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[cheerfuldreamer]

M-mother ...? M-mother ...

[There's a brief silence before a loud scream and the sound of something (more than likely a chair) falling over, as well as someone hitting the ground.]

Mother ... did mother blow up? Why ...? Mother ... mother is in little pieces ... little pieces

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[Voice]

[broken_messiah]

K-Kotori!! No... nononono... not again... Kotori... where are you? Kotori...

[Voice]

[cheerfuldreamer]

Kamui? Kamui ... why did mother die like this, Kamui? Kotori doesn't understand ... why did mother blow up?

[Voice]

[broken_messiah]

Kotori! Don't look! Don't look! It's not real! It's just another experiment... Kotori... please tell me where you are? Are you at home?

[Voice]

[cheerfuldreamer]

Kotori is at home ... Kotori is at home with mother ...

[Voice to action]

[broken_messiah]

..Kotori... it's not real...

[enters her house slowly and reluctantly] Kotori?

[Action]

[cheerfuldreamer]

[Kotori's in the middle of her living room, her journal next to her and a knocked over chair nearby. She's pawing at the floor, as if she's trying to pick something up while muttering to herself. She's not paying any attention to Kamui at all.]

[Action]

[broken_messiah]

... [walks over... not wanting to deal with this again but forces himself to. At least Kotori shouldn't be in damger this time... He kneels in front of her and holds her shoulders firmly. Then says in a firm voice after taking a deep breath] Kotori. Look at me. Kotori.

[Action]

[cheerfuldreamer]

Hee hee ... Kamui is so serious ... why are you so serious Kamui? [She looks at him, but her eyes show that she's not all there.]

[Action]

[broken_messiah]

[well, at least she could see him...] Kotori, listen to me. Please listen to me. Saya-baa-san, Kotori's mother isn't here. She isn't in pieces. This is... this is just a bad dream. A bad dream. Do you understand, Kotori? It's not real. She wasn't blown up into pieces. She wasn't!

[Action]

[cheerfuldreamer]

A dream ... a dream ... is Kamui a dream too?

[Action]

[broken_messiah]

I... [maybe he could... so he smiles gently] I am not a dream, Kotori. I am real. I am here. Everything else is just a bad dream. But I am real. [takes her hand and leans his cheek against it] See. I am real.

[Action]

[cheerfuldreamer]

[She nods a little, smiling and lightly giggling to herself.] Kamui is real ... but this is a dream ... Kotori is having a bad dream ...

[Action]

[broken_messiah]

Yes, that's right, Kotori. I am real. Kamui is real. All these other terrible things you're seeing are just part of a very bad dream. Let's leave this bad dream together, okay? [holds her hand gently]

[Action]

[cheerfuldreamer]

[She looks back at the ghostly parts of her mother.] Kotori wants to stay with mother ... Kotori wants to put mother back together again ...

[Action]

[broken_messiah]

[his smile falters and he clenches the hand not holding Kotori into a tight fist] Kotori... your mother is not here. I just told you. It's not real. She is not here...

[Action]

[cheerfuldreamer]

Mother looks so sad ... Kotori wants to make mother happy again ... Kotori can feel mother in her dreams, she doesn't want to leave mother so sad ...