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[SHAKAYA JOHANNE]

♟ But You'd Look So Much Better inside out ♟

☙ As she instinctively reached for her weapon, the Remnant boy had lunged forwards, grabbing hold of Alice and placing himself between Shakaya and her cousin. He was braced, as if he expected her to strike at any moment as she spoke.

☙ But when she did, he finally looked up at her, something having shifted in his demeanor. Something almost like fear. Both his body and voice were trembling as he denied remembering her. But there was something in the way he spoke, too. If he was afraid now, when he hadn't seemed to be afraid of her when he'd thought her a threat, that meant that there was a tiny part of him that was beginning to remember. That had to be what was frightening him. At least, that's what Shakaya hoped as she took another step closer. Her heart was aching. She didn't quite no why, but she wanted the them to recall the times she'd shared with them, the bond they'd once had, desperately. She was afraid, too.

☙ Alice was already looking in his gaze, urging him to remember as Shakaya knelt down by them. The woman spoke softly. "But you do, don't you?" Her voice was uncharacteristically gentle. Even if he hadn't actually remembered yet, she hoped that her words would help coax it out of his mind. Alice had remembered, surely he could too? "It's me, Shakaya Maryelle Johanne." She smiled just slightly. "...You and Alice were a couple, both of you just slightly older than me. I used to see you frequently. The dinners I had with you were always the best!" Her small smile changed to grin as she kept struggling to hold the Remnant's gaze.

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[Skylar "Sky" Kindles]

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[atrb=style, padding: 10px 60px 10px 10px; opacity: 0.8; text-align: left] Staring into Ali's eyes, Sky began to calm down greatly. His breath was still heavy, as if he had been running around in high altitudes, but he seemed to be calming down. "I'll... try..." He whimpered again, in response to Ali's and the woman's urges for him to remember. The woman introduced herself, and it sounded familiar as well... but... even more so faintly. He listened to her words, but they how could he trust them? She was a human after all... but why wasn't she running in fear? Why wasn't she calling for guards or the Infantry? He turned back towards Ali, his breath becoming even. He closed his eyes, after a moment of gazing into Ali's. The vivid memory of Ali's face right in front of him lingered in his mind's eye, but slowly... it began to change. It was an older woman, rather a girl that he was looking at... and instead of worried, she was smiling. He felt his heart ache as he looked at her, but who was she? Why did she look so happy? "Alice..." the words barely escaped from his lips. Alice... who was that? It was someone... very important... someone who he could never forget, but still he did not remember himself. How could he? Before the attack, he had always been himself. He had taken for granted the fact that 'he' would always be there. He never imagined that one day he would wake up and find that 'himself' was gone. He never took the time to study his own face, or to tell himself who he was. It was something he just didn't think of, because he didn't have to. To remember it now... he could only draw blanks... but maybe in time. The name Skylar had triggered something in him, though. It was his name, wasn't it? He had heard it called out to him so many times in the time before. Yes, it was familiar. "Skylar... and Alice... that was us..." He came to accept at least that much.

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