Paper Crane 2 [Video]
[Hanna seems to be sitting at the kitchen table of the Greek house, staring at his fingers. There are dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't really been sleeping, which really, he hadn't. He has two things sitting on the table in front of him, a dusty paper crane, and the broken half of a red tiara. His hands seem both incapable of letting go of either objects.]
I...Let me start with...um. This. I found this in a house I helped repair. I don't remember it. But I redid the roof. And I...
[He falters a moment, fingers curling very tightly around the broken headpiece.]
This woman, she...Mireille was her name. She seemed to be very kind to me and even if I didn't want to admit it then, just watching conversations between the two of us. I...I loved her. Me. In love. It just...But s-she's gone now. And this. This crane is one of many.
[He shakily lets go of the tiara to hold the little crane with both his hands.]
I started them with Humphry back home. But here, at Adstring, I finished them with my b-best friend. We made wishes. They were very important ones...to heal broken hearts, you know? Fix us because we thought we were broken. And...I am so sorry that I had forgotten. I still don't remember. I watched these old videos...conversations and at first it felt wrong, watching myself talk, but I know its me. The me that people here remember, and I find myself wanting to be him.
So...I'm going to try. There are so many more videos and conversations that I might have lost. That I can't find...if you know of some, something important to you...share them with me? I want to know who I was, so I can get back to being him again.
[He barely manages a smile to the camera before staring at the objects in his hands again before finally the feed cuts out.]
I...Let me start with...um. This. I found this in a house I helped repair. I don't remember it. But I redid the roof. And I...
[He falters a moment, fingers curling very tightly around the broken headpiece.]
This woman, she...Mireille was her name. She seemed to be very kind to me and even if I didn't want to admit it then, just watching conversations between the two of us. I...I loved her. Me. In love. It just...But s-she's gone now. And this. This crane is one of many.
[He shakily lets go of the tiara to hold the little crane with both his hands.]
I started them with Humphry back home. But here, at Adstring, I finished them with my b-best friend. We made wishes. They were very important ones...to heal broken hearts, you know? Fix us because we thought we were broken. And...I am so sorry that I had forgotten. I still don't remember. I watched these old videos...conversations and at first it felt wrong, watching myself talk, but I know its me. The me that people here remember, and I find myself wanting to be him.
So...I'm going to try. There are so many more videos and conversations that I might have lost. That I can't find...if you know of some, something important to you...share them with me? I want to know who I was, so I can get back to being him again.
[He barely manages a smile to the camera before staring at the objects in his hands again before finally the feed cuts out.]