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Elspeth is about to phone her parents and tell them that she made it safely to her new house when she realizes on how many levels she isn't going to be able to do that.

One: she doesn't know who her parents are. She just has a vague parent-shaped impression that they were fine probably. They don't have names or faces or habits or histories.

Two: they aren't in her phone. Nobody is in her phone. The phone is as though brand-new.

Three: Now that she is realizing the above, she is no longer sure she should be telling anybody she made it safely to her new house.

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Has her note changed?

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No, it still says what she wrote.

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She reports these findings to Peter.

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Peter has been chewing on a knuckle while reading something on his phone but looks up and nods at her report. "And I still don't know the name of our mayor or governor or president and I'm starting to think it may be a thing like the way we don't have real parents—but the office seems to take actions..."

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"Do you reckon one of us could just move in?"

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"How do you mean?"

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"I don't know how. But if nobody is currently in fact the mayor...

I don't know what you'd even do with it though."

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"I'm pretty sure there are meant to be elections, when is the next election..." Tap tap tap. "—the next election is next week. There are—where did you say you worked again?"

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"The San Myshuno Chronicle."

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"Yep, this is them alright, talking about the election next week, which very definitely was not something you found when you were looking for it five minutes ago?"

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"Yep. Nor has it come up around the water cooler. Who's running?"

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"Three different people—uh, Gordon Peralta, Julie Rymand, and Bianca Faltham—but apparently candidates have until this coming Saturday to make themselves known or withdraw from the race and then have the following week to campaign and the actual election is on the next Satuday. You know, I kind of don't want to look up state and presidential elections up because it would be such a headache to have all three of them happen to occur at the same time."

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"It would, yeah. Do you want to be mayor? I don't especially but..."

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"I absolutely do not, and given our slowed aging rate I figure we have time to decide if we want to spend a while being whatever that means in this weirdass video-game world. Especially since it seems like everything was running... fine... without the explicit existence of a mayor's office up until now."

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"What do mayors... do?"

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"From the vague stuff I read that seems to have created the office from my having read it, it seems to vary per city how exactly it works, and involve stuff like appointing department heads like police or firefighters or education, or having veto power over legislation. On the one hand I don't want to read a lot more in case more stuff comes into existence, but on the other I'm starting to wonder if we could affect what structures come to existence by, like, expecting them to exist or something while we siimgle.

"Or even worse, just by editing the damned Simpedia page."

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"...fuck."

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"Yyyyep," he says, popping the 'p'.

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Is there a Simpedia page about Elspeth herself.

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There does not seem to be.

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Peter makes an inquisitive noise.

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"I was checking if there was a page about me. There isn't." She refreshes in case.

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Still nope.

The default page for the lack of a page says that she can add a new page so long as it meets the website's notability and verifiability standards which can be found in detail by clicking this link.

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No that's fine. Is there a page about the mayor.

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Nope, not for the mayor of San Myshuno at least. Nor is there anything so useful as a page with a list of mayors per town or city or other small place that may exist in the United States of Simerica.

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