[Hymn #2]

[nightcrossed]

I guess I should review what I've learned for my own benefit...

This place is called Memento Eden and it seems that people arriving here with no memories is a common occurence. The amnesia visitors suffer seems to be unnatural and induced by something... or someone. Wilheim compared it to a stage. I think I will stick to the chess game analogy. I wonder if there really is someone behind everything and what they'd be gaining from it... and what path I'll choose.

Anyway, over time memories return to people. This process seems slow, however. I may have plenty of time in Memento Eden, but I feel like I should keep myself busy and do what I can.

Food and board is apparently provided for free. I discovered I'm on one of the lower floors of the Ari Apartments, and apparently have a roommate. I think her name was Renge? I wonder what this person is like? I'm sure I'll find out soon.

Yes. The more I look at it, the more I realize I won't be able to simply do things on my own. There are so many people here... They seem very willing to help. I wonder if I'll be of any help to someone else?

To begin, I need to find myself a job. Preferably something with a cute uniform... After that I need to learn how to fight with a staff and how to use throwing knives. I wouldn't have them with me if I had never used them before, right? I wonder what else I'll be able to learn.

If I continue like this, I should be able to find some answers. I just hope that wherever I came from things are going well. I'd feel bad if someone needed me and I wasn't there for them.

Come to think about it, I wonder why I was crying...

Comments

[apurposetolive.livejournal.com]

Geez, I try to give you advice and your first instinct is to chew me out?

All right, look. Renge's not evil. She's just...crazy. Totally nuts.

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

Yes, as a matter of fact it is. Do I really need advice every step of the way? Maybe I do appear to be a damsel-in-distress...

I can understand giving advice, but I wasn't expecting people to react so strongly to something I just casually mentioned.

Besides, I've never even met this girl.
How do I know she's crazy? Maybe the two of you just happen to dislike her for some reason. It's not like I have any way of knowing for sure if I don't meet her myself.

How do I know that you're not crazy, for that matter?

[apurposetolive.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey, hey, wait a second! I'm not the one spouting random stuff about "bee-shees" and matchmaking and...and...

...Just...just ask almost anybody here! They'll say the same thing!

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

...Maybe she just doesn't get along well with men? So far no girls have warned me about her...

"Bee-shees"? I wonder what those are...

Fine, fine. If she turns out to be as dangerous as you say, Luke, I'll move out promptly.

But suppose they don't give me a new room if I complain. It's not like I have a lot of basis. "So-and-so told me she's crazy and eccentric and random"... somehow an excuse like that might not go over very well.

[Tear ponders this.]

[apurposetolive.livejournal.com]

They don't let you do that. You have to find someone who you want to room with and move in with them. Well, unless you get the money to move to the Memoria Apartments.

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

In other words I'll have to learn to tolerate her even if she proves difficult to live with. I see no point in throwing money away on board when I can stay here for free unless she's completely mad.

Publishing a magazine, being random and playing matchmaker...
It's possible she's just trying to make friends in her own way.

Has she done anything horrible to you personally?

[apurposetolive.livejournal.com]

The point of Memoria is a fancier place to live. And people here have nothing better to blow money on.

To me? Not yet. Hopefully she never does.

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

Oh? [Tear looks doubtful, then simply shrugs it off.]

I'll meet her myself and continue from there. It won't do to avoid someone based on second-hand information alone...

[apurposetolive.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that.

[a-severed-fate.livejournal.com]

[Annoyance.] Yes. Thank you...