[055] Voice

[poppingseeds]

[Screened | Jing | Unhackable]

So, um... I met your former roommate.

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[Screened | Princess Mercury | Unhackable]

How advanced are your healing abilities? If you don't mind my inquiring, that is.

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[thieveryofstars]

Oh. You did?

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[poppingseeds]

I did. If he can, ahm, take away your memories, how dangerous is he?

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[thieveryofstars]

Dange--

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He had help doing that, and the person who helped is no longer in Econtra either of them so I don't think it could happen again.

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Did he bother you or anything? Why-- how did you meet him?

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[poppingseeds]

Oh.

That? I was checking Echo while taking a break -- saw something left for me from him. He asked if I had food poisoning for some reason.

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[thieveryofstars]

[long sigh]

He thinks I'm cooking, that's the thing about the food poisoning. It's not a bad thing.

Echo...?

I see. I'll tell him to leave you alone if he's bothering you.

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[poppingseeds]

Er, I don't think he'll really be bothering me. At least I hope not. I'm not going to wake up with an angry ex-roommate attempting to murder me, am I?

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[thieveryofstars]

[that actually cracks a smile from him, just from the sheer ludicracy of the image]

No, nothing like that. Aligoté is... he's another version of Kir, who's my best friend and partner. But Aligoté is from an alternate world where things are... different. Bad. His Jing is...

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[poppingseeds]

Oh... Is there something wrong with his Jing?

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[thieveryofstars]

Dead.

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[poppingseeds]

Oh... Oh, Jing... I'm sorry, really.

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[thieveryofstars]

So coming here, meeting myself and my Kir -- who was here at the time -- it was bad for Aligoté. He almost died last year, almost exactly to the day, because we didn't realize how much damage had been done to his soul. We fixed him though... we thought he'd be all right. Or at least better.

The memories... things here were just turning for the better. I had... there were a lot of people who'd become important to me. Kir and Cassis and others. And then one day, they were just gone, all of them. Except I didn't remember them.

Aligoté had made a deal with the younger Yuuko, a dimension witch. I don't even know what price he paid to get it done, but he took away all my memories of Cassis, and for some reason I thought... that he was my Kir. I didn't even remember that my own partner had been with me for the last year

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[poppingseeds]

[there's a long pause before she speaks angrily]

How absolutely awful of him to dare do such a thing to you!

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[thieveryofstars]

He said my Kir would have done the same thing.

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[poppingseeds]

It sounds like you're better off without them, then. As much as it hurts, I still want to remember my important people. It would be worse to just... forget.

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[thieveryofstars]

Don't say that! Kir is my partner!

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[thieveryofstars]

... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell, Persephone. It still just hurts to know they've been gone all this time. Do they even remember...

I don't know if what Aligoté said was true. Kir has always looked out for me, and somehow I believe he didn't do this for the wrong reasons. But that doesn't change what happened and what I lost, and I don't know if I'll be able to trust him again because of it.

We both said... such cruel things when we fought though...