Quinn is actually quite annoyed by this anomaly. She usually doesn't bother to feel annoyed by anomalies, she's been in this line of work for over two decades now, but she ran into this one entirely by accident, and it caused her to lose the memory of her anniversary dinner the other night because it upset U-4987. She has little enough time with her husband without having her memories of it stolen from her.

She didn't figure that out immediately, though. She was chasing down a report of a suspected anomaly in the area, and when it was time to feed Sunshine, she dipped into a grocery store to chat with random people about nothing at all. And it did feel fed, at the time, and of course she doesn't remember what memory she fed it. The problem is that whatever it was didn't actually sate it, and it lost the memory, and then ate something else that it was sure it could retain. And it wasn't until Adam mentioned the dinner two days later that she realized she forgot, and that's one of the most irritating ways to lose a memory. She and Adam had a recreation of the dinner for her sake, but now it feels personal.

Now, what does she know about this anomaly? It at least passes for human, probably. The feeling she had as she walked out of the grocery store was what she had been expecting: having just lost a memory that she'd expected to lose, after deciding to go inside and talk to a human, so unless it modified her memory after the fact (which it could've), she acted in accordance with her plans. It seemed localised enough, and she hasn't had any other unaccounted-for similar episodes of lost memory (that she noticed) since. It hasn't erased the memory of the grocery store itself, or really anything other than the supposed interaction she'd already meant to forget. Its behavior is entirely unrelated to that of the reported anomaly. It's resistant to Quinn's regular class W mnestics. And that's about it.

So now she's gotta review the actual evidence. She got the security footage from around the time she visited, and she has an operative on the same mnestic she's on watching it.

Quinn is actually quite annoyed by this anomaly. She usually doesn't bother to feel annoyed by anomalies, she's been in this line of work for almost two decades now, but she ran into this one entirely by accident, and it caused her to lose the memory of her anniversary dinner the other night because it upset U-4987. She has little enough time with her husband without having her memories of it stolen from her.

She didn't figure that out immediately, though. She was chasing down a report of a suspected anomaly in the area, and when it was time to feed Sunshine, she dipped into a grocery store to chat with random people about nothing at all. And it did feel fed, at the time, and of course she doesn't remember what memory she fed it. The problem is that whatever it was didn't actually sate it, and it lost the memory, and then ate something else that it was sure it could retain. And it wasn't until Adam mentioned the dinner two days later that she realized she forgot, and that's one of the most irritating ways to lose a memory. She and Adam had a recreation of the dinner for her sake, but now it feels personal.

Now, what does she know about this anomaly? It at least passes for human, probably. The feeling she had as she walked out of the grocery store was what she had been expecting: having just lost a memory that she'd expected to lose, after deciding to go inside and talk to a human, so unless it modified her memory after the fact (which it could've), she acted in accordance with her plans. It seemed localised enough, and she hasn't had any other unaccounted-for similar episodes of lost memory (that she noticed) since. It hasn't erased the memory of the grocery store itself, or really anything other than the supposed interaction she'd already meant to forget. Its behavior is entirely unrelated to that of the reported anomaly. It's resistant to Quinn's regular class W mnestics. And that's about it.

So now she's gotta review the actual evidence. She got the security footage from around the time she visited, and she has an operative on the same mnestic she's on watching it.