text; super early in the morning

[bearshermark]

I can't do this. These memories need to stop. I can't.



Edit: Didn't someone ask about castles? There was also a dragon. It was not a good time.


Edit 2: No one named Erik with blue hair out here by any chance, right?

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[bearshermark]

Yeah, and 'darkspawn' is just a cultural nickname for something harmless.

[serpentinthegarden]

Since we are texting hypothetically... Any idea what that actually means?

[bearshermark]

Not unless it's literal.

[serpentinthegarden]

Do you suppose that means a Darkspawn is some sort of... demon?

[bearshermark]

I guess, if it's spawned from darkness.

[serpentinthegarden]

What else would a demon be spawned from? I'm pretty sure they don't come from Care-a-lot.

That's a rough 'memory' to have.

[bearshermark]

There sure are some layers.

But at least, if that's how I met Erik, then we definitely survived that jump. Guess these memories aren't going to be in any sort of order.

[serpentinthegarden]

That sucks.

[ Wait... Did that make sense? A second text arrives five minutes later to clarify. ]

Not the cliff thing.

[ And it doesn't help. ]

I mean having to jump off a cliff to avoid a dragon sucks too, its good you didn't die, but I meant it sucks that these memories occur out of order. Everything is confusing enough as it is.

[bearshermark]

Yeah. Guess we'll have to do the legwork if we want to keep everything straight. It's probably gonna look like one of those consprliracy walls.

[serpentinthegarden]

Maybe keep a diary instead. People think the Different are crazy enough without giving them a wall full of yarn strings, push pins and photos to stumble across.

[bearshermark]

Fair. Man, I wonder what they really do think of us.

[serpentinthegarden]

Have you ever tried telling anyone you are one of the 'Different'?

[bearshermark]

Just my mom, but uh, turns out she is too, so that was awkward.

[serpentinthegarden]

How could that be awkward? At least she would understand. She is going through the same thing you are.

[bearshermark]

It was a thing. It's worked out of course, so that's a relief. I mean she's upset it's happening to me, but.

Anyway, yeah no, I haven't been brave enough to tell any of my friends.

[serpentinthegarden]

I wouldn't. People wouldn't really understand.

[bearshermark]

I guess I wouldn't have believed it, before all this.

[serpentinthegarden]

I'm still not sure I believe it. How do we really know these are memories? They could be anything, just very real feeling stories we've heard before.

[bearshermark]

I guess it's just down to what you believe. I'm willing to believe in past lives; my first memory directly supported reincarnation. It feels right to me, even if I don't completely understand how it works. But I also haven't heard any compelling alternatives.

[serpentinthegarden]

They could be subliminal messages, weird government rays beamed straight into our heads, who knows what these Bureau guys could be experimenting with.

[bearshermark]

Yeah, that's full on conspiracy territory. We definitely need more information.

[serpentinthegarden]

Makes more sense to me than any of those memories being real.

[ He had been a snake, no THE serpent... that couldn't be real. ]

[bearshermark]

Fair enough.

There's a part of me that doesn't want them to be real, but reincarnation is my best theory right now.

[serpentinthegarden]

I never believed in reincarnation.

[bearshermark]

Yeah, it's pretty wild, but when I got a memory of Yggdrasil about the cycle of life and death, it was all I could think about.