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[eternallily]

[Saki looks tired, but she's holding up okay as it stands. She doesn't much like using the network, and right now, she really doesn't like it, but it's the best way to speak to the tower as a whole. She has a book with her, and she cracks it open, beginning to read:]

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

[Anyone who knows Saki knows poetry isn't her usual style, but she's not been herself lately, to say the least.]

Is April always so cruel here? Or was this month just particularly bad?

...Kazumi, Kyoko, Mami - are you three okay?

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[eternallily]

I wish it were as simple as that. There are...I don't want to speak of them over a public venue, but there are reasons that it isn't as simple as flipping the hourglass over again.

The best way I can put it here is that a promise made long ago binds me to a certain fate, and being in this place appears to be accelerating how quickly I move towards it. There isn't anything I can do to reverse it.

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[tohko_amano]

[First, talking about an hourglass draining, and now this. Was she..someone who had made a contract, just like Kazumi had?]

..I see..I'm sorry to hear that, I really am. However..I'm sure there's some way you can break out of that fate, even if you can't see it right now. ..Since you don't want to talk about it in public, I'm going to ask this in the simplest way I can: Are you someone like Kazumi?

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[eternallily]

...since you know Kazumi, and she and I are from the same world, there's no sense hiding that we've made the same kind of contract.

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[tohko_amano]

I see..I'm sorry to hear that then. I promised her that I'd help her in any way I can, so I'll offer the same sort of promise to you.

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May I ask a favor, then?

My name is Saki. I'm a friend of Kazumi's, and as I said, we're from the same home world. If something happens to me...please keep an eye on her for me. I'm afraid that I might not be able to do so.

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[tohko_amano]

It's nice to meet you then, Saki. I'm Tohko Amano, the book girl..and don't worry! I'm sure you'll be here to help her and all of your other friends out..but, if you do vanish, I promise that I'll help her out. After all, she's a friend of mine as well.

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[eternallily]

Saki Asami...and I...I hope that's the case, Tohko-san. I truly do.

I'm trying very hard, and if there's any way to change things, then I will. But as it is...it's complicated.

[ooc: and as soon as I get this computer situation settled, there will be a post explaining why, because it's going to be a player plot.]

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[tohko_amano]

So do I..it's pretty sad and terrible when a good friend here vanishes, for both the person left behind and the person that left.

I know that it's pretty complex, but I'll try to help you as best as I can. If you don't want to tell me all the ins and outs of it, that's fine..but if you ever want to, I'm always happy to listen to the rest of it.

[ooc: Ah! I'll be looking forward to that then!]