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[alephbet]

Since my anniversary of being in the tower for a year is in three days or so...

How many other people have spent more time in the tower than in their own worlds?

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[technologic]

[Well, no point in answering since he already knows her answer, so...]

Are you all right?

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[alephbet]

Just a little sad.

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[technologic]

Yeah, I imagine you would be. Is there anything I could do?

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[alephbet]

Can we go on a date soon?

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[technologic]

[April actually pauses at that.]

You want to go on a date?

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[alephbet]

With my beautiful girlfriend.

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[technologic]

[He can probably just hear her flustering now.]

Yeah, we can go on a date! But are you sure you want to, since the towerversary is coming up?

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[alephbet]

Of course. I need something to cheer me up.

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[technologic]

I can do that! Though when would you want to go?

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[alephbet]

We've got enough food in the cafeteria for a picnic.

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[technologic]

Yeah, that's true. And I could make some things out of the food there too.

But I might wanna hide under the trees in the meadow, cause this is way hotter than what I'm used to.

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[alephbet]

It's just summer, I'm sure it's not going to be too bad...

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[technologic]

Summer back home was full of rain and wind. The sun only made an appearance about once a month.

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[alephbet]

That seems so strange.

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[technologic]

The wastelands was almost always rainy. It only stopped in the winter, and then it just changed to snow and ice.

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[attheclocktower]

[Well... interesting thing to come up just in time for one of her rare checks of the network. After a moment, she adds on a filter as well, given... well sensitive topics involved.]

I have. I think I've been here almost twice I've spent at home.

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[alephbet]

Do you still remember home clearly?

[He doesn't.]

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[attheclocktower]

[... that's the first time anyone's ever asked that, and the fact that she has to take a little bit to think about it scares her more than she would've thought.]

Parts of it. My friends. Our favorite spot. I can see it sometimes, if I go to Floor 100.

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[alephbet]

I remember my friends as well. Some battles. I traveled too much to get attached to any one place.

But other things I'm forgetting.

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[attheclocktower]

We would travel a lot too, between worlds. But my friends and I had this one place we'd come and visit each other after we were done with our missions.

[But the other worlds... places like... like the desert world... Agrabah! Yes that was it, Agrabah. Worlds like Agrabah and Halloween Town and... and all of them. Those were fuzzy.

That scared her. Her memories were all she had... and here she'd been losing them, and she'd never even realized.]

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[alephbet]

What was that like? Describe it to me.

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[attheclocktower]

[There's a bit of a delay before this reply comes in]

The place is called Twilight Town. It's called that because it always seems like it's a little while before sunset. The skies are always beautiful there, all gold and red and pink and yellow. It's really warm too, like summer.

I haven't been to a lot of towns, but it's pretty big. It's got a marketplace where people buy things, a sandlot where kids there play games and things... and lots of trains. There's trains that go all over.

But my favorite place is the Clock Tower. Every day after work, my friends and I would meet near the top of it and have sea-salt ice cream. We'd talk about all kinds of things like our work that day, things we learned, or whatever else we could think of. [There's another pause] It was some of the best times of my life.

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[alephbet]

It sounds beautiful. I'm sure, when we restore the worlds, that you'll be able to go back there someday and eat ice cream with your friends.

[He really is sure. There's no way they'll fail.]

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[attheclocktower]

[There's another long pause before she replies.]

Yeah. Hopefully.

[She knows what her future holds, after all]

Actually, there's some of the ice cream we used to eat in the cafeteria this month, around dinnertime.

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[alephbet]

Really? Maybe I'll have to try some. Ice cream doesn't keep well when you're on the road and I don't think I've ever had that kind.