<argylecape> Okay, fair.

<argylecape> What I meant was it's unlikely you're /still/ forgetting things

<argylecape> Except the shapeshifting I guess but that's weirdly specific?

<argylecape> Because if that was happening you'd notice one way or another.

<argylecape> But it still might be a big deal even if you're not.

<GenderBender> I mean it's not impossible I'm still forgetting other things if they're things I won't talk about or other people wouldn't mention

<GenderBender> Anyway, I guess I can just ask you about stuff I doubt.

<argylecape> This kind of stuff isn't smart enough to stick to things you wouldn't ever talk about, though.

<argylecape> But yeah, I'll keep notes and stuff.

The elevator that was parked in the Sideways floor is called away, and in a mind-bending twist of geometry the whole floor disappears.

<argylecape> And I just lost the Sideways floor, somebody called the elevator.

<GenderBender> There wasn't anything interesting happening there, though, was there? I think it's just the waiting game now.

<argylecape> Yup.

<GenderBender> By the way I looked up Picasso and Sideways incident statistics

<GenderBender> They are actually as common as death by car crashes

<GenderBender> But those are twice as common here as on Earth

<GenderBender> Well, superhero-less Earth.

<argylecape> Wow

<argylecape> That's a lot

<argylecape> Unless we have a lot more with capes, I guess, but I don't think we would.

<GenderBender> I don't know how capes would affect it.

<GenderBender> Also, the City is larger than your New York, and has all those zigs and zags

<GenderBender> Not to mention Pileup Intersection

<argylecape> Yeah, and I never actually counted

<argylecape> But minor accidents are super common, that was hard to get used to when I moved to New York

<argylecape> Like, more than hourly

<argylecape> More serious ones are much less common but I'd still hear a few a day before I got the hang of ignoring them well enough.

<argylecape> You said /death/ by car crash, though, those aren't so common. Still enough to worry about - I think one every few weeks in my range in NYC, so like one every week or two inside that here? On average.

<GenderBender> Yeah, and that's also about how often someone goes poof into the Sideways as far as we know.

<argylecape> No wonder people don't go out much.

<GenderBender> To be fair those are concentrated in the edges of the City or farther-away places like the Outlands

<GenderBender> It practically never happens in the Suburbs and the more central areas of the City only really see disappearances like that every few months, and it's usually in new buildings.

<argylecape> That's good I guess. That it's at least a little predictable.

<GenderBender> You do have to look, though.

<GenderBender> Most people don't bother to, and the media is less than clear on this fact, you have to look it up.

<argylecape> Mmhmm.

<argylecape> I need a break, talk to you later?

<GenderBender> Sure, later!

Extroverts: yikes. She goes back to working her way through the surrounding area, with frequent checks of the DoS building.

After a couple of hours, the Sideways floor appears again as Dougal calls the elevator from there.

This gets her attention promptly.

He seems to be humming tunelessly to himself, and promptly returns to his office and starts typing something into his computer after making himself comfortable.

She focuses intently, trying to associate the sounds of the keys with individual letters. It's slow going; there's no way she'll be able to keep up with anything like a normal typing speed today, though she might manage to catch an unusual short word or two if they're repeated often enough.

There aren't any unusual words that seem to be repeated very often. In fact he sounds just like you'd expect him to sound if he were a normal head of the Department of Safety with no connections to Bedlam at all. Sorta. Modulo the longer words she can't really make out, yet.

About as expected. She keeps it up anyway.