let's backdate this to Monday, whoops. Precisely 72 hours after her last post, in fact.

[payback]

[people who care]

[Dictated levelly.]

Um. I'm back, you know, in the sense that I remember anything again. I'm... sorry if there was any confusion caused. I was under a loss, I hadn't gone home.

[Yamada]

[Ah yeah, she remembers her conversation with you, and... well, even if it was just one of those things people say just to say! She'll check in anyway.]

Hey?

[Abel]

[No hesitation here, but quietly - restrainedly - hopeful.] You're back?

[Duty done by the journal... Rin is not much of one for brooding on the roof. But somehow she felt like going up top on the castle and spending some time looking quietly out into the distance. She's just sitting right in a wall-nitch, with her feet dangling over the side, hundreds of feet above the grounds and one wrong move from falling off.

Is she worried? No. She has the Justice League ring Brainy gave her, of course, and though the air is chilly she alternates between looking quietly off into the distance and looking at her hands, turning the ring around on her fingers, which are reddening in the cold.

Open post eh.]

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Uru;

[payback]

I just wanted to let people know! And not clog up the journals... I guess I could've filtered better.

Anyway. [A pause.] It was a nice break, the loss I mean.

Rin;

[amiable]

How do you mean?

Uru;

[payback]

I mean... it was kinda nice to come fresh to things.

Rin;

[amiable]

Kind of like how we all are when we first arrive, huh?

Uru;

[payback]

Yeah. I forgot everything though, even from my life before... so it was kind of a big vacation from myself.

Rin;

[amiable]

From your world, too?

Uru;

[payback]

Yeah. From Paradisa, everything that's happened here, from home, everything that happened there, my history...

Rin;

[amiable]

History...

I'm sorry that happened, but I'm happy you're back to normal now. That sounds kind of scary...

Uru 4 ever;

[payback]

It was... but at the same time most everyone was really kind. So, I felt protected, and like I didn't really have to worry about a lot.

[And it was a relief to get away from her own self for a while. But it feels too revealing to say that! So she doesn't.]

ditto

[amiable]

[ Uru laughs softly but still pretty cheerfully. ]

It's one of the better things about Paradisa, huh? There's a lot more good than bad, so many kind people. It feels nice to know someone's always watching over you in some way!

[payback]

Yeah... haha, so it means even a girl in a big city with just her dog and nothing else can get along okay from the help of others. That's kinda comforting, right?

[amiable]

I think so! [ Heck, Jason didn't have his memories back, had stolen bread from her place, but then offered to walk her back. ] People are kinder than they might ever admit.

[payback]

[Yeah speaking of all that.] How have you been?

[amiable]

I'm doing well! [ Things have been swell lately. ]

[payback]

Yeah? Did you celebrate Christmas at home, Uru?

[amiable]

You mean back in Shiawase? [ pause. ] We didn't do gifts or anything big, just a quiet dinner together.

[payback]

I didn't even really know what it was before I came to Paradisa, so I wondered.

[amiable]

Even in modern day Japan, it's more of a holiday for couples. Everyone does something different, but I think westerners are more into it. But their celebrations are so nice.

Did you at least have a good Christmas?

oh shit I keep meaning to go backa nd give gifts on that post... but she'd have got uru something

[payback]

I was pretty surprised to get all those presents when I didn't even remember who I was! But it was fun, even without memories. What about you?

i think you did comment actually. i need to check back the meme to see myself.

[amiable]

Even with my memories I was surprised, too. [ She just... forgets people will get her stuff. ] I hope for next Christmas we get to go somewhere nice again.

maybe I did... fff I hate looking at lj now x(

[payback]

It was a good change, huh? I wonder if we'll ever go back in time. It'd be kinda fun seeing home Paradisa-style, maybe.

[amiable]

What year is it for you again?

[payback]

Second year of Tenmei... ah, that's around seventeen eighty-two I think.

[amiable]

[ lawd ]

... so long ago.

[payback]

There are things about it I really don't miss, but sometimes I'm homesick anyway.

By the way, thank you for your present.