Case 34

[manofgnee]

[PRIVATE TO SELF//SLIGHTLY HACKABLE]

I can't believe Doumeki's gone...

I mean...people have left before...but Doumeki was my friend. I worked for him, he let me stay with him...he meant a lot to everybody.

I dunno what's gonna happen now. Everybody is taking it hard...he's been here a while...

I should do something. Something to try and make everybody feel a little better. I just need to think of something...


...Oh my god, he left me the flower shop.

I have a shop to run now. How...How am I supposed to do that? I've only ever worked for somebody else in the retail business!! This is completely different from paranormal investigating!

I have a lot to think about...

...Here's to you, Doumeki. I'll do the best I can. Not just with the shop either, but with everybody in the apartment.

[END PRIVATE]


So....uh...I own a flower shop now!

Anybody wanna give me a hand with it? I've never run a shop before, and I promised Doumeki I'd do a good job...so I really don't know what to do yet.

Orion, you'll help me...right? I mean, we'll still do the paranormal investigating, because that's awesome and the best job in the world, but...well, having some extra money coming in couldn't hurt.

...though, I don't think Doumeki ever actually paid me...ah well, that's not the point.

You guys'll help me, and it'll be great! Any takers?

Comments

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

I guess not...It'll be hard, but new memories can be just as good as, if not better than, old ones.

...Your world must be really strange.

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

Exactly! That's a better way to look at it, hmm?

[ another giggle. oh you so funny. ]

No stranger than yours to me. Though isn't it a general principle that those that aren't technically apart of the living worlds shouldn't interfere with it?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Well, that's how I look at it with me and Orion...I shouldn't treat other people differently.

...How DOES being city dead work when people go home, anyway...

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

I assume that if they were alive before coming here, they'll be alive again. If they were already dead... Well. I don't think these deities would be so generous to put them back alive.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...this place is unfair. Giving people a taste of a second chance, only to take it away from them...

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

But do they even notice it? Hard to miss something when you don't exist.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...They would know. They'd notice.

And they'd be able to do nothing...and it's wrong.

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but then you have to think of it this way. Can something that's dead and meant to be so really be called back? Should it?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...It's been known to happen.

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

That really doesn't answer the question of "should it?" now, hmm? There could be consequences for that.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Some things have to happen for a reason. Should can't come into play in that case.

...My best friend in the whole world is dead. He's been dead for 10 years, and if he hadn't died, I probably wouldn't have met him.

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

I think you're missing my point.

And ten years? That's not really that long.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

The point is, I only met Orion because he died...and that's awful of me to say, because I wish he wasn't dead, but...

But they know. Ok? They...they just do. Trust me.

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

So what exactly are you telling me, dear? That I should desire for these deities to put me back with a working heart that isn't for show? I should beg for them to return me to where I can walk amongst the people of Shibuya and be seen?

I think not.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Well, not EVERYBODY has to come back. I mean, if they want to stay dead, that's one thing.

[ihasfeather.livejournal.com]

Wow you really are wanting those deities to go out of their way!~

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...

Look, I can't speak for everybody. All I know is that if it was me, and I was given the chance to come back only to have it taken away, I'd be pissed.