► twelfth sketch [Video]

[memorychains]

[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.]

Comments

[Audio]

[dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com]

What did you do?

[Audio]

[cagedstar.livejournal.com]

I made a mistake that caused a chain of even worse events to follow.

[Audio]

[dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com]

I gathered that much.

I want to know what you did, not what sort of thing you did. It may be subjective.

[Audio]

[cagedstar.livejournal.com]

I... you could say, it was near to manipulating someone.

[Or something. As in memories.]

It's complicated to explain but... afterwards, when I tried to fix it, it caused trouble for another set of people. And further on.

[You won't get much beyond that. She's still ashamed of it.]

[Audio]

[dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com]

Manipulation? That's something that everyone does at some point or another, isn't it?

[In other words... L's really not under the impression that much at all is wrong with it.]

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[cagedstar.livejournal.com]

... w-what? But it's something horrible...!

[Audio]

[dead-black-eyes.livejournal.com]

What? Why?