"They could be from other worlds, or something like it." Eight chimes in, thinking about the words of where Nory came from. Though she was muddled in the illusion at the time, she noted at the time that it sounded very similar to the train... or maybe it was another planet? "I've seen several people that I had never seen before, so I agree that it would be better to assume that people are from different places if they aren't a part of the illusion."

She leaned forward, her eyebrows furrowing. "What I want to know is why go through all this trouble? What is it that the... person? AI? God?" She shook her head. "Why go through the effort of giving us us an entirely new life? Because they want us to forget?" One, she'd confess, was one she'd very readily accept as reality.