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[paintitgray]

(radio memory)

[The memory begins softly - the unfamiliar voice of a young girl, plaintive and frightened.]

Are we...not human?

[The voice that answers is, unmistakably, Kurayami's - but calm, gentle, detached, perhaps a little melancholy at most. The tone of an authority figure.]

Nobody knows what we are. For now, we call ourselves the [

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[Radio]

[inthecenterfold]

Shit, Kura-chan...

Do you recognize this? Is this a memory like the rest?

[Radio]

[paintitgray]

....yeah, I....yeah. [Pause - if she wasn't so rattled, this would never leave her mouth, but.] It happened to me...

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[inthecenterfold]

[The hamster wheel's turning, but slowly]

I'm sorry you're getting hit with this like everyone else.

[Radio]

[paintitgray]

Everyone... [Long pause.]

The broadcasts...they're all real, aren't they. Whatever happened to her, I...I was part of it...

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[inthecenterfold]

Hey, Kura, I highly doubt you just made that happen to her. [At least for the sake of the moment he's going to pretend he believes that.] You wouldn't have made her hurt. Right?

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[paintitgray]

I...I don't know. [Her head is spinning.] It happened to me...

I don't even know her name.

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[inthecenterfold]

Most of us don't know their names. Just try to calm down.

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[paintitgray]

[Well, that's common sense. She takes a deep breath and lets it out, slowly. When she speaks again, she at least sounds calm.]

I know, but I still feel like I should remember her. She was...important.

[She pauses. Things are falling into place in her head.]

I think she was getting her wings...

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[inthecenterfold]

Maybe you will remember her, someday.

[He says that only to comfort her, since he knows how she feels about the past]

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[paintitgray]

[Something in her heart twists poignantly at that, though she isn't sure why, and maybe that's why her answer comes out so uncharacteristically wistful.]

...I hope so.