[a voice post, made by the network]

[cards_mistress]

[static, then the haunting voice of a young girl starts to sing]

Ring around the rosies,
a pocket full of posies,
ashes, ashes,
we all fall down.

[a pause, a soft laugh, and then -- ]

Yes, you'll all fall indeed. Just like the little girl-child

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[witch_of_memory]

All people fall down. It's natural. But everyone also gets up. They also wake up from sleep at some point. People don't belong in eternal dreams, and she will wake up eventually, even if you keep her asleep.

Even if you want her to stay dreaming to keep you company, there is always a reason for her to go back to the real world. You'll never be able to keep her. I should know.

She exists. And she'll never be forgotten or abandoned.

[cards_mistress]

Ah~? But what has happened to those who swore so vehemently that they would find her? Where have they gone? What have they been doing all this time~? It's been days and weeks and months since she disappeared, and still no sign of the girl-child, the little dream walker.

...Perhaps she herself doesn't want to come back~

[witch_of_memory]

They will find her. I may not know them, but... what I do know is that if they care for her, and she cares for them, they will come.

She may want to stay, but her heart always knows that she will never be happy in a dream.

[cards_mistress]

Oh, they'll never find her. Never in forever! *a laugh, soft and low and slightly ominous* Besides. *in a sing-song voice* You can't find someone you've forgotten all ready~!

She can't do anything either~ she's just a little fledgeling dream seer. She won't be able to take control of the dreams at all!

[witch_of_memory]

You'd be surprised, really, what the heart can lead the body to, even if the mind doesn't remember.

She can. Soon.

[cards_mistress]

*sing-song voice* Body, heart, mind~

Boring, boring, so very, very boring~