Jema'grethy: Memory Cave

[voidtreckermods]

Passengers see a vision, an instance of someone's life, before just as suddenly - they find themselves inside 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're not alone. In the cave with them is another voidtrecker; maybe someone they know well, or maybe someone they've only seen in the aisles of the train. But they are together in this cave, and they will come to find out that it was one of their memories that the other witnessed. And them, one of yours.

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: Memories can be written either in this post or over here)

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Xie'er | Buttercup

[voidtreckermods]

2nd memory

[knifewithnoname]

She had been here the first time. So when she gets a random memory, scenes through another's eyes she knows what is happening. Even if the train said it would only happen if they chose. When did the train ever keep its promises?

So she was braced for the second time and the cave after. She had no idea what he would have seen of hers and she was still processing what she had seen of his. She sat crossed legged, watching him.

[scorpionsect]

[Xie'er had been sitting crossed legged and in a meditative position when the memories hit him hard. It took a few seconds to realize what was going on and then longer to see who the memories belonged to. During the process his breathing was ragged and he tensed up. Only when the memories stopped he began to breath reguarly and used the meditative process to calm himself down. Once he was more stable, he finaly opened his eyes to stare back at Buttercup.]

I think you an I have a similiar lifestyle.

[knifewithnoname]

The first had been confusing, but understandable only with her context from the train. How family could be. He had been made someone's son. And now... this second memory built on that.

She understands loyalty, she understands rivalry. She knows why he would stab for that round piece of glass that earned him praise.

"Yes." She nodded. It seemed that way. She tilted her head. "I did be seeing a man, yesterday. He did be calling you his son and just now... you did be giving him a trinket, he did be saying it did be safer with you."

It was only fair after all. That he knew what she knew.

[scorpionsect]

[Out of habit, Xie'er reached for the trinket around his neck knowing that it was no longer there. He frowned realizing that once more. So that was what she had seen. He gave a nod confirming everything.]

You and someone that looks like you created a scene to steal crab legs? It's a food I'm not familiar with. But another man approached you and commented on the scene and seemed to praise you. He gave you food too. You protect the other girl.

[He understood all of this, having lived on the streets before his godfather took him in. He was also protective of the peopole he was close to.]

....Yufi is important to me. He took me in off the streets and gave me a purpose.

[knifewithnoname]

She did be being my sister. [She frowned slightly, trying to remember. There's many times that she stole crab legs, another man might be Taiwin? He praised them sometimes...

She doesn't like thinking about him.] What did the man be looking like? Yufi... He did be calling you his son. So he do be being your father?

[scorpionsect]

[He gave a small smile.] Family is improtant to protect...What were you two being trained for? As for the man....[He frowned as he tried to remember the memory.]

He seemed to be a fighter and wore a leather jerkin and had heavy boots. Then you guys went walking near the water and you two seem to be having fun with him. A beach? We don't have those where I'm from. Just lakes and rivers. His name is Kant?

[There was another pause as he tried to figure out how to descrie Yufi.]

He's a very proud man and always thinking and focused on some kind of plan that would help him in his big scheme of things. It's hard to earn praise from him as everything has to be perfect. He only just recently openingly called me his son. I always wanted that...but now I don't know.

[knifewithnoname]

[Kant. She sighed. Nodded and thought a bit more. Walking near the water, crabs, on the beach.

The day comes to her. That bizarre day when he had taken them to the beach. Very likely without permission. It was one of her earliest memories and it had never fit right. Strange, jarring.]

Yes he do be being Warrior Kant. [She tilted her head.] You do no be knowing? If you do be wanting it?

[scorpionsect]

Intriguing name....But if he's a warrior then what were you being trained for?

[He closed his eyes briefly frowning for a bit. He opened them again before he spoke. He appeared to be more sad then excited.]

It's complicated...I had believed in everything he did and wanted. But lately I began to learn about all the lies he used to get to where he is now. I also wonder if he truely wanted me as his son and if this was just a way to temporarily please me before he decides I'm no longer worth it.

[knifewithnoname]

To be serving our god. [Her tone was careful, her face guarded. It seemed he killed too, for this Yufi, but still. She didn't know him too well and secrets were sewn into her soul.]

That do be being how it do be being though. [She tilted her head.] You will be being his son until you do no longer be being useful to him. So you just need to be being useful for as long as possible.

[She was beginning to see another way, on this train. But from the tiny snapshot she had seen his world had been more like her own, in that way.

[scorpionsect]

[He could understand serving a god. Their people had various gods and were superstitious of spirts and demons. He gave a nod in understanding.]

I can understand serving a god. I'm trying...but how can I be useful to him now that I'm here?

[knifewithnoname]

I do no be knowing. [She's the last person to give advice. She couldn't keep herself useful and she understood her own world and culture.]

It might be being that he will just be throwing you away.

[scorpionsect]

[He gave an inward shrug and simply shook his head.] I'll do my best to not dwell on that. He always said I worried too much and over thought on things that didn't matter to the big picture.

Final memory

[knifewithnoname]

She had been dreading this all day. She knew from last time that a third would come and it would be something that brought pain. She knew what Mami had seen of her last time and she dreaded what Xie'er would see.

She didn't know him very well and though they shared a lot... of how they had been before. She was not ready...

In the end what he saw of hers, it was not so bad. Not the worst thing they could have seen.

What she saw of his...

Well. He had disobeyed and then he had been punished. The man whose affection he sought only saw him as a tool.

She could have seen that one coming.

When they arrive back in the cave she looks at him and sighs. "You did be coming here before he did be killing you?"

[scorpionsect]

[He flinched at her remark not really expecting the comment. So that's what she saw.]

Yes. While I still didn't understand his motivations for making his official son, I turned things around in the end. He didn't get what he wanted and ended up loosing everything and had to now listen to me.

[He then turned the conversation to her memory he had seen.]

Was this a failed mission of sorts?

[knifewithnoname]

[Ah. So it had not been his last memory, he had managed to turn things around. Managed to get away with not being killed, turned it in his advantage even.

Maybe he was more cunning than she gave him credit for.

She sighed and nodded.] It did be being a long time ago, I do be being better now.

[scorpionsect]

I think then that was the first time he honestly thought I was capable and everything he had thought about me was wrong. Had he truely loved me and wanted me as his son..it probably wouldn't have gone in the direction it had.

[He gave sigh of disappointment with how things went and then a nod in understanding toward Buttercupt's answer.]

Sometimes...that can happy or things get sloppy and out of control. The important thing is to learn from it and adapt to the changes. Not everything will go as planned.

[knifewithnoname]

Yes. Many things do no be going as planned. [She tilted her head.]

Did you be thinking he did be loving you? Before that?

[scorpionsect]

[Xie'er looked genuienly lost at her question.]

I don't know. Everything I've seen seems to show he simply used people even those he claimed to care about.

[knifewithnoname]

Perhaps he did only be pretending. Or he did be thinking other things did be being more important?

[scorpionsect]

I would like to think that. I've given him several chances to prove himself. But each chance said otherwise.

Did you ever wish to have a father and mother that loved you?

[knifewithnoname]

I did no be thinking about it before... [She wrinkled her nose and sighed.

It was true. Until she had come to the train she hadn't given thought to such things.]

[scorpionsect]

[He raised an eyebrow a little surprised by her statement, but then he supposed some family didn't matter. Especially if they didn't know what one was like.]

I suppose you were too busy with what you were being trained for and had a purpose then? And you had at least a sister which is still family.

I grew up on the streets before Yufi took me in. I barely knew my own mother before someone killed her and I didn't know my father. He was the closest thing I had to a parental figure.

[knifewithnoname]

Yes, we did be being busy with our training and I did no really be knowing about family and all that. [She shook her hand, not important.

But he was right, she had had her sister. Her chest hurt in that stupid way, even just seeing her in the memories... it was a lot.

But he had grown up on the streets, she had ran with street brats a lot when she was younger and it made sense, they were often recruited, taken in in exchange for work thieving and other tasks. ]

You did be believing you could be making him your father... You did be wanting to be believing it.

[scorpionsect]

[He gave a nod in understanding.]

You at least had a purpose at a younger age. I didn't gain purpose till I met Yifu. I still want to believe he does see me as his son.

[OOC: I realized I was spelling Yifu wrong in my earlier tags. It's too late to adjust, but now I have the correct spelling will proceed foreward with it. I apologize for not catching this sooner and double checking.]