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[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

[theaverageone]

Why wouldn't you exist?

[theaverageone]

I sure hope not.

[unabandoned]

You mean you're not dead?

[theaverageone]

Not that I know of. I followed my cat here, I'm pretty sure I would remember dying.

...Are you?

[unabandoned]

I guess I am. Although...I disappeared, rather than died.

[theaverageone]

Oh. That's... I guess I get what you meant about existing and all that, now.

[unabandoned]

Yes. It was very hard to keep existing, towards the end. But now that I'm here, it's easy again.

[theaverageone]

Well, uh... I guess that's good, then.

[unabandoned]

It is! It's nice to be here. And I'm sure Simon will come soon. He'll find me.