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[dreams_memory]

[A gasp and a collapse.]

Sakura?!

P-Piyomon-san....

Sakura, what's wrong?! Are you okay? Are yo-you...your forehead....

Piyomon-san, I...I can remember everything...she's gone...

She is...? Oh, Sakura! That's great news! That's wonderful an-why are you crying?!I just...I remembered and....oh Hay Lin-chan....no, no, no..... [And then there is a

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[glompwitch]

Well, that's a route of research I won't need anymore...

[dreams_memory]

SAKURA ISN'T RESEARCH!

Stupid D-comm, always coming on at bad times.

[glompwitch]

... What? I was trying to research a way to break encoding, jeeze.

[dreams_memory]

...oh. Never mind then.

[Back to comforting the crying tamer.]

[glompwitch]

... I know this is going to sound completely and utterly evil of me, but... If you think it would help, I'm capable of mental manipulations and might be able to help her get past everything...

[dreams_memory]

...if it makes her fee-

No. I won't...I won't be...I won't forget her again....

Sakura...

No thank you. [Bites back a sob.] I want to keep my mind as is...

[glompwitch]

I completely respect that, dear, but at the same time... Right now, you're literally going through every negative emotion that was suppressed under Daemon's influence at once. The results... Normally, at least, could take a long, long time to get past.

The best thing for your long-term mental health may actually be to let someone capable of the task in to help ameliorate things.

[dreams_memory]

No.

No, I refuse to...to do anything like that...I can't forget these feelings.

These are the feelings between me and those I care about! I refuse to forget them ever again!

[glompwitch]

That isn't at all what I mean, dear.

To erase another's memories, or even try and suppress them... There's very personal reasons I could never do that to anyone. Ever.

I... I would suggest trying to get with any friends you can, as soon as you can. If you do not desire more extreme therapeutic solutions, at the very least, let them help you.

[dreams_memory]

To even alter them...

There are too many memories like that...I need to remember them as they are...

I'll make sure she's not alone.

[glompwitch]

No. I couldn't alter another's memories either. Ever.

May you be well, Sakura... Luna would love to see you, by the way...

[dreams_memory]

Whatever it is...whatever it is you offered, I don't want it to change. This pain is all I can offer in apology to Hay Lin-chan....

I will see her as soon as I can...

[glompwitch]

... To take pain as if it were apology... That's abusing yourself. That's no apology at all. Not even an attempt at one.

Regain your strength, Sakura. If you let yourself lose that, then you risk becoming, essentially, me.

And I'm pretty sure you don't want that.

[dreams_memory]

It's pain I would have felt less if I was able to feel things correctly when I first heard.

I won't. This is merely the person I am.

[glompwitch]

... That's not an excuse. Yes, it's more painful now that you can feel it. That doesn't mean you can let yourself wallow in it. Doing that is more disrespectful to them than not, regardless of what you might think now.

[dreams_memory]

I never said I'd wallow.