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[cruelwonder]

This might seem an odd question, but how does one commemorate another's death here? I was told that there is a cemetery but because of what happens at night, most people are cremated and their ashes are sent away from the island. Is there, perhaps, a memorial of some sort for the unnamed deceased or perhaps something very generalized for others to

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[madeinoblivion]

Riku started a memory wall down at the baseball diamond, last summer.

But that's really just for newcomers.

[cruelwonder]

I've seen it. It's...rather depressing, but it's a nice thing to do for the people who have left here.

[madeinoblivion]

Yeah. A memorial. Who were you thinking about?

[cruelwonder]

My parents and sister.

[madeinoblivion]

Oh...

They died?

[cruelwonder]

Yes, in a fire...ten years ago.

[madeinoblivion]

That's really awful...

Somebody else saved you? Or were you someplace else, when it happened?

[cruelwonder]

I saved myself. And jumped out my window.

[madeinoblivion]

Oh...

What happened to you then?

[cruelwonder]

I was... I was very young then. I had to live elsewhere.

[madeinoblivion]

Oh...

I never had any parents. But if I did, losing them would be awful. In a fire-

...was it nice, at least, where you went to live after that?

[cruelwonder]

You've never had parents?

[A beat.]

No. No, it was not.

[madeinoblivion]

Nope. Just a scientist. Riku had a mom, but-

But I don't.