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[paintitgray]

(radio memory)

[The memory begins softly - the unfamiliar voice of a young girl, plaintive and frightened.]

Are we...not human?

[The voice that answers is, unmistakably, Kurayami's - but calm, gentle, detached, perhaps a little melancholy at most. The tone of an authority figure.]

Nobody knows what we are. For now, we call ourselves the [

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[audio]

[seeya_next_life]

[There's a pause, and then Axel's voice is hesitant, but not exactly worried.]

... Wings?

Re: [audio]

[paintitgray]

[Wings is flashing back rather horribly to her own dream-memory of getting said appendages.]

...hnngh...

[audio]

[seeya_next_life]

Oi! Hey, are you okay? That sounded pretty gruesome, whatever it was... [Okay, maybe now he's worried.]

[audio]

[paintitgray]

[Oh, hell...she realizes belatedly that she dropped her brush. Paint on the floor. Ha. Big deal...but that voice...she reaches out to twist the radio knobs, but the transmission is over. Paint on the radio...]

...I don't know. [Pause.] Axel?

[Radio]

[inthecenterfold]

Shit, Kura-chan...

Do you recognize this? Is this a memory like the rest?

[Radio]

[paintitgray]

....yeah, I....yeah. [Pause - if she wasn't so rattled, this would never leave her mouth, but.] It happened to me...

Re: [Radio]

[inthecenterfold]

[The hamster wheel's turning, but slowly]

I'm sorry you're getting hit with this like everyone else.

[Radio]

[paintitgray]

Everyone... [Long pause.]

The broadcasts...they're all real, aren't they. Whatever happened to her, I...I was part of it...

[marrymarajade]

[He's trying not to listen in on all of these, but Ben is terrible at tuning out on-the-verge-of-tears. He listens in shamelessly, and speaks softly.]

You were there for her.

I'm sorry she's so prickly ^^;

[paintitgray]

[That jolts her out of her stupor.]

Oh, yeah, I was the acme of comfort.

[marrymarajade]

[He doesn't seem bothered.]

You didn't go. It sounds like you were doing everything you could.

[paintitgray]

[Something about his voice reminds her of someone. She can't put her finger on who, but it's...reassuring.]

There wasn't much I could do, though, was there?

[ice_echani]

...Kurayami?

[paintitgray]

Yeah?

[ice_echani]

Are you all right?

[paintitgray]

...I will be.