not a compliment]

Yes, I can't imagine we forgot it easily...

[rubbing the back of his neck, expression wrinkled]

. . . did we really only forget our names when we came here?

[two memories that neither he, Loki, nor Melody recall. . . did they lose more than they thought?]

...Perhaps.

[scowls a bit]

[. . .]

Hey-- that light in your memory, the last time we had coins.

Didn't it kind of look like a movie screen?

Yes. It did.

And the city on the other side was not unlike a movie set.

[nodnods!]

So the two memories have to be related.

It's likely, though I'm not quite ready to draw that conclusion.

If that's the case, though, there's not much reason to believe we've forgotten more than one was fundamentally one event. And since that event occurred in the Metaverse, it's not unreasonable to hypothesize that there might be other reasons we've forgotten it.

[. . . hmm. . .]

I guess it's impossible to tell, with how little we know.

But if we're lucky. . .

[the fountain will be kind and only show them memories from this. . . mystery theater?? and not anything else]

[oh to be so lucky]

I suppose that's my cue.

[time for Loki to toss in his own coin]

[. . . ah]

[. . .]

[his expression is pretty unreadable, but something in it flickers when Ken says different from the rest of the Phantom Thieves]

. . . he called you out pretty easily, didn't he?

[why does everyone see right through me, fucking embarrassing]

...Koromaru-kun is a clever dog.

[he'd say you gotta work on your pleasant boy mask, but he doesn't actually want that, so]

He's got to be, if he's a Persona-user.

[i mean, mona is a persona user, but mona isn't like. . . a real cat??]

I suppose so.

[...]

There were so many Persona users there...

Where did they all come from? I thought there was a possibility there were more besides us, but--

[NOT. . . THAT MANY?]

And who was the girl in the weird dress?

I can't begin to guess.

She reminds me of. . .

[trailing off a bit]

...When I was first granted my powers, there was a pair of girls there...

[that]

[is the first time Lupin is hearing of that, but he immediately stands up straight]

-- Caroline and Justine?

Yes, I believe so.

[nodnods!]

That's what I was going to say. She reminds me of Caroline and Justine.

Maybe she's connected to the Velvet Room?

...Just how many of them are there?

[shakes his head]

I don't know.

I just know Caroline and Justine, who were really two halves of one whole-- Lavenza.

[clenching his fists]

So the world is just full of Persona users and Velvet room attendants? Where the hell have they been hiding this whole time?

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[blinking at Loki's clenched fists, before reaching out-- on instinct, more than anything else-- to rest a hand against his upper arm]

I don't know. But didn't you notice? They're different than us.

. . . none of them had Phantom Thief costumes.