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[ Arkady's voice has a slightly Cockney accent to it and when she speaks she sounds chipper enough. Perhaps a bit too chipper given the circumstances, but that was just the way she was. Pretending to be happy when everything inside was the opposite always just seemed easier to her. ]

'ello everyone! I had something that I thought maybe might be important to tell people. Or two somethings! I think there were three but one got lost. If I find it, I'll tell everyone again. [ She pauses for a second and then continues on ]

I tried to look out as far as I could see but when I got to the mist it just stops. It goes and goes and then there's the mist and it just... ends. [ And it really didn't feel good to feel like she was falling off the entire world. Her voice is a bit more quiet when she speaks again. ] Just like back home...[ she trails off for a second and then comes back with a more clear sounding voice. ] Something very big and very powerful would have had to happen to just make things be nothing. But what...?

[ There's another brief pause before she starts up again. ]

And also the people here! Their memories all jigsaw-y. Fragmented pieces that aren't completely put together. I don't know what it means yet. Or why. Maybe they were put together from something else? Maybe they're not from here either? Or maybe they're not real. They don't feel like the not real people where I was last. They were robo-people and they were very bad. They hurt to touch though and these people don't feel like that.

I just thought I'd share!

[ And that is where she almost ends things. But at the last second she adds something else: ]

I got a lot of fishies to cook! I'll be making things in the blue building if anyone wants to try them!

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Their names were Squall and Seifer. They had things in their heads that had some sort of powers.

[Nida is silent for a LONG while. A VERY long while.]

Squall and Seifer were there. They... Must line up with some of the memories in their heads. They were there?

[Wow. He... missed them.]

Squall was probably the Boss I remember living with. Seifer... I don't know.

He was probably! They were both very nice. Even if one tried to not seem so much. [ And then Squall had just not said that much at all. But she had gotten used to people who didn't say much at all. ]

Did you know them from where you were before?

If one didn't seem to try much to seem nice, then that's probably Seifer. Squall was more quiet, from what I know of him from school and as a CO.

So yeah, I know them from before. From home. We all grew up together. Sort of.

I liked them both though. They were both good people. Seifer found teeth in the trash once!

Sort of?

[Is he frustrated? Greatly. Nida... wishes he remembered.]

Can you... tell me about what you knew of them? I don't remember them from there.

[Nida sighs, bites his lip and continues.]

We were raised at the same orphanage.

Of course! Squall worked at a grocery store I think and Seifer worked as a garbage man. He told stories about the weird things he found. A girl that was very important to Squall was there too but she... went away. I tried to help them with memories they'd lost because of the monsters in their heads.

Hyne, the grocery store. The riot. I wonder if he was there for that. I remember being there, helping people.

[Everyone went away, hadn't they?]

Monsters in their... You me GFs. You can help with the memory consumption aspect?

Probably. He'd been there for a pretty long time from what he said.

Oh! Yes, guardian somethings, that's what they called them. I could help, yes. It wasn't pleasant for him though, I think it hurt.

I've nearly been eating by a giant creature much like a dragon. I've been poisoned, I've been stabbed, I've been burned and shocked. A bit of mental pain is nothing.

Still... Would you like to see what a Guardian Force looks like? I could introduce you to Siren.