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[fuckyou_chorus]

[ everything seems really dark today in camp.

but there are a lot of glowing butterflies around... ]

(approach the butterflies, receive ghosts; memories of... less happy times. others can see them, too.
touch the butterflies, temporarily lose your memory.)

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[emergencyration]

[doesn't think anything of them until he walks past a small group, and then suddenly he sees himself as a small child, surrounded by other children throwing rocks at him and calling him a liar]

[actualizedname]

[you want to watch my mother fall to her death? TOO BAD.]

You're not a liar.

[emergencyration]

[sucks in a sharp breath]

--Hope.

[actualizedname]

You're not. Just because they were cruel doesn't mean they were right, okay?

[he is pointedly not looking at his own.]

[emergencyration]

[ . . . They weren't right, then, but . . . now it's all I seem to do. ]

A-ah.

[actualizedname]

Even if you had told a lie, that's definitely no reason to throw rocks at someone. They were just being cruel.

[emergencyration]

[n-nods, glancing at Hope's memory before quickly looking away]

Thank you.

[actualizedname]

No problem. You're a good person.

[his gaze follows Natsume's until he realises where it's going and then it snaps away from it.]

[emergencyration]

. . . I'm sorry.

[actualizedname]

For what? Mom?

[he sighs]

It's not your fault.

[emergencyration]

No, but . . . my parents both died when I was young. So . . . I can understand.

[actualizedname]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[emergencyration]

. . . Mm.

[actualizedname]

It was bad enough when mom died. I can't imagine what it'd be like for both.

[emergencyration]

The people I live with are very nice, though.

[actualizedname]

They're not family?