[Video/Action for Violet City] Sept 20th

[eclipse_of_time]

Oh my!

[Ming is down by the water in Violet City, looking very cheerful and flushed. Her Lapras is visible in the water behind her.]

I feel particularly wonderful this afternoon! Violet City's just lovely, really, we've been having a delightful time! Except for my Hoothoot, but I don't think he's ever happy. I acquired him accidentally - I tried to set him free, but he wouldn't go! He didn't even like the aerial show. One would imagine he'd enjoy that.

But I'm feeling terribly social. I haven't the faintest idea what's come over me!

[Violet City's locally made 'grape juice' is what's come over her.]

Oh! Tell me about your adventures in this world? I'd love to hear them. I adore a good adventure!

Comments

action

[eclipse_of_time]

It really is a pity, isn't it? All of this it's...well, it's out of time, it's out of reality. Why, that's both frightening and freeing, don't you think?

[It's been impressed on her that she won't remember any of this when she returns to her world, where time hasn't moved at all.]

action

[ifwishesweremustangs]

It's more of a relief than anything. I have important work to do in Amestris, and vanishing for an indefinite period of time would completely ruin my plans.

[He really wants to hold onto the idea that he will go right back to the moment he was taken from. Even if he doesn't remember all of this, he'll enjoy it while he can.

Roy leans back to stare up at the sky. He hasn't been able to relax like this in years.]

action

[eclipse_of_time]

But when you return to that work, you won't remember any of this. It is freeing, in a way, but also that's frightening to think. All of this - this lovely afternoon, say - will all be gone as though it never happened.

[That's a sad thought. She won't even be able to tell anyone back home of her adventures here.]

action

[ifwishesweremustangs]

If there has to be a price for this... then that seems equivalent. I can't think of anything else I'd give up in exchange.

[Everything has a price after all.]

action

[eclipse_of_time]

Balance, I suppose. And maybe a natural effect of traveling between certain worlds. I lost my memories of my first world, when I came to the world I call my home now.

[But could a price really be asked, for something they'd never wanted to purchase in the first place? Ming isn't certain it's fair, in the universal sense.]

action

[ifwishesweremustangs]

[That gets Roy's curiosity.]

Really? That's something to consider.

But if losing your memories is the price of travel between worlds, why do we remember our homes when we come here? Unless whatever's bringing us here is paying the toll for us, but we have to pay it when we return.

[He's thinking out loud now. Maybe some things in this world can make sense.]