ⅹⅹ- [voice]

[mnementomori]

[a soft voice that might be familiar to some speaks up after a moment, a tinge of weariness in it.]

A lot of people...left again. I want people to be happy at home, but...


What...do you do when...your memories start to fade? I don't want to lose them forever.

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[spacejumping]

I'll keep doing what I can, for as long as I'm able to.

[mnementomori]

You mean until you go home?

Is there something important you have to do there?

[spacejumping]

I want to find out more about these Gardens, as well as the coordinates for this planet.

[mnementomori]

I've been here for a long time, so I can tell you what I know if you want...

Coordinates...planet? You mean this world?

[spacejumping]

Exactly. But until I do, I'd be willing to listen to what you know.

[mnementomori]

Well, as far as we can tell--me and the other people I've talked to, I mean...there isn't really anyone else that's been here longer than me anymore. Um, maybe one or two people. But before us, I don't know if there was anyone else. There weren't a lot of people at first, but there are much more now.

It's really hard to talk to the Queen, but when you do she's, uh. Not very helpful. She's not mean or anything, just-- [she pauses, searching for a word.] Not...entirely there? She keeps saying she wants us to be happy and that she's lonely so that's why she keeps people here. No one really knows why it's just girls, though. I guess she doesn't like boys?

[spacejumping]

The Queen... How many times have you seen her genuinely angry?

[mnementomori]

Angry? [she has to stop and think again.] I don't think...I've ever seen her angry. She's been really upset before, but it was more like sad than angry.

It's her helpers that get angry, sometimes.

[spacejumping]

At what, or who?

[mnementomori]

Ummm, each other. Or the Queen. One time one of them left because she was mad at the Queen and we had to convince her to come back.

[spacejumping]

Maybe we should focus more on these "helpers" instead of trying to get information from the Queen.

[mnementomori]

They don't talk very much, either...but we can try. Oh--There was a woman who told us a little about the queen. Sort of. She gave us some puzzles to solve.

[spacejumping]

Do we even know her by a name other than "The Queen"?

[mnementomori]

No...I don't think so. And the rest of them are like that, too. The High Priestess, the Warrior Princess, the Mother...

[spacejumping]

A little too fond of titles, I'd say.

[ooc: she didn't care much for the one she'd picked up, or rather, the one that'd been given to her.]

[mnementomori]

They should have names. Doesn't everyone? I wonder why they hide them. Or maybe the titles are their names?

[spacejumping]

Somehow, I don't think they'd just tell us if we simply asked them.