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[The mirror forms from a an accidental touch as Kenshin works her way around a wall, looking for something in particular, knowing she'll find it eventually. She's silent for the moment, though she has been singing for no apparent reason all day... songs she doesn't know on top of it--but it isn't anything like being turned into a dragon so she has

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[mnementomori]

[well, the sound of that is melancholy, and it cuts through her strangely giddy mood. The mirror shows her sitting with her back against a wall, her knees drawn up to her chest. She knows that feeling.]

Do you...miss someone?

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[She looks up, a bit wide-eyed, having not expected to hear a voice she couldn't sense first.]

...

[Her look softens again, though her normal scowl still doesn't return, turning down to the flowers in her hands.]

Yes...

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[mnementomori]

I'm sorry.

I do, too.

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[heart0fsword]

[She just nods in response.]

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How long... was this showing...?

[meaning how long was she being picked up by the mirror--she isn't familiar enough with more modern notions of video or radio broadcasts to use such terminology]

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[mnementomori]

Um... a while. [neither does she, honestly. She's used a computer, but not one for two-way communication.]

I guess it must have been the whole song.

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[heart0fsword]

I see...

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[mnementomori]

Can I...ask a question?

What are you taking the flowers for?

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[heart0fsword]

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She liked blue irises...

[though it isn't as though she has a grave to set them at... so she isn't sure why she picked them...]

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[mnementomori]

Oh....

Maybe the Queen can find her for you.

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[heart0fsword]

[Her brows draw, staring into the mirror.]

I don't... know that that is possible...

[And more importantly, she isn't sure if that would a miracle... or some kind of horror...]

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[mnementomori]

She's done...some pretty amazing things. It could be.

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[heart0fsword]

[She just stares at the mirror for a long, long moment without saying anything... and eventually just looks down again.]

[and then as if on cue after being silent for too long the singing just starts up again...]

People say she's only in my head...
It's gonna take time but I'll forget
They say I need to get on with my life
But they don't realize...

'Cause when you're talkin' out loud but nobody's there
You look like hell and you just don't care
Drinkin' more than you ever drank
Sinkin' down lower than you ever sank
When you find yourself fallin' down upon your knees
Prayin' to God, beggin' him please
That's when she's more than a memory

[Kenshin manages to stop after just that much, clearing her throat a bit... it was one thing when that was happening when she was alone--another when she was actually in the middle of talking to someone... (or failing at talking to someone)]

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Sorry...

[ooc; "More than a Memory", Garth Brooks I like Garth Brooks ><, spliced the appropriate lyrics...]

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[mnementomori]

[she just listens. It doesn't seem out of place to her. Maybe she hasn't seen much in her short life, but she knows what it's like to miss someone.]

You don't have to say sorry. Those words...are from your heart, right? If you miss someone, the hurt never goes away.

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[heart0fsword]

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I suppose...

[She has no idea where the songs keep coming from--it's not as though she KNOWS them.]

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And no... it doesn't...

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[mnementomori]

I hope you see her again soon, then. [she sounds sincere, though by how young her voice seems, it could be attributed to naïveté. If one knew her a little better, however, they'd realize loss is one of the few things she knows more about than she should.]

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Aa...