Memory Cave

[voidtreckermods]

After the passengers see a glimpse of a life that is not their own they appear in a cave. It is light, a strange moss glowing on the walls and ceiling illuminates the cave nicely and it is large enough for them to pace around in without trouble.

They are not alone. In the cave with them is another voidtrecker. Maybe someone they know well, maybe someone they have only seen in the aisles of the train. But they are together in this cave together.

The cave has no exit, at least not yet. They know that it will, eventually. When the time is right.

But for that time to come, they first must talk...

(OOC: For reference: memories!)

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[longforgottenpromise]

He was silent for a moment. Because he had felt things, in her memory. There had been feelings. But he doesn't want to argue with her. Not about what she does or doesn't feel.

"Um... Have you never been happy? Sad? Scared? Angry?"

[nobodys_puppet]

This again. "Scared isn't a feeling. Even animals can be scared."

[longforgottenpromise]

He tilts his head, "Are you saying animals don't have emotions?"

[nobodys_puppet]

"Animals have emotions....?" She was confused again.

[longforgottenpromise]

"Yes." He nodded, looking at her steadily. "We do."

[nobodys_puppet]

"But how do animals..." Wait. What? "We?" Huh?

[longforgottenpromise]

"I am a kirin." He repeats, "It is a type of animal."

And he had feelings, as did other animals. They might not be the same as human emotions but every creature had feelings.

[nobodys_puppet]

"I... don't know what that is. So you're not a person either?" she asked, surprised. She wasn't the only one?

[longforgottenpromise]

"I'm not human." He agreed, he was a person. As was she. But that's... more complicated then he knows how to explain right now. It's the sort of thing he wants to speak with Lea about, to learn how to explain things to her in a way that won't further confuse or upset her.

"A kirin is a beast, it looks like a horse if you know what one of those are, but it has a horn on its head."

As I face palm.

[nobodys_puppet]

She shook her head, trying to remember if she knew what a horse looked like, but she couldn't recall any images at the moment. "I didn't know you weren't a person either. How were you made?"

[longforgottenpromise]

"I was grown on a tree." He told her simply, "In the middle of my world on a mountain called Mount Hou there is a tree. There are twelve kingdoms and each has a kirin to serve to king or queen, when a kirin dies a new one brows in an egg fruit on that tree."

[nobodys_puppet]

And with that he has just guaranteed she will be confused about eggs, fruits, and trees for the foreseeable.

"And you have no hearts?"

[longforgottenpromise]

He tilted his head, "Do animals not have hearts in your world?"

He is trying to understand, but it is difficult.

[nobodys_puppet]

"I don't know if I've ever seen one..." she said with a shrug.

[longforgottenpromise]

"You've never seen an animal?"

He blinked, looking even more confused. He had guessed from her memories and her words that she lived a very different life. But to not even have seen an animal... There were animals on the train.

[nobodys_puppet]

"How would I know one if I saw it?"

[longforgottenpromise]

"Um..."

How does he even answer that. "I guess... When we are out of here I will find an animal to show you."

He doesn't quite count in that regard, because he looks human at least, but he could introduce her to Gyōkō, the timid Jerboa wouldn't mind someone like Xion who is quiet and gentle.

[nobodys_puppet]

"But you said you are one, and I am seeing you...."

She is trying. In more than one sense of the world.

[longforgottenpromise]

"That's true... So I guess I am the first animal you have met."

Somehow, he doesn't understand how. He's so confused.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Alright." Which still didn't tell her if animals had hearts, if they were people, or how to know one when she saw one...

[longforgottenpromise]

He looked down. Falling silent again. Not sure what to say, how to make her not confused or worried.

[nobodys_puppet]

"What... happens now?" Confused was a given, sorry, Taiki.

[longforgottenpromise]

"I don't know..." He looked at her sadly, "I don't really know what we are supposed to do."

Talk. But talking was not easy.

[nobodys_puppet]

She shrugged, because of course she didn't know either.

[longforgottenpromise]

He looked up at her to see her shrug, and the door open behind her.

"Oh." He nodded, "I think we can leave."

Only one door this time though.