33rd Memory [Video]

[memoryboxes]

[Sayo has been readjusting to... y'know, being here again, even though she feels as though she'd never left. That was pretty interesting. Raine had been very careful and helpful with her wording, but it's still a lot to wrap her head around, and she can't help but feel a number of things. Relief, maybe. Disappointment that she'd left people behind. Confusion at the change in her life, which was so centered on routine... She bites her lip and tries to remember how to use the journal, because even though she hasn't really lost memory of Luceti, she is still infected with a mushi that eats her memories. So. It's best that she make this post.]

Hello! You may remember me... if you were here a long time ago. My name is Sayo, and... I used to be a waitress here! And I'm hoping that it would be okay to be one again at the Seventh Heaven again, if that's alright... I know my notes probably aren't hanging up everywhere anymore, but I'm sure I can re-learn it! I'll give it my best shot!

[Hmmm. She tucks a lock of hair behind her ear. She still has a scar behind it; she still remembers what her husband has done; she's just... forgotten some of the other things.]

I'm also sorry if I don't recognize you. I have a memory... um, problem, where I lose a lot of important memories from day to day. That said — i-if anyone has anything I should know about this place, I would love to hear it, because I'm not sure how much I remember outside of a few faces and my old job here.

[A-ahaha... ha... She's trying to be light about it, okay.]

Like — [She hesitates, frowning and leaning in to speak more quietly, a little more anxious.] What are these things on my back?

[THEY ARE JUST HERE ON MY BACK AND THEY TWITCH A LOT AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE? ARE THEY JACKED UP ARMS? HAVE WE ALWAYS HAD JACKED UP SECONDARY ARMS COVERED IN WEIRD HAIR???]

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[video]

[herobydefault]

[Memory problems, huh? Even worse than his. Automatic sympathy here.]

They're wings. They show up on everybody who comes here. They're harmless.

[video]

[memoryboxes]

Harmless... Well, that's good. But what do they do?

[video]

[herobydefault]

Uh, nothing. They just sit there and get in the way. [very unhelpful] Hurts like hell if you bang them against something though, so be careful.

[video]

[memoryboxes]

Oh. I would think it would hurt! They seem to be a part of my body...

I just wish I could remember them. I suppose I must have had them the last time I was here...

[Voice]

[goldenglasses]

Hey! Do you remember me at all? It's alright if you don't! But what about a guy with a red coat? Huh? Remember?

[Voice]

[memoryboxes]

........ I remember...

[She eyeballs his hair in the little picture]

Um...




Nash?

Re: [Voice]

[goldenglasses]

[Vash laughs, not at all insulted or upset that she didn't get his name right. In fact, he's excited she even got it that close.] So close! But it's Vash! Don't worry! I'm sure you'll do better at remembering me in no time! I work at Seventh Heaven now!

Ah, although I haven't been working the last few days. I've been a bit busy. [He's had a kid he's been trying to catch up the last two years with. That and before a couple days ago he didn't really have a baby sitter at all.]

[Voice]

[memoryboxes]

You do?? Congratulations! I'd be happy to work with you, Vash-san!

[AND FEEL HORRIBLE THAT SHE MISSPOKE YOUR NAME

BUT HEY SMALL THINGS]

You've been busy? It's better to be busy than sitting restless, right?

[Video]

[theideaguy]

So, you remember your name. And you remember the name of the restaurant. And you remember the job that you used to have there. But you don't remember what wings are?

[Video]

[memoryboxes]

No, I don't! Are they for sleeping on? They're awfully soft...

[Video]

[theideaguy]

Er... have you ever seen birds? With wings? Sleeping on them?

[Video]

[memoryboxes]

Ah, birds! Yes!

What are birds?

Video

[haveabiscuit]

[McGonagall hasn't been here long enough to recognize her.]

Wings. Be careful, damage to them can be quite dangerous.

Have you run afoul of some sort of memory modification?

[Memory charms are such tricky things]

Video

[memoryboxes]

D-dangerous? How dangerous?

[No but wait; memory modification?]

I... Well, it's not so much that as my memory is eaten.

Re: Video

[haveabiscuit]

Large chunks are missing?

[It sounds like a memory charm to her]

Pulling feathers off is painful, and losing the wings is fatal.

Video

[memoryboxes]

I see... [She smiles awkwardly at the mention of the way her mind works. Well...] Something like that. It's a little unusual to most people here, but... It's a creature in my mind, who's diet is eating those memories. Each night I lose memories I'd made the day before. It's been better here, but...

[ Voice ]

[rashness]

'Ey! Ey! If you need notes in Seventh Heaven, we could probably put more of them up, right?!

[ MORE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO WORK THERE...

Thank everything ]

[ Voice ]

[memoryboxes]

You would? We could put more notes up?

I would love to help you, Rin-san! I miss working already.

[She is a woman of consistently. AND SHE REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.]

[ Voice ]

[rashness]

Oh yeah, of course we cou--- ld! Hey! You remember me!

[Video]

[throughthedark]

[Aw, Sayo.

You happen to be in good company, this time. Pretty much nobody has recognized Giles so far without him out and out admitting it.

The video shows him kicking back in his room, on a chair that's been newly acquired so as to let his feet touch the floor.]

I'm afraid I'm a bit, um, behind on recent events myself. What have you learned so far? [Maybe he can fill in the gaps on the basics, at least.

After a thoughtful pause, Giles adds:] We did know one another, um, before. More or less in passing. But I wouldn't expect you to recognize me in any case. I look rather different now.

[Video]

[memoryboxes]

I've learned... well, I've probably learned more than I can remember now, but I know that I was gone for longer than I had thought. For a very long time. But now a lot of us have returned, all at once...

[Very odd.]

... We did?

[No, she certainly doesn't recognize him. How worrisome...]

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[throughthedark]

We all were. [Years. Giles still boggles at it a little, honestly. It feels like hours, even setting aside the strangeness of his resurrection.] I imagine we all have a great deal to catch up on. Especially granted that more or less all the new arrivals seem to have been here before...that has to mean something...

[At which point Giles starts slightly, to realize that he'd almost gone off on a tangent again. It's a matter that's been taking up a lot of his attention these past few days.] A-Anyway. Um, we did, but I was a good deal, um...taller, and older, then.

It doesn't matter. My name is Giles. It's, ah, very nice to meet you again, Sayo.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

[... Robert doesn't have a memory problem. In fact... he recognizes this particular face almost right away.]

... Ah... S-Sayo... it has been s-some time... [More time than he cares to imagine, even.]

Do you... remember me...?

[He smiles awkwardly, though she can't see it.]

[Voice]

[memoryboxes]

Ah — Robert, yes?

[She hadn't lost any time between her departure and now; it's so very strange, but she supposes it's also very beneficial.]

I remember... You're a very smart young man, and you often showed me interesting things. [She laughs softly, apologetic.] I don't know if I remember much of it, though.

[Voice]

[semper_cogitans]

[Relief, palpable, flows through him at this. There may be a lot of uncertainties, but... he can work with those.]

I... have n-no issue with re-explaining any... necessary i-information, Sayo. [He smiles; it carries through his voice.] Do you still need... further i-instruction as to your wings...?

[He'll have to remember to tone his explanations back. Maybe he can even help her with writing memory notes. Or something...]