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OOC: If your wondering why I haven't updated in a bit it's not cause of anything it's cause Umineko currently has a vice grip on my soul. Really sorry about that. The onset of a new fixation might take me away for a bit I'll get back to the kids I promise just give me a few moments to ride it out.

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Part of You me again- earlier speakers were right your name is a mouthful and a few characters too long to type. Since you seem to be looking over and protective of Amane here- would it be fine if I referred to you as Guard or Guard-san? - Gunsli

Hm...

This might be strange to say but name like that feels rather poisonous? If that makes sense to you.

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Hey, Part of You. What do you think of Es? Since you've been here from the beginning... What do you think of their journey and ours?- Gunsli

Oh? Hm. I don't think I have much of an opinion. Their just Es. I would have been fine seeing any sort of journey, but I'm happy they tried to be kind to her.

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Good evening,

Can we play on the cat tree for seven minutes? I think that would be fun. Also, something may be on it.

Sincerely,

Gunsli

....

Well.

A small look would be acceptable.

She walks towards it. Looking all over it. She's actually too big for it so she has to be careful not to unbalance it as she searches for anything that could possible be on it. But it seems like there's nothing at all.

Though she did find this ball of yarn inside of it.

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Are there any windows here? Is it heard something outside? Urgh, we can't hang out eternity here, and I agree, the completely beige room is terrible aesthetically >_<

She's glad you all agree that this room being all beige is a horrible awful choice. She's going to kill whoever designed this place. She can already feel the remenats of her sanity leave her body as she exists in this room.

...

And also there's no windows.

There is no reprieve at all.

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Good evening,

It's evening where I am! What time is it for you? It seems you've been locked in this room. Though given what happened when you fell maybe you don't have to be trapped. Is there a small opening anywhere that you may be able to squeeze through. Or does the door they locked have a keyhole on the inside as well perhaps?

What's the room like?

Sincerely,

Gunsli

The room is actually rather pleasant. Soft carpeting. A big bed. There was even a surprisingly large cat tree and scratching post in the corner...

Not-

Not that she would ever use those.

She gently scratches her hand. Still the room isn't perfect. For some reason the designers thought it would be a good idea to make everything the same color of beige. A design choice that she doesn't appreciate at all.

The door on the other hand seems like a normal door. She tries to squeeze through it but an invisible force seems to stop her. No matter how hard she tries to force herself out.

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*tugs on Amane's cat ears lightly* Do you actually hear out of these is there another of set of ears beneath your hair. Do they move like regular cat ears??? *boops her nose*

She falls off the wall, parts of her still sticking to it before getting reabsorbed into herself. "I wish I didn't hear out of them at this moment..." She stands up. Looking around where she landed.

It's...

Just more doors.

She sighs. Putting her hand on another door, hoping that it'll let her out but instead it's just.

Another Hallway

With more doors.

She opens another. Same situation. She's opening doors but going nowhere. Is it the same hallway? A different one? Does it really matter? She's not Going Anywhere, she's just-

"Hello, ma'am, sir, cat." Someone says. Tapping on her shoulder. "I'm sorry, but could you please return to your room?" ... "What?" "Uh-" The employee(?)'s head tilts downwards before shooting back up to look at her. "Have you...not been assigned a room? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear- here take this!" She shoves a key into her hands, and she wonders for a moment if this could be another key for that door, but it doesn't seem like one that could fit into the locks on it.

Actually it doesn't seem like a key that could fit into Any of the doors presented to her or any door that could exist. It seems too misshapen and badly made for it to work for it's intended purpose.

"My...apologies, however I believe you have mistaken me for-" Amane tries to communicate, before the employee pushes her towards a door. Completely ignoring her words.

"I'm sorry but you have to wait here for now! They won't see anyone till she's ready! And I would be in trouble if you were allowed to roam around any more than you already have!"

Before she could protest further the employee takes a Different Key and rams it into the lock. Opening the door, and causing her to fall inside of the room. The click she hears signifying that she is now locked in for the time being.

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Good day,

It's quite rude to ignore others or keep them waiting. Es is waiting for you- I think we both knkw this. I think...perhaps you didn't rip up their hat. Maybe some part of you wanted to return it to them just a bit. If what I'm supposing is the case then keeping it around would be painful.

Though maybe you didn't have the strength to destroy it. In case like that I'd throw it out. Are you sure you don't want to get it now? Or if I'm wrong show me it's torn remains just like you did with... Well, I'm certain you remember. I'm sorry for riling you up to that extent... Is- Is your head alright? Did you get injured from any of that?

I know this is selfish of me. But if you could muster it I'd really appreciate if we could inspect that door you opened together.

- Gunsli

Considering it is Your Fault she is in this situation she finds that selfishness to be frankly. Annoying. Your continued insistence at pushing into her problems to be upsetting. And-

She slams head first into a wall.

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Good day,

At least, I hope it’s a good day when you receive this. I haven’t caught up to current events as of yet. I’ll be going over them as I write this letter. Time is funny isn’t it. From my perspective it’s been a good while since I’ve heard even the smallest of noise from this place.

At a glance it seems as though many things have changed since I was last aware of this place. Yet, you’re always aware of it, huh? From your words- You’ve been stuck in this place for a long time. A time that’s impossible to measure. It makes sense, I mean there’s no clocks or the sun see rise and set. Still, the passage of can be felt just the same.

Sometimes it can drag even more when those things aren’t present.

Amane do you know about “Part of You” the one who narrates? Can you hear that person or is that just us? I wonder if this songwill be familiar to that person? You said Es left you after all, but is that the most honest description of their actions?

They left in an attempt to help you did they not?

Are not the same Amane who asked them, “…Are you still worried about me?” Do you not remember the lives you’ve lived. That can’t be the case can it? You said it yourself, “Sometimes people kill me and are happy with it. The world does not end then.”

If you’ve even remembered those times. Then surely you remember the one’s with Es as well. The efforts they put forth over and over again.

The times they tried to help and you rebuked them- How you were shocked by them still being outside when they shouldn’t have been because all the people who made them up had woken up? The upset you felt when you were told they’d come back certain that they must kill the thing in the basement? Your own hesitation before consuming them?

Do you not remember saying these words to them, “…Why do you come back for me still? All I’ve done to you is harm…so why do you continue to do so… I don’t understand…I don’t…..”

Do you not remember the thing they gave you- You said you had nothing out there before. Es gave you something out there.

“I’ll stop.” Es says. “I won’t come back here ever again! You just have to do one thing for me.”

“…What?”

“I want you give me back my hat.”

And you said they couldn’t get out of here because they were made of him. You said it was impossible and even if they did that you had no reason to do anything they said.

Specifically, to “Part of You” whose body is this exactly?

Now, pardon my rudeness Amane… But- why are you waiting for people to ask you what you want to do? Why don’t you just do it? If you want to go back to when god was there so badly why were you just waiting there with their remains. If you still want that why not try to find the keys to that door?

Isn’t it blasphemous to use god as an excuse for complacency. No wonder god isn’t coming back. Do you really want god to return or just your convenient excuse back? If you really wanted to know all the things that happened why not ask instead of denying everything outright.

Haven't you just been running away from things this whole time?

Sincerely,

Gunsli

...

"Shut up...." Amane mutters. Trying to ignore your voice. She doesn't have to listen to you. Actually she's been very good at ignoring you up to this point! So, she will continue to=

Amane swings wildly at you. At the empty space in front of her. But there's nothing at all for there for her to hurt.

Until, of course, something does break.

A door. A very normal door. Maybe even the most normal feeling door in this place.

That's...fine isn't it?

She places a hand to her head. Feeling strangely...hurt.

And then she gets sucked into whatever room that door leads to.

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...are you giving up?

...No.

Amane brings her blanket tighter around her. Feeling more suffocated than she should be at the moment.

She's not really giving up.

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Is self-destroying that fun?

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Amane, when the hero left, what changes did you notice with the voices?

(Nope, totally didn't ask to punt Amane a moment ago)

Changes?

You disappeared.

She was alone.

Again.

That's all that she knows.

Not that it matters at this point.

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...Are we real?

Are you expecting her to say none of this is real? She very honestly doesn't know anymore.

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OOC: pfft- well she'll love to know this indeed.

Can we punt Es Quest Amane?

No middle ground. Either decide or not. This has no ramifications in story other than Amane maybe hearing about it, it would just be funny

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Can we punt Es Quest Amane?

No middle ground. Either decide or not. This has no ramifications in story other than Amane maybe hearing about it, it would just be funny

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if you really want god back, if you really want to continue the way things were... then i for one will support you, amane. in whatever world you decide you want to build. you've been denied a choice long enough

...

Now she really feels like a brat now. You said exactly what she wanted you to say and now she's mad at you. What did she want you to do exactly? Force her into the path she already wants? That's pathetic, isn't it? She used to be able to do things on her own. What happened to that?

And then-

You're so frustrating. She hopes you know that. She hopes you know that she's completely and utterly frustrating as well. What's wrong with you? What's wrong with her? Being so indecisive, and pulling each other around like this? That's unfair to you. Your not a singular entity. She...she should be acting like one.

Why do you expect her to know? Clearly something is wrong with this world. Nothing normal is this diseased and distorted. Something happened here and she has no way of determining one way or another what happened other than trying to pursue an end that keeps on changing when she closes her eyes.

"...Es?" "Why are you asking if their here? It has just been me and you here."

...

I'm not them.

If that's what your thinking.

I'm apart of You.

And as such I was apart of them.

Something really bad must have happened to them if I exist don't you think?

That's what I think at least.

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what do you want to do?

...

The very strange thing about those words is that when people say that they don't actually mean that.

Do they?

If the words that came out of her mouth right now were "I want to go back to when god was alive" or "I want to go back to before any of this happened" people would gawk at her. Why do you want to go back to that? Doesn't you understand how horrible it is? When will you understand that we are right and you are wrong?

Of course she understands. She's always understood. Who would be stay in here for so long without understanding?

She simply doesn't think You are better than him, and she doesn't think the real world is better than any of this.

It's easy to say to someone with nowhere to go that they have a place in the world. Es was so special to her for a while for saying that they did have one, but then they revealed themselves to be just the same in the end. Words never hold any actual weight in the end. She should of known this. It was all just the same words except now she has no where to return to at all.

...

Just the same huh?

...

I wish you didn't think of them like that.