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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, NOBORI.

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<NOBORI> Hello! This is Ingo!
<NOBORI> How may I help you?

Other Handles: Wayward [anon]

Comments

<Nobori>

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Do you think that people are roughly the same without memories as they are with them?

<Composing>

[leggierissimo]

It depends on the person, honestly. But... overall, our experiences make us who we are.

If you're concerned about being different once your memories have returned, I wouldn't worry about it. The experiences you've had since losing your memories have shaped you into the person you are today. Those experiences aren't going to disappear just because you've regained what you lost.

<Nobori>

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The me from before has always felt so distant that he may as well be someone else.
It is a little frightening.
My brother says that I am still myself, but he tries far too hard to spare my feelings.

<Composing>

[leggierissimo]

That's likely because you don't have the experiences of the you from before, because you don't remember them. Therefore, the you from before feels like an entirely different person. A stranger. It's hard to equate a story to yourself when you don't remember it happening.

I'm sure that it is intimidating. However, the decision is entirely yours to make. I won't force anything on you. I'm simply here to help if you decide you want it.

<Nobori>

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No, no. Emmet deserves for me to at least try.

[His own feelings are more mixed, especially since this isn't really the same as letting them return naturally. Some part of him is afraid that he'll just be...overwritten, somehow, by the man who used to be. That the land and people he cares for so deeply now will suddenly cease to matter to him. But that's Emmet's brother. It would be terrible not to let him have that chance, wouldn't it?]

<Composing>

[leggierissimo]

So, you want to give it a shot, then?

[It certainly sounds like it, at any rate. Ingo will receive two addresses - if he looks them up, the first one is a book store in downtown Bavan. The other is the community center.]

The first address I've sent you is where I will be reliably from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday. If you can't make it during those hours and/or on those days, we can make arrangements to meet at the second address. Both are public locations that can be made private, if you have a preference.

<Nobori>

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[Yes, he...guesses he does. Ingo steels himself. He'd better.]

Very well.
I would prefer it to be private, certainly.
Though I will ask my brother if he would like to come. It will most likely be after sunset - I think he will, and he is a gargoyle now. I shall speak to him and let you know a day.

<Composing>

[leggierissimo]

Good to hear it.

I do not mind if he comes along with you. If we need to do it after sunset, the second address sounds like the way to go. It's the newly established community center.

I'll be waiting to hear from you.