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[dreamermoa]

[Have the first-person POV of coming into inventory. Guess who's back?]

I'm back in inventory now. Thank you for watching over it for me, Giovanni.

[Here follows her shuffling around and settling herself on her nest of blankets and pillows and soft things. Now that she's ready to rule over her domain again...]

I think it's long past time that we had one of these. I know Sakon and Patchouli have information posts, so...here's mine.

...I want someone to copy it down on paper. Write it in - English, Japanese, German, any language you know. So if I ever leave...you'll still have it.

[She pauses, gazing at the feed. She's obviously been thinking about this a lot.]

In Orokos, we had the leftovers of an age that no one remembered. We called the people who lived back then the Faded, and we thought that their technology was amazing. No one understood it, but it was so beautiful that we thought the Faded must have had perfect lives. If we had been able to understand their wonders, our lives would be so much better.

[pause.]

They had amazing things. But they had problems as well. Lessons they learned and that we had forgotten, or that we could have learned from their mistakes. But everything had been lost to the Fade, and after it, we started to do the same things as they did. The same mistakes were happening again.

I don't want that to happen to us.

[Her point finished, she reaches over and shuts off the feed.]

Comments

[not-riku-thx.livejournal.com]

You're right...it's probably safer we put our memories down. That's why we have the wall at Gohl...

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

The wall...? Do you all write your names on it?

[not-riku-thx.livejournal.com]

Sort of like that. Pictures, other things too, of people who've gone away.

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

Really?

[...]

Do you have anything from Ness?

[not-riku-thx.livejournal.com]

We have his name up, with a picture of his hat that Namine made, his 'drum set' of plastic buckets from Float is still in the corner...

[witchoftheweek.livejournal.com]

Ah, impressive. May I link it to mine?

...What was the Fade?

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Patchouli. And sure. I'll link yours too.

It was...the time when the Faded disappeared. I guess they weren't technically "Faded" til then, but we still called them that.

[witchoftheweek.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Are there any details, or was it lost to time?

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

It was...

[Well....she knows some of what happened. Or at least what they said happened. But no one else on their world did. Except for Rail.]

...no, it was mostly just lost.

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[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome, amica Moa.

[He calls from an adjoining room, revealing himself two seconds later. He pauses half way in the side doorway, arms crossing over his chest and leaning against the threshold, peering at her carefully.]

How are you? Feeling much better, I hope?

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[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

[She's snuggled down into her nest in the corner, like...a thing that snuggles into nests a lot. (Chat offers "like a baby to it's...mother" and "like cuddling up to...a...giant teddie idk".) She's skinny and pale, but that's normal for her, and she gives him a little smile.]

Ahuh. I am. [for a moment, she looks across the room to where Sorata had been staying...] But I think I'm going to take that stuff down.

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[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

[He'll have to get used to the skinny and paleness--for now he frowns at it thoughtlessly when he notices it, but otherwise he normal and content. He does return the smile afterward once he receives one from her.]

That is very good; I am glad. [He glances towards the stuff in discussion.] I will gladly help you with that if you would like...

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[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

[She looks at it again too.]

That'd be nice. [In explanation:] It was Sorata's, before he left.

[wears-a-torc.livejournal.com]

[Oh, hey it's Minato's new kid...And then after reading the info post.]

You've...been here a long time haven't you.

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

[ohi knuckles.]

April eighteenth is my anniversary....my second one.

[wears-a-torc.livejournal.com]

[Damn....that's even longer than he thought.]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

[Sometimes she says "it's okay" when people say that to her. Sometimes she just cries. She's not sure which one to do right now.]

Thanks.

[That's sort of in the middle, isn't it?]

You're Knuckles, right?

[foxtamer.livejournal.com]

I've written it down in both Japanese and English, Moa.

... Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. From world to world, some things are always the same.

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

Thanks....[dad.]

...yeah. And they...all of the things that were repeating were horrible. Their "reset" didn't work.

[foxtamer.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. [... I heard that.]

[Minato sighs softly and shakes his head.] ... It isn't surprising, really... but what do you mean by "reset"?

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

[YOU HEARD NOTHINGGGGGG]

I....

[She's hesitates. Turns it on Private to him. For some reason it seems a little like a secret.]

Before I came here, I...met one of them. The Faded. - sort of. It was more of a...piece of him that he left behind, on a - on something kind of like the televisions. Anyway, he said that...their society had become...stagnant. And so they [...] built the Chaos Engine, which made the probability storms.

[....that was a little confusing, wasn't it.]

Which were what made us lose all that knowledge that they had. And it...pretty much made life miserable.

[boy-fatality.livejournal.com]

People are often doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

However, this information is very useful.

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

...do you think anything will get better, Sakon?

[boy-fatality.livejournal.com]

I would like that to be the case.

[dreamermoa.livejournal.com]

Me too.