Hell Notes
Cherry Cliff: Guardian16/1/2019 "Hey Alice. Are you busy?"
I just dropped on her without warning while she was clearly in the middle of something. She greeted me with her usual smile. "It can wait a moment. Do you need my help with something?" "Well yeah.. It's about my realm. I think I'm missing something, maybe even something obvious. Every time I come back to it, there's hardly anything left of it, I have to start it all over. And the longer I'm away, to less of it left. What is missing?" She pulled her eyebrows together and was just staring at me for a little, as if I grew a horn on my forehead. "You are quite right, it is obvious. You must forgive me, I'm a little surprised. You, of all people, got stuck on something as simple as that. Perhaps they did took away from you much more than I imagined." "So it can be fixed?" "Fixing would imply something is broken, which is hardly the case here. Everything just as it should be, as it meant to be." "But I never seen anything like that here. Not even once I noticed anything fading in your domain. Yours is stable." "Precisely. Well, try to solve it your self. What is the main difference between your place and mine? No.. Perhaps the right question would be: what is the greatest difference between you and me?" There was thousand things I could name, but neither of those seem to have any relation to the problem. Except.. Maybe just that one main difference.. "Hmm.. Is it because you are here at all times, while I'm mostly down there?" "Indeed. You are half way there." "But you know that I can't be there at all times, not yet. So I'm stuck with constantly rotting away realm?" She start to laugh at me, which confused me even more. "Any other day I would love to play riddles with you. It is truly a joy to watch your mind trying to find a way out of every maze to find your self in. But there are far too many things waiting for my attention at this moment, so I will give you some of that cheese and I'm sure you will manage the rest." "So there is a way?" "There is always a way, if the need is there. What you create is nothing more but a dream, a memory. And memories have a habit of fading away over time, don't they? Unless! Unless you keep keep them alive by remembering, dreaming.. Or in other words - by observing. You can't be that observer at all times, so the magic answer is - you need someone else who can. You simply need a guardian." "Guarding from what?" "From decay." "Oh! I understand it now!" "Ha Ha!.. Do you now?" Her laughter did deflate my initial burst of confidence. "I think I do. More or less. At least, I think I have pretty good idea now, of the matter. I have some ideas to work with, at the very least.." "Splendid! Can't wait to hear about those next time you come by. Now off you go, I must return to my work. Be sure to tell me of your progress soon." She waved her hand, before I could even thank her, and I sunk in to fog, just to emerge in my own domain a moment later. All seemed to be clear as day. I can't be here all the time and there is nobody else who would, so that leaves me the only other choice - I have to make "somebody". And I tried. For days, but that turned out to be a whole lot harder than I imagined. I didn't want to go back to Alice, I was determined to crack this one all by my self, at least this once, even if it takes me a while. But couple days later, while I was trying to fix the unfixable, I felt presence getting closer. It was strong but not overly intimidating, someone new but somehow vaguely familiar. "Knock knock!" "Who's there?" She emerged just few steps in front of me. Someone I've never seen before - a lady of some different kind. Clothed in silk, red hair dancing in the breeze, and that strange mask. But she feels familiar, even if there's no memory attached to that feeling. "A friend." "I didn't know I still had any of those left." "Now, now. We are almost family and family never forget their own. At least we didn't. We know you went through a lot, things were taken, memories were lost." "Happens, I guess." "Not very often, at least not what happened to you.. But it'll all come back to you in time. But I'm not here to talk about the past. We've been watching you and we know you could use a helping hand. I brought someone here - one of ours. She will help you, if that's okay with you?" "Okay.." "Fabulous! Have fun you two then." "What? Wait.. ...And she's gone." I'm left standing there alone with my confusion. Almost alone. There's now two little red eyes staring at me. "I guess, make your self at home then."
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Shadow
17/1/2019 09:41:17
So cute!!
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