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When: 504

[ It's a new day! Hopefully, you're feeling a little less zappy, jelly-like, and zany. And if you're not? Maybe that's the perfect excuse for ✨memories✨. ]

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...you and a bunch of other people apparently. It's... alright. If I had purchased it willingly and been an amnesiac it would have been some kind of roulette nonsense, so... [ shrugs. ] yeah.

What, uh, happened..?

Someone talking that could not be seen. And your viewers collapsing at one of your performances.

...oh. [ rubs the back of his neck. ] Ah, yeah, I... remember that one. [ unfortunately. ] A friend of mine got a little greedy... and that's the reason for the shit show at the end. It wasn't supposed to be like that.

Was that voice your friend?

Friend is a... broad term. I am not not friends with him. [ . . . ] I think our relationship is more like, ah, business partners! [ wait, that seems... worse. ]

Business partners.

[ Hmmm ]

Is the contract between the two of your fair?

[ fuck. ]

Probably. I mean, we’re both getting what we want, so… that’s fair, right?

I think that depends on what it is you want. It's very easy to convince someone to agree to something when they are under emotional duress.

…what makes you think I had some emotion whatever going on. I was fine. [ h- hahahahaha. ] And are you, like, the authority on fairness or something. I feel like it’s pretty hard to judge that kind of thing…

I did not imply whether it was one way are the other. But you say you were not under duress when the agreement was made?

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[ buddy. ]

[ stop making such a serious face at him!!! ]

Does it... matter? It wouldn't have changed the terms of the agreement any. [ probably. ] I wanted what I wanted... [ his ears flatten. ]

[ he's feeling nervous all of a sudden. ]

Of course, it matters. It means that the other party could have taken advantage of your situation to arrive at a contract that was unproportionally more beneficial to them.

And how would you even be able to tell if that was the case? I'm pretty sure we're both getting what we want out of this... I live, he eats, we both win.

[ Zhongli could discuss on one side of the contract being "I live" is already dangerously unbalanced in the first place, but---

Perhaps now is not the time. ]

Then if it is a fair contract that you are both aware of and accept, why does it affect your memory so?

I... don't know. I'm not sure what's wrong with my head. Or... my memories, I guess I should say. I keep taking them in the hopes that maybe they'll, I don't know, unfuck themselves or something... but... I don't know. [ ... ] You're smart, right? Maybe you could help me dig around and figure it out.

I could.

[ He reaches a hand out to Alala ]

Heart has the ability to feel the emotions of one another. Perhaps within your emotions and feelings we might find something buried that has the answer. Or a remnant of this being that haunts your memories.

... [ stares at his hand looking at little nervous. ] Do you really think something like that could... could work?

I do not know if it will work. But I am willing to try if you think it might help.

And whatever we see - I promise to keep it between the two of us.

...alright, so how does this work? I'm, I'm willing to give it a try.

I can open a bond between myself and you. At first you will feel my own feelings start to intermigle with your own.

Likewise, I will begin to feel whatever you are experiencing right now.

[ hesitantly offers him his hand. ] O- Okay.

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