re_alignment | voice | trion's temple

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brave police: j-decker | kagerou

voice | trion's temple

[This isn't where he was supposed to be. He was on the roof just a second ago. Why... why is he in the temple now? It doesn't make any sense.]

[And then the feeling of loss sets in. Considering he can no longer recall the events leading up to, and including the fight with Overlord, he can only assume this loss is of memory itself. The most important thing he has...]

[... needless to say, when it finally occurs to him to grab the Link and make a call, he sounds utterly frantic.]

Someone -- please. I don't know what happened. I...

[He actually needs a moment to calm down enough to speak.]

... My memory is... there is something missing. I can feel -- I can feel it!

Please. Help.

[This is the most distressing thing in the world... at least until someone tells him he was dead a minute ago.]

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Mm. I'm okay.

[He looks up at him.]

Are...you going to be okay, Kagerou?

[He doesn't answer right away. Because he's honestly not sure how to answer.]

[Maybe just be truthful.]

... I don't know.

[The boy stands there a moment more before he plops down and sits.]

I hope you can be okay. I just wish I knew what I could do to help.

... I wish I knew, too.

I'm sorry. I'm. I'm scared. I don't understand anything happening here.

....it's okay to be scared. There's a lot I don't understand about what's going on either, but...at least you don't have to be alone.

No.

Not alone.

[He sort of hunches over the boy. As if to hold him closer.]

Thank you.

[He finally manages a smile, nodding.]

That's what friends are for.

And... we are still friends?

Of course!

That's... good. Good.

I don't want that to change. Because of something I don't remember.

Why would it? ...but I wouldn't want it to change either. When you don't remember things, that's all the more reason to have friends close by.

I don't... know. I'm missing so much. If I did something... and I can't remember it... I...

[He can't finish. It's too awful for him to think about.]

Someone else must know. I'm...just hoping that what I was told originally was wrong, somehow. I mean, you're here, and you're okay, so...

No. I'm not okay.

My memories... they're not coming back.

[Which means he's not okay at all, in his mind.]

But...it's not all your memories, right..? You...you can still remember things from the past, right?

Yes... I. Yes.

But it's not... it's not as simple as that. My memories -- they're all I have of myself. Losing any of them... is losing a piece of me.

...I know what you mean.

I... Well there's a lot I can't remember, myself. Not from here, but...back where I came from. I don't even know for sure where I came from before that.

You... had your memories deleted?

I don't know. I'm not sure what happened. Aqua and Terra- my friends back home, they said that when I was brought to the Land of Departure, I didn't do much of anything, and it took me a while before I even really reacted to anything or anyone.

You... had no memories at all? Not one?

[Because that's what he imagines it would be like, to be deleted. Completely unresponsive to the world around you.]

[He shakes his head.]

[From the look on his face, you'd think Ventus told him his parents were brutally murdered in front of him, instead of... he had amnesia.]

I...

I'm sorry.

[Ventus looks up at Kagerou again.]

I can't remember what happened, but I remember the time I spent with my friends, and I don't know if I would have ever snapped out of it without them.

I don't worry too much about whatever happened in the past, because I know I have people looking out for me and who care for me now.

...and sometimes I wonder if it's better that way...

You... think it's better, not to remember some part of yourself like that?

I'm not sure. I'm kind of scared to know...

[Because what could have left him in such a state? Surely nothing good...]

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