21st Memory [Future-dated to Saturday Morning][Voice/Possible Action]

[whats_a_sneeze]

[It was the usual day-forgetting something, needing an ear on the matter, and then calling someone. It was when she would typically call someone like Raine, or Ginko. And when she called the Mushi-shi, it fell through.

...

It fell through?

No, that's not right. That wouldn't happen. She must've just... done something wrong.

But then it continues to not

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[wise_maiden]

[ ...

She's just not going to bother with the journal response and head over to Sayo's house.]

[whats_a_sneeze]

[Sayo will be there, with the door cracked-she didn't bother with it after coming back from Ginko's apartment. She'll have herself seated on the couch, holding the things written out for her in her arms still.

Hot, dizzy, confused. She's never had to suffer this feeling of loss before, not like this. And she seems so consumed in her thoughts that she hears nothing of Raine's arrival.]

[wise_maiden]

[Raine hadn't gone to his apartment yet -- she knew she'd be there for a while if she did. All of those plants would need tending, and surely other people would be dropping in to check. And she didn't want to be there when they did.

And she knew, too, that Sayo would have others. Others better able to help her cope with this. But that didn't stop her from coming by, anyway. To make sure that she was all right -- that she would be all right, with something like this. She could deal with her own emotions about this later. Because there was always something in putting someone else first.

And Ginko wouldn't have wanted Sayo to be to her own devices, anyway, and she had long since promised herself to keep checking in on the woman, mostly out of habit and -- other things. She's quiet as she enters, looking around at the apartment before finding her on the couch.

... and there's nothing she can say, really, seeing her like that.]

... Sayo ...

[whats_a_sneeze]

... He's gone.

[There's a lot of weight, in words like that. She knows Raine knows. She knows there's understanding in just how much it hurts to say two words.]

[wise_maiden]

... I know.

[Even knowing doesn't make it feel real. It's to her credit that she manages not to have her own words tremble, instead sitting down next to the other woman on the couch. And softer:]

I know. I'm sorry, Sayo.

[whats_a_sneeze]

[Tears burn her vision, and she does her damnedest to keep them from spilling over.]

He left me... notes... He left me all sorts of notes...

[wise_maiden]

[A slow nod, though Sayo likely can't see it.]

Something for you to look over... when you're feeling ready to.

[whats_a_sneeze]

Mn.

... Sanji-san-he's gone, too.

[Depending on whether or not Raine has seen Nami's journal entry before this, it may not be much of a surprise to hear. Both had been so powerful a presence in her daily life, it was hard to think straight at the thought they were gone.]