[ Minako can almost feel it - the desire to live, strangling and all consuming, before it practically gets snuffed out in an instant.
'you couldn't know,' she wants to say to that younger, unscarred 45, 'it's not your fault' - but that's impossible now. she's not here, is she? there's just this 45, who's had to carry the weight of surviving, all this time. ]
[ it takes a moment to reorient, shunting orphaned processes to the side and cutting off access to various files in memory and reprioritizing current intake from external sensors.
(her cloud's a mess, she knows, the delays in her processing getting to the point where it's starting to be noticeable again despite the ways she compensates.) ]
[ she waits, while 45 gathers herself. two years, huh...? ]
Is it longer than it feels, or the other way around?
[ do the days stretch on, leaving 45 wondering how it could only be two years? or are the memories so fresh that sometimes, she looks around, wondering how it could only be two years? ]
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Date: 2020-07-18 08:01 am (UTC)'you couldn't know,' she wants to say to that younger, unscarred 45, 'it's not your fault' - but that's impossible now. she's not here, is she? there's just this 45, who's had to carry the weight of surviving, all this time. ]
... How long ago was that for you?
[ how long have you been suffering, she wonders ]
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Date: 2020-07-19 07:00 pm (UTC)(her cloud's a mess, she knows, the delays in her processing getting to the point where it's starting to be noticeable again despite the ways she compensates.) ]
... Two years? Something like that.
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Date: 2020-07-26 04:51 am (UTC)Is it longer than it feels, or the other way around?
[ do the days stretch on, leaving 45 wondering how it could only be two years? or are the memories so fresh that sometimes, she looks around, wondering how it could only be two years? ]
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Date: 2020-07-26 05:30 am (UTC)echoes from someone who doesn't exist anymore. deprioritize, suspend. ]
I don't keep particularly close track of how much time's passed, so I'm not sure how to answer this question.
[ she's simply kept herself very busy since then. ]