TMI

[alittleblackmagic]

[video]
[of the inside of Palom's mouth]

Look!  All that gross mucus-y stuff is gone!  I'm finally better now!  [Not that anyone could really tell he was sick; his volume only decreased like a half notch even with a sore throat]  Wanna see up my nose?  I've always wanted to know what it looked like but it's kinda hard to tell with just a mirror and a light.  Oh maybe you guys can play me back the video of my nose later so I can see inside myself that'd be really cool OK wait hold on I hafta take a deep breath so I don't accidentally sneeze in the middle or something I'm still a little bit

AHCHOO!

[sniff]

..........Well now there's snot everywhere.  Gross.

Anyway!  I remembered a lot of cool stuff!  I'm from Mysidia!  It's a city of mages!  And I'm the youngest one, but I know like, almost all of the black magic spells already cause I'm a prodigy!  Toldja I was!  Everyone was jealous of me and Porom 'cause the Elder took care of us and taught us himself and we knew the most, but also 'cause I was way better at casting magic than they were.

Oh!  And I remembered something else!  We were all mages because we were protecting this thing called the Crystal of Water.  I don't know what it does but I bet it was really important.

Comments

[promised_victory]

[Arturia answers mostly because it's comforting to know it's true. People really do remember things over time. There's no set of information you know with no context and a big black gap before a couple days ago in which you knew you existed but have no way of breaching into.]

What sort of black magic did you learn?

[There's an uneasiness to the phrase she doesn't understand, but she knows people come from other worlds. Perhaps explaining this would ease her mind on this subject, even as Porom unknowingly eases her mind on the memory issue.]

[alittleblackmagic]

[Terrible question to everyone who isn't Palom. The best question ever to the little boy. He beams as he finally brings the video away from his mucousal membranes.]

Tons! The best spells! The hardest spells! Like turning people into pigs and frogs and stopping time and tornados and meteors and earthquakes... I haven't remembered it all yet but I've got maybe ten or fifteen right now, depending on if you count all the elemental spell levels as being different ones or the same; like I just got back Bio but I already knew Poison so it's sort of just an upgrade.

[promised_victory]

[Yeah, this is very not reassuring!]

I.... see. So any skills we've learned before return to us as well?

[alittleblackmagic]

Well. I don't know if it's returned, you still sorta have them, right? You've just forgotten all of it. I know if I had my magic books with me, I'd be able to remember how to cast my spells a lot more easily.