voice;

[binarysky]

Does anyone know a way to remember things better?

Like...you used to remember something really clearly and now it's getting fuzzier. Is there a way to fix that?

Comments

voice;

[stargathering]

I don't think there's a way to change that and make memories return easily... All you can do is write out what you do remember and hope that helps.

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I guess so. Thanks anyway. Maybe I'll just write more.

voice;

[stargathering]

Good luck. I hope it helps you.

[ After a moment, he thinks to ask: ] Is it something from home or here?

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

Home.

I don't want to forget the little details about my friends.

voice;

[stargathering]

Mm...

If it helps, you'll have all your memories of them back whenever you return... So you won't ever really forget even those little things.

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew when that would be.

Or that they'd come here.

voice;

[stargathering]

... You just need to wait. Everyone shows up here eventually... And people go back all the time.

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I hope so.

But it's been a long time.

voice;

[stargathering]

How long has it been for you?

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

Since last summer.

voice;

[stargathering]

Mm... That's almost as long as it's been for me... [ He thinks on that for a moment, reminiscing. ] Maybe the City will make pictures fall from the sky again sometime so you'll have a memory of them that you can actually see and hold, too...

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I'd like that.

Do you miss your friends?

voice;

[stargathering]

[ He hums shortly. ] Sometimes... I have a lot of friends here, though, so I try not to think the ones back home. I know I'll see them again soon, but the ones here...

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't see them again?

voice;

[stargathering]

Yeah... It's not possible for either of us to travel between worlds, so when we leave here, that's it...

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

What if you found someone who could take you to other worlds?

voice;

[stargathering]

[ Heh... ] If we remembered each other, I'd try to find them...

Wouldn't you?

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I can.

voice;

[stargathering]

Ah--

So you're not that worried about losing the people you meet here, huh?

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I don't know...this world doesn't work like the other ones I've been to. They say I won't remember it when I leave. But I'd like to.

voice;

[stargathering]

... Well, you won't know until you leave. People have come back and remember their pasts here, though, so maybe you will be able to remember...

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll find out...one of these days.

voice;

[stargathering]

Yeah... For now, let's just hope for the best.

voice;

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I will.

[Voice]

[explains]

I'm afraid writing it down is your best bet.

[Voice]

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

I do write things down, but it doesn't keep everything the same.

[sparkling-by.livejournal.com]

You're already at that kind of age?

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

What kind of age?

[sparkling-by.livejournal.com]

The age at which memories start slipping. This is starting young.

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

They're not slipping! It's just...it's been a really long time since I've seen my friends.

1/2

[sparkling-by.livejournal.com]

You have frie -

[sparkling-by.livejournal.com]

...oh. Well, hold on.

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

For what?

[sparkling-by.livejournal.com]

For me to... well, understand. Don't you... have anyone here?

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

Oh...yeah. Yeah, I do.

It's not that I don't like anyone here, but I miss my friends from home, too.

I don't want to forget stuff.

[sparkling-by.livejournal.com]

Is it...still going on? Or has it stopped, or...? Maybe a doctor could - Say, you don't have anything against seeing one, right? No dark secret past revealing tattoos that could show during an examination, or alien tissue, or something like that?

[binarysky.livejournal.com]

Uh—no, I don't, but I'm not sick.

I'm not an alien.