oh, ancient words of fading colors, keep turning the cogs of passing time;

[liberazoth]

[ i am so genshinblind gimme a shitpost coco ]

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[hyperbloom]

Yeah.

[ Bingo. He gets it, indeed. ]

It absolutely wasn't voluntary. There's -- there's something at play, here. Would you say the same?

[liberazoth]

... yeah. I think so. I think you're right.

[ pause. he's thinking over his words, and they're slow to come as he starts, a little hesitantly, ]

Did you notice? Back when we first met the two of them, Adela, I think ... She said something I thought was a little strange. Someone else asked if she was really happy staying here, or something like that I think ... And she said she didn't have anything to go back to.

Nothing that she recalls, anyway.

[hyperbloom]

[ Huh. That's an observation and a half. Shinobu's impressed, and she's thoughtful for a moment, letting his words turn in her head. ]

Nothing that she recalls. ... Her little meltdown at the picnic -- do you think she got something back, too?

[liberazoth]

Honestly, I've sort of been wondering about it since Erika held that meeting the other day. Mostly ... I was wondering whether our memories would get worse. If we stayed here longer, I mean.

[ like makima and adela have. ]

But, um. That ... doesn't really seem to be right, anymore.

[ did adela also remember something... ]

[hyperbloom]

Progressively worse overtime... Wouldn't that be something?

[ She says it with a bit of bitterness. Yes, she's a little mad that she forgot about one of the biggest parts of her life. ]

If Makima also remembered something, I wouldn't know. She has the best poker face I've seen in a while.

[liberazoth]

[ hypothetical amnesia upon amnesia upon amnesia ... would they truly be happy if they just forgot everything they ever knew? everything sad, but then, also... ]

... I don't really know what to think about Miss Makima. [ ... ] Well.

I don't really know what I think about either of them, really.

[hyperbloom]

[ Adela was hinting a lot at that, wasn't she? Happiness. This isn't the version of it that Shinobu would like, though. ]

They're enigmatic. I don't trust them, personally.

[ But that's just her. ]

Anyway, enough about them... Are you gonna be okay?

[liberazoth]

[ adela had hoped they would be happy here. is ... that in spite of the memory loss, or because of it?

but sure, let's move on. ]

... Are you? You seemed ... You left pretty quickly too, after all.

[hyperbloom]

Yeah. I'll be okay. It's just shocking to experience something huge coming back to me, I guess.

[ Because what she remembered is no small part of her life. ]

You get that, right?

[liberazoth]

... Yeah. I get it. I only have to remember ... the entire time I was growing up, after all.

[ how strange it was, that he'd thought nothing was off before now. ]