o32 :: Hello again, it's you and me, kinda always like it used to be

[grab_my_bells]

[The writing is slow, like Bell is purposely pacing himself so that someone can see this as it is being written on the page.]

It appears as I write. See?

Comments

[spandexisyouth]

[Written with similar speed as he peers over Bell's shoulder.]

Aha! And this works in all of them? At the same time? Or just ones that are close?

[grab_my_bells]

All. Any journal belonging to a current resident of this place.

[spandexisyouth]

And so those others writing are other people elsewhere.

[grab_my_bells]

Correct.

[cathar_jedi]

[She doesn't like this.]

What has happened?

[grab_my_bells]

[Rightly so.]

Gai's forgotten everything: the sphere, any memories he collected; it's like he was reset.

[cathar_jedi]

And yet he did not die. [She's fairly certain that she'd have heard if he had.]

I believe that I have seen many people today who seemed [pause] unusually confused.

[grab_my_bells]

Correct.

[Oh, great, it's an epidemic.] It might be good to round them up and at least give them the new-hatchling introductory speech.

[burntorangesky]

[Reading that, and the comments, with alarm.]

Bell? Gai? What is happening?

[grab_my_bells]

Gai's memory is gone. It's like he's a newborn again, except he isn't. Rain found him in the park like this.

[burntorangesky]

In the But that's

What the bloody hell. Is he alright, other than that?

[grab_my_bells]

He's fine. Just confused.

[getsome_sleep]

[... oh crap.]

Gui-Bell, may I speak with you in private?

[grab_my_bells]

If you'd like. Where would you like to meet?

Quicklog maybe please? ^^

[getsome_sleep]

I am currently at the Scavengers' Yard. Is that convenient?

[He isn't, but he'll be there soon. Private means private.]

Sure ^^

[grab_my_bells]

[Someone hesitates about leaving his memoryless bf alone...so no, it's not really convenient, but.]

Yeah. I'll be there as soon as Fred is here.

[Quicklog]

[Bell was only slightly late. Even though he knew hanging around at the house was not necessarily going to make Gai remember or keep him any safer than leaving Gai alone would, Bell was still cautious and paranoid. He made sure Fred had arrived to visit before stepping out to see Huo. At least if something happened to Bell, Gai would have a known-friend to look after him.]

[He didn't frequent the scrapyard to the degree that others, like Gai, did, so Bell was somewhat unfamiliar with the set up. Mindful of his surroundings, he walked around the piles of various findings until he found Huo. Even to the untrained and inattentive eye, Bell looked somewhat burned out and his attempts to cover it with a casual air and flippant humor weren't terribly effective. It was probably dangerous, then, to be talking with and observed by a man as observant as Huo right now.]Hey. It

[ice_echani]

[spandexisyouth]

So this shows marks too! [He slowly sketches a stick figure waving while watching the lines form in both journals.]

[ice_echani]

Yes. It shows everything that is written or spilled on the pages.

[...stick-figure. Oh, Gai.]

I take it that is you? [arrow at the little guy.]

[spandexisyouth]

That is very useful!

[Now he adds a smiley-face to it.]

It can be! Though it is much thinner than me. ...And shorter. And it is flat.

[Eyebrows get drawn in, and a bowl-cut too.]

But now it is more like me.