. . . this place, and the people here . . . it's all we know. We can't see out of it, because there's nothing else to see. Like being in the middle of here, and the lines were walls around us.
There . . . isn't much that connects our memories, and here. Just our message tubes, and the memories of our bodies . . . scars and marks, the way our muscles move. Just enough. And 'who' we are . . . a lot changes, as we move more into that life, and changes back again, as we learn more here . . . until we can stand in the middle bridge, and look at both.
. . . but then Claude, and Ikki-kun . . . and now Eve and Apple . . .
They have a third one, too.
[Loops out of the first spiral, drawing a third . . . and pauses before looping out of it, leaving it unconnected to the second, eyes widening.]