Sort of, yeah. Less trudging from the literal depths, but yeah.

[He nods.] And there's no guarantee they would ever come back - or be the right version of themselves if they did disappear.

[He tilts his head.] I never talked to anyone who got a tattoo in Teleios, went home, and then came back to ask if they'd had the tattoo at home. That's worth considering as a possibility, though - that or the microchip. Or some of both, so you'd remember to scan the chip in the first place and not just assume you had been abducted by aliens or something.