★ first

[unabandoned]

[accidental voice post]

--Simon?

Huh...

...I exist!

I'm me! I'm Nia! I'm still here!

But here is somewhere else. I've never seen this garden before.

Ah, what's this?

[sounds of poking, then static; the transmission cuts off]

Comments

[playstheblues]

Who else would you be?

[unabandoned]

I would be no one.

[playstheblues]

You can't be no one.

[unabandoned]

I could have been. I felt like I was, for a little while there.

But I feel like I'm me again. Why is that?

[arr_ilovemecigs]

What the fuck, this place has a garden?

[unabandoned]

There's one right here. What's this place?

[arr_ilovemecigs]

Welcome to the City, the shithole to end all shitholes.

Not too bad after you get over the bright lights all up in your face and the weird shit that goes on every once in a while from those asshole deities.

[unabandoned]

No, it doesn't seem so bad. It's very pretty. How big is it?

[justasystem]

Hello, Nia.

[unabandoned]

Hello. Who are you? Are all these people talking to me inside this box, or just using it to communicate?

[justasystem]

I'm the Tianzi.

Just to communicate. I don't live in a box.

[unabandoned]

Oh, that's good. I can meet everyone sometime, then.

The Tianzi? Is that your name, or something you are? It sounds a little like it's both.

[light_lost]

Are you alright?

[unabandoned]

I think so! But...that's about all I know right now.

[light_lost]

You said you were in a garden, correct?

[unabandoned]

I was. I left it, and now I'm by a hotspring. Blue said the temple here is safe to stay for the night.

[theaverageone]

Why wouldn't you exist?

[unabandoned]

Because we destroyed the Anti-Spirals.

[theaverageone]

Uh, okay. That doesn't exactly help. At least you exist now, right?

[unabandoned]

Did I confuse him? Yes! It's nice to exist. Although...