#obviously alena wasnt the most /aware/ when she asked the question

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@a-mag-a-day im biased towards the Lonely as an entity and I don't think this is an intentional Thing as there's so much overlap between entities

but I think it's interesting that MAG 15 involves a character who is looking to feel connected to a person who doesn't feel the same, ie Alena's comment on choosing her sister to be stuck with while Laura secretly hates the idea. and this isn't an unnatural response, especially as Laura sees cave diving as intensely personal, and about being alone, on top of their living situation being more of a necessity than a choice

Alena asks her how lost she is, though

it's a word that pops up in several Lonely statements, including the very first when Naomi's pastor worries of her getting "lost" and in MAG 159 where Jon says "I thought you were lost". the Lonely has a very strong throughline of other people being a point of reference both emotionally and phyiscally, and while it can refer to being abandoned by a higher power the word Forsaken in my mind is strongly associated with abandonment by other people

getting lost in a neighborhood of personality-less houses, getting lost in a crowd, getting lost in a cave

and I wonder what Alena thought as she asked her sister how lost she was, before Laura begged for her to be taken away