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[magicgunworks.livejournal.com]

[It's been a few days since Mami arrived in Sirocco, but this is the first time she's bothered checking the network. It seems there are other people like her - people suddenly appearing without their memories - so she saves the default WHO WHAT WHERE HOW WHY questions for later. No need to get repetitive, right?

But she does want to introduce herself, so after a moment of thinking up a good conversation starter, she speaks.]

What does it feel like for everyone else? Losing your memory, I mean.

For me, it's... almost like standing in the middle of an unlit room. You know there are things placed all around you, and you should know what they are and where they should be... but it's too dark. So you wander around trying to find something, anything, in what you think is a familiar spot. But it's empty, so you lose your bearings. And you just keep making it worse by continuing to look around.

[She sounds so lost in thought right now, it's almost like she doesn't realize she's talking to other people. Care to bother her?]

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[wontdieifkilled.livejournal.com]

I, ah...hadn't really thought about it in any sort of way like that, but when you put it that way, that's actually a pretty good description of it.

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[magicgunworks.livejournal.com]

You think so? [She laughs a little.] That's good to hear. I was afraid some people would think it sounds silly.

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[wontdieifkilled.livejournal.com]

Well, it isn't like I could have come up with anything better, anyway.

[frumpyface.livejournal.com]

Well, if any consolation arises from it, when something does come back to you, it feels like wandering this empty room of yours before you suddenly walk into a wall. And you curse yourself for forgetting the wall was ever there and wondering how you ever-

I mean, not to imply that remembering is painful, but- ha... I think this analogy got away from me.

[magicgunworks.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I understand it perfectly! Or what you were trying to get at, at least. Remembering something that should be so obvious makes us all feel a bit silly, right?

[frumpyface.livejournal.com]

That about covers it. For instance, I felt like the world's biggest fool when I realized I had forgotten being a mage. It has yet to help me with magic, but it is at least something to ground me.

[sardine-power.livejournal.com]

The darkness, however, is not just something to curse. It is a part of you now! Embrace it, and live.

[magicgunworks.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I didn't mean for it to sound like a curse, exactly. More like... an obstacle, I suppose. It may seem a little intimidating, but it's something we can get past if we try hard enough. Right?

[sardine-power.livejournal.com]

If you hope to get your memories back, then yes. I trust the secret to restoring them has been made familiar to you?

[cantlearnbreak]

That sounds very much like how I have been feeling... I haven't been able to put it into words until just now.

[magicgunworks.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help, then.

[cantlearnbreak]

It's a very astute analogy.

Do you remember your name, miss? I believe I'm called Porom.

[futureoriented.livejournal.com]

It's like standing in nothing. Not a white room, or a dark one. Nothing. No light, but no darkness either. Just emptiness. ... It doesn't even echo.

That's how it is for me.

[magicgunworks.livejournal.com]

Surrounded by nothing... that seems like another way to put it, even if it does seem a bit depressing.

[futureoriented.livejournal.com]

Depressing... it might be. What's your name? ... I'm Homura.

[lifesmegassweet.livejournal.com]

Well, it is sort of an empty feelin'... but that just means you gots to work hard to fill it! If not with old stuff, then with new! That's how I feel, anyway.

[manjuumagic.livejournal.com]

For Mokona, it's like playing hide-and-seek with a blindfold! It's hard to find things, but sometimes you can guess, and sometimes you get to cheat and peek out!