On Re-Apps and Things

[nottheproblem]

Just over a fortnight. It will be enough time. Even later would be sufficient.

Those... havens I did not dislike so much. It was not a terrible place and the people were good. It is a place I would like to see again, even if I have no recollection of my time there before. Yet that decision to return is not fully in my control.

Remaking history cannot be done, but compensating for it can.

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[lifescratched]

I would be glad to have you back, with or without your memories, Mother.

[nottheproblem]

Any mother is better than no mother, is what you are saying.

[lifescratched]

Regardless of what you remember, you are still yourself.

[nottheproblem]

There is a saying that with years of age, wisdom follows. You sound more wise than you are old, son.

[lifescratched]

Hm... I do not know about that. I say only what is true.

Konayuki will be happy to see you again, as well.

[nottheproblem]

You are modest. We should work on that. It is fine to think good things of yourself, but if you choose not to, I will.

[She pauses.]

I have thought of you both. And the others I knew as well.

[lifescratched]

It is also fine to know your limits... [But a part of him is proud to have earned her praise, so he won't protest too much.]

You are not unhappy to be returned to the Havens, then?

[nottheproblem]

Not at the expense of underestimating yourself. Perhaps with time I will be able to show you.

[Her head tips at his question.]

No. For it guarantees me life. It is better to have lost twenty years and live, than it is to pass without seeing your face, my son.

[lifescratched]

I am still sorry I am not the son you remember me as. But if you are happy... [Well, does it really matter?]

[nottheproblem]

You are not so different from the boy I knew. I feel with time, the past is never forgotten, but pathways for a future are what we can pave.

[She pauses.] Together.