corrinesbell | 108. Plain

Yeah. ...You were really...it was pretty bad. Right before all this [a vague hand motion, meaning, you know, the last week] started, you, uh, found out that Albert was hurt too and you were sitting with him. But they hadn't let you out.

I guess you could've tried to sneak out or something but I don't think you'd've gotten very far. ...Maybe to the front door.

During that week, I was convinced that somehow ... I had been able to get out and help. And I had been with you... tracking down the summon spirits. I saw you get attacked by Volt, but there wasn't anything I could do. ... And then when we got back to the barracks, I found out about Albert.

But I know... that it isn't right. Because I remember finding him. I could barely walk. But the recollections are still... overlapping one another.

I know I told you about the summon spirits, but I'm definitely sure you weren't there to find any of them.

...Especially not Volt. [If Raine had been there then Zelos wouldn't have had to flail around so much.]

If nothing else though, you've got five or six other people who'll tell you that you didn't go anywhere, because they went to visit you too. Or you could ask, uh, Dr. McCoy, I think.

Yes... that's true. And I know that ... just by your being here and verifying things ... which reality is my true reality. Among other reasons.

Although at the same time... it's difficult to accept that you were the one who's had to bear that burden instead of me.

[Now that's a strange thing for Raine to say.]

Which burden?

[She's quiet for a long moment, gaze and tone still distant] ... Being a summoner.

[Oh. ...What?]

The other you...was a summoner? How did you know? I mean, why would you ever have... Sorry. That's probably not helping.

I told you, most of my life was the same as I remembered it before. I didn't realize I had the capability for becoming a summoner... because I had forgotten my early childhood while raising Genis in Sylvarant.

But... you knew about me, somehow, even though you didn't say it when we met. You weren't a summoner yourself, but you did know a lot about it.

Edited 2010-08-23 19:51 (UTC)

...The art of summoning doesn't exist in most of Tethe'alla. The people who do know about it don't...say much.

... The people of Mizuho are aware of it. Even though their attempts were never truly successful. Until... well, you I suppose. Or me, in a different reality.

That's what I mean. We're the only people that I've ever heard knows about it. So maybe you came there to study it or something.

[A reality where Volt didn't happen to her? ...]

No... that wasn't it, either. This was ... after my family had been cast out of Heimdall. We were on the run from the Academy. At least... that's what I was told. My memories of it are muddled in both instances.

... You don't think it's strange that we would end up in Mizuho, of all places? A secret town where no outsiders would know how to find it?

I do think it's strange. You can't really get there unless you know how to get there.

There was someone with me who knew how to get there.

You did? Who was it? [they'd have to be as old as Tiga by now...]

[Very hesitantly:] ... His name was Kloitz. I don't think there's any way you could have known him.

Edited 2010-08-23 22:19 (UTC)

...It's not a name I recognize. But it doesn't sound very Mizuho either. You sure that's not just a cover name?

It could be. He was... doing work somewhere else for a while, after all. It only makes sense that it would be under a different identity.

... Even if it wasn't good enough, in the end.

[You are saying all sorts of weird things today.]

I guess you don't remember how you ended up following him to Mizuho?

[sudden realization: Sheena would then have spent a few childhood years with Raine. ...Huh.]

No, I... I know how that happened. I know why that happened. I just... don't think it worked out that way in my actual reality. The timing seems off.

If it helps, I don't remember ever seeing you in Mizuho?

...So, wait, how did it happen?

As I said... we were on the run from Sybak. And I suppose he must have thought... where else to hide, but in a hidden town? It seems so idealistic.

But it didn't work out, or you wouldn't've been in Sylvarant in that memory too.

The circumstances were a little different.

[Some of this, Sheena's just not following. So either she's still having comprehension trouble or Raine's just choosing not to share certain things. Either one isn't great.

Sheena picks up her cup of tea again but almost immediately puts it down an shuts her eyes]

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