mingle (memory)

[widenessofthesea]

Who: Idols (with and without memories)
Where: Wherever in Tokyo-F
When: Day 358

[ also, maybe some of you want some memories? ]

Comments

[forgottenmercy]

I don't, ah, really know anything about how wars are fought...

...but maybe it was going too well?

[softlyfalling]

I mean, I had the impression that it was unfortunately sloppy... but going well, in spite of that.

...maybe it was going too well. There's something I don't—

[ she shakes her head. ]

There's something that bothers me about Ascendant Crane, in retrospect, but I'm not sure what.

[forgottenmercy]

Something, ah, wrong with her...?

[softlyfalling]

...mm.

Well, she had a way about people. Knowing what I know now... maybe she was just exceptional, but I wonder.

[forgottenmercy]

...that maybe, ah, she wasn't actually mortal, at all...?

[softlyfalling]

Maybe. It's hard to tell, especially since she was a noblewoman, probably with excellent tutors in the sorts of charisma one would want to be well-spoken and commanding. I'm not sure I'll ever know for sure, though.

[forgottenmercy]

That is, ah, true...

Yet, ah, another mystery...

[softlyfalling]

There's so many of those.

[forgottenmercy]

Entirely, ah, too many...

[softlyfalling]

I don't know if there was anything going on behind the scenes, but even if there was—

...I think she meant well. It's just, well.

No changing the way it ends.

[forgottenmercy]

[agreement] ...no. There isn't...

[softlyfalling]

...I think I'm going to find out soon enough, though, what it looked like.

Do you think I'm ready to face it?

[forgottenmercy]

[nods] I, ah, do...

[softlyfalling]

...yeah.

I used to think—knowing that would break me, and yet I chased after it anyway, but—

...I think, now, I can accept it. Whenever it comes. Whatever comes.

[forgottenmercy]

I will, ah, try to be with you, when you do find it...

[softlyfalling]

...I'll probably see if I can round up some people in... I don't know, the next day or so. See if I can find it. It just feels like it's about time.

[forgottenmercy]

The, ah, right moment...?

[softlyfalling]

...mm.




Of course, I hope that now that I've said this they don't keep trying to play keep-away with me.

[forgottenmercy]

Ah, hopefully not...

[softlyfalling]

...there's always an ending, right?

[forgottenmercy]

[nods] There, ah, always is...

[softlyfalling]

...even for war, even for anguish, even for tyrants.

[ the phrasing might feel familiar. ]

[forgottenmercy]

[the phrasing does, in fact, feel familiar.]

...even for, ah, all those things. Even for those things which, ah, seem never-ending...

[softlyfalling]

Right. So—

I guess what I'm saying is that Hiroto can shut the fuck up.

[forgottenmercy]

[kind of a startled, breathy little giggle, mouth hidden behind his hand demurely]