3rd Course - Necessary Ingredients [Video]

[starofpleiades]

[Kazumi's expression is worried; not surprising after how the last few weeks have been. She wasn't really affected much, but she saw people who were...]

Is everyone alright now? Back to normal...?

[She sighs, looking a bit forlorn.]

Things making people act unlike themselves... what's "like yourself" though, other than how you acted before? I mean... what makes up a person? Our bodies? Our actions? Our memories?

[Memories...]

...hey, what do memories mean to you? How important are your memories? If you had something painful in your past... do you think it'd be better not to remember it?

[She's taking the video just outside the apartment complex, so anyone is free to run into her there or respond over the vine]

Comments

[notvitiligo]

Or something like that.

It'd help if I knew what "ghosts" are. I mean, I know they're... some kind of leftover from dead people, but...

[starofpleiades]

Hmm... I'm sorry I can't help you much with that! I've never seen anything like that.

[notvitiligo]

Nobody has. Nobody from where I'm from, anyhow. It's unprovable.

[starofpleiades]

Wow... I wonder if there's anyone here who has experience? With ghosts and such...

[notvitiligo]

There's a few, but... given how different all the worlds are, there's no guarantee their experiences would be helpful.

[Sigh]

I'm not really helping you out with your problem, though. Sorry.

[starofpleiades]

You mean... ghosts might be different on different worlds?

[She hadn't considered that!]

Eheh, it's okay... just talking with someone and hearing what they think is more than enough!

[notvitiligo]

Well, with all the worlds that have magic and stuff... it'd take a serious difference in physical laws. Unless there's a way to measure the difference, it wouldn't work to assume everything's the same.

[starofpleiades]

Hmm, I guess so... I didn't know that would change well, ghosts and things!

[notvitiligo]

Well, it could be the same, but you can't assume.

[starofpleiades]

Hmm... maybe you should take a survey or something!

[notvitiligo]

I'm not really inclined to do sociology. I'd rather have hard evidence. People are not good observers on their own.

[starofpleiades]

Hmm... it's pretty hard to get hard evidence of someone else's world while we're here though.

[notvitiligo]

That's the big problem, yeah. Nothing we can do about that.

[starofpleiades]

I guess it might remain a mystery then, if you don't want to just hear stories.