Memory Mingle

[sunflowering]

Who: Anyone who wants memories! Anyone who wants to witness memories!!
Where: EVERYWHERE~~
When: Whenever is best

[ Go forth and remember things!! This is for SPARTA MEMORIESSS!!!! ]

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[we_meet_again]

I'm glad, then. That you got out of it.

How long were you a soldier? Do you remember?

[worthathousand]

[ she shakes her head ]

These two were only my second and third memories; I've been... much laxer that I should have been in recovering them.

I know there were a good number of years between my first memory, when I was a youth, and these. [ never mind how young she looked in those, and looks now ]

[we_meet_again]

In the second one... those are your children?

[worthathousand]

[ she smiles, her posture easing ] Yes, all four.
Miwa, Hanae, and Fujiko—my three daughters.

[ a sigh ] Getting to learn my son's name I suppose would have made things too easy.

[we_meet_again]

Hopefully in another memory.

This one seemed like a nice one, though. Home. A family.

[worthathousand]

Yes. [ the word comes out almost like another sigh ]

A place of my own. After everything—whatever it was that "everything" meant.
Though... [ smile fading a bit ] ...there was a loneliness to it too. Missing someone as well.

[we_meet_again]

Could you tell who it was? Who you were missing...?

[worthathousand]

Ah—

[ a pause; she glances away; worries her lower lip a moment ]

...I think she... may have been my wife.

[we_meet_again]

Ah. I'm sorry... someone like that...

I imagine it must have very hard to not have them with you.

this is very old, i'm sorry

[worthathousand]

It was.

It helped, some, to remind myself: how much she would have loved what we made together. The farm, our family.
I think... I missed her every day.