1st Memory [Video]

[memoryboxes]

[It's midnight, but it'll take her a minute to note this. There's a drawn-out yawn, and the grunting of someone doing their usual morning stretch. And in the dark, an outline of a woman appears, in the usual Luceti New Feather garb. She touches her cheek, confused, unable to really see the book in the blue hue of night.]

That was a good rest! Ah—b-but... oh. Oh dear, did I fall asleep doing chores again? That hasn't happened in a long time... [A shiver, as she hugs herself.] It's gotten so dark... and cold, too...

[She huffs in frustration, but the nervousness is rolling off her shoulders in waves]

Kaji? Kaaaji, can you hear me?! ...Ooooh, I can't believe I wandered this far out! I don't even recognize it at all!

...Wait a moment; what am I wearing? These definitely aren't mine—

[And straight to the wings soon after; she pulls on them and immediately regrets it, wincing aloud.]

W-w-what are these strange things!? Th—

AH, they're flapping!!

[With that outburst, she promptly trips backward on her own two feet, landing her bottom right on top of her journal.]

Comments

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[memoryboxes]

And... what is 'here', if I may ask?

Re: [Video]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

It's called Luceti.

[The answers come brief and to the point.]

Re: [Video]

[memoryboxes]

Lu-ce-ti...?

[That. Doesn't sound Japanese at all.]

...Where is that in Japan?

Re: [Video]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

It seems it isn't. It's a different dimension.

Re: [Video]

[memoryboxes]

A different dimension?? What does that mean?

[All of these things she doesn't understand... it's so confusing...]

Re: [Video]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

A different world, sort of.

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[memoryboxes]

H-how can that... That's not possible—I was just at my house, just a few hours ago...

Re: [Video]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

The Malnosso brought you here. They're the ones that kidnap us to bring us here and experiment on us. They put those wings on you.

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[memoryboxes]

...Kidnap...?

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[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to have such bad news.

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[memoryboxes]

Th—

That can't be right! There must be some sort of mistake! I haven't done anything to be kidnapped! I-I don't even have much; my son and I don't make a lot of money...

Re: [Video]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's for money.

[It could be, in her case, but so many other people here don't seem to fit that.]

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[memoryboxes]

But... what reason could it possibly be? I've never done anything to anyone, not to get taken from home like this!

[Did she do something awful and can't remember it anymore? Maybe she accidentally upset someone who has a lot of bad friends in bad places—maybe they came by the tea shop and she was being her klutzy, ridiculous self.

What if they had Kaji, too? Or worse, they were going to find him and hurt him...]

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[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

They don't have a reason.

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[memoryboxes]

Don't have a reason? That doesn't make any sense...

[Her heart's pitter pattering at all of this, and she puts a hand over it as if to quell it.]

Re: [Video]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

I know. But I don't believe it's for the sake of experiments, either. Or anything else like that. Not with what they've done.

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[memoryboxes]

[Sorry Ami, but with a distressed noise she closes the book quickly, hoping it stops talking then and there. This girl tells her she's kidnapped, stuck somewhere for apparently no reason... She can't just believe this, can she? None of that's even possible. It just can't be...

Not with what they've done.

She worries even more, thinking of this.]