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► twelfth sketch [Video]

[The feed opens to the view of Olivine beach, held by its owner as she records the horizon and ocean for a while. It records silence for a few moments before the owner speaks up, sounding hesitant.]

... if you've done something wrong in the past that hurt a lot of people, and every one of them said that it was alright and that they didn't blame you...

... but... you still feel guilty over it...

... how do you go about forgiving yourself?

[There's more silence and then an audible sigh, before there's an elephant trumpet sound, and Namine giggles as a Phanpy clambers and obscures half the view of the camera.]

No, this isn't for playing. Come on.

[The feed cuts off.]

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I've been trying, Rise. But the little things I do now feel so inadequate compared to how much damage I've done.

I don't know what you did, exactly... but you can't think like that, Naminé.

... Rise, what if someone messed with your memories to the point that your memories of the person who is most important to you was replaced with someone else and you forgot .... or was somehow indirectly the cause for one of them to disappear... or even the cause of a friend to forget about you.... and that when they tried to fix it, it only caused more trouble? How would you feel?

[Her life.]

... [ wow. There's a long pause, because Rise can't just say "bad", and be done with it. ]

I guess... more than anything, I'd want to know why.

A part of the reason was that they were kind of selfish. They knew what was right and wrong, but chose to do it out of fear and loneliness.

[It's the truth.]

And the rest of the reason?

.. they were ordered to do it. But that doesn't excuse them.

It doesn't... but if they didn't have a choice, I can't really be mad, either.

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