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[cold_dry_pieces]

Last month was certainly interesting, to the extent that I can remember it. I guess it figures, as soon as you get used to the way things work, they have to change. The slugs were a little too long-lasting to count as a curse, right?

Out of curiosity, does anyone remember what they were doing up on the mountain?

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[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

I couldn't say. I wasn't paying that close attention.

[cold_dry_pieces]

You weren't up there digging, were you?

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

No, I was at home.

[cold_dry_pieces]

I'm glad you managed to escape it.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

So am I.

[cold_dry_pieces]

How've you been otherwise?

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

I have two friends that no longer remember me. Other than that, I suppose I've been doing well.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Wow, that's tough. Any idea why? I mean, did they go home and come back?

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

Ken did. I'm not sure what happened to Angela.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Angela Montenegro? I think it has to do with the aftermath of the whole... parasite thing, possibly.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

Everyone else seems to have recovered.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Yeah, I know... She didn't remember a mutual acquaintance of ours either, though.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

Do you have any idea what may have happened?

[cold_dry_pieces]

For some reason the parasite damaged her more than most people? Maybe she had one longer, or maybe there was something significant about hers. I couldn't say.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

Now I know how people felt when I returned with no memory.

Well, my friends at least.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Not a fun situation on either side.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

No, it really isn't.

[cold_dry_pieces]

How much did you find out, about what you didn't remember?

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

What was in my journal and what I'd left written offline, the public journals of the people I could see I talked to over the Network. I was able to piece together relationships, names and many faces, but I never recovered any memories.

[cold_dry_pieces]

You know, I never really tried, aside from trying to... connect, or reconnect I guess, with people who claimed to know me. I found it too eerie.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

When I came back... the reactions I received were mixed. I needed to know.

[cold_dry_pieces]

I understand what you mean.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

Have you done the same?

[cold_dry_pieces]

Of course.

I just try not to think about it.

[cry-reaper.livejournal.com]

Oh.