You don't know that it's arbitrary. Perhaps I'm onto something! Once you hit 52, you've lost all capacity for things like intimacy, so you don't have value anymore! That's why they let you leave!
Supposedly, anyway. The proprietress said she could've gone home if she wished for it, but I never got around to asking if she knows anyone who really did leave.
And yep, she said that thing about value in one of Victoria's journal entries. That's what got me interested in the first place. I'm just not sure why they'd bother to kidnap unimportant people with low "value" in the first place.
I also wonder if the ones who disappeared are more like that servant. If they're getting rid of the people who aren't fated to do great things, and keeping the ones who are destined. But when I asked about the rumor that people who disappear get turned into statues, she said "What happens to a sponge when you've wrung out in the water and left it in the sun to dry? People are the same."
So, with that in mind, maybe it's the ones with low "energy" who vanish. That would line up with what you said before. Except there's one problem with that theory, which is that I'm still here! Any idea why that might be? Do you think they just like seeing my face?
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Supposedly, anyway. The proprietress said she could've gone home if she wished for it, but I never got around to asking if she knows anyone who really did leave.
And yep, she said that thing about value in one of Victoria's journal entries. That's what got me interested in the first place. I'm just not sure why they'd bother to kidnap unimportant people with low "value" in the first place.
I also wonder if the ones who disappeared are more like that servant. If they're getting rid of the people who aren't fated to do great things, and keeping the ones who are destined. But when I asked about the rumor that people who disappear get turned into statues, she said "What happens to a sponge when you've wrung out in the water and left it in the sun to dry? People are the same."
So, with that in mind, maybe it's the ones with low "energy" who vanish. That would line up with what you said before. Except there's one problem with that theory, which is that I'm still here! Any idea why that might be? Do you think they just like seeing my face?