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[gentlecuteside]

[Amamiya appears in front of the mirror, sitting on her knees. She waits a moment before taking a deep breath and beginning to speak:I'm sorry to bore all of you with this, but I had to be sure it's gone. If it isn't, this could be the last you hear from me, and if that happens I'm sorry for dying in such a stupid way

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[heartovertime]

[...she doesn't know this girl, having maybe seen her on the Vine before, but never having met...

And yet the girl's story is one that is familiar, in a way, to the experiences Homura had lived through prior to coming here. It may not be the Earth she came from, but there were similarities. Far too many similarities to just pass by the message.

Even if she can't tell all of her experiences yet, no one should have to feel like they've gone through things like that alone.

She's a bit reserved and shy as usual around someone she doesn't know, but her eyes glisten sympathetically.]

I'm sorry...That must have been hard...

[gentlecuteside]

It was. A whole six months of my life, stolen by Nemesis Q. And then I couldn't even talk about it, even here...it was hell.

[heartovertime]

[Homura lowers her eyes a little.] ...I understand, a little... [It's not intended to diminish the girl's experience, but...she really did understand some of it.]

I'm glad you're free now.

It's the glasses. Those frames are apparently a recipe for time-travel suffering.

[gentlecuteside]

...oh? What do you understand?

[She's thinking that this girl's maybe got the same thing going on.]

[heartovertime]

[It's a moment before Homura speaks, though it isn't due to reluctance that she would not be believed, for once. But the memories are painful ones too, something like a dream turned nightmare prior to coming to this place.]

For several weeks prior to coming here I fought monsters too. They were called Witches and they fed off of negative emotions and caused all sorts of accidents and suicides. [She pauses, briefly.] There was a worse one too...who easily tore skyscrapers in half with her magic. And only a few of us could even fight them.

We couldn't tell anyone about them either. It wasn't as serious but...more just that they wouldn't laugh at us or think we had gone crazy. [Pause] They wouldn't have been able to have even seen them.

[And there's more to the story, her eyes say, but she's hesitant.]

[gentlecuteside]

Oh, I see. Are you friends with Mami, then? She told me a story very much like that one.

[heartovertime]

Mm...That's right. Tomoe-san and I have been through a number of the same things together. [But many more different.]

[gentlecuteside]

It sounds like a very hard life. I hope everything works out for you.

[heartovertime]

Mm... It's...kind of nice being here, without that all to worry about. My friends are here and alive, so...

I hope you can find some peace now too...

[gentlecuteside]

I think I will. I hope I will. It's been so long, though...no matter. I'll recover, I'm sure of it.

[heartovertime]

I'm...Homura Akemi, if you should need anything...