Text

[jasminebloominginshadow]

So, um.

I had another memory.

Okay, I should be honest. I had an echo last week when that Annie girl talked about the "Precure".

It wasn't about anything specific event, but... more a memory of something they were up against? Err, someone, I don't know how to put it exactly.

They were called the "Desert Apostles".

Sorry I didn't say anything... I've been having trouble figuring out how to process this...

Comments

Text

[sun_sun]

desert apostles huh
sounds creepy

text

[jasminebloominginshadow]

... yeah.

I don't suppose they ring any bells for you?

[sun_sun]

not really but it makes me think
like
what IS an apostle
like I know there were Jesus's twelve guys
but im pretty sure youre not talking about them

[text]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

...

Yeah. I'm definitely not talking about them.

Look, they wanted to do something to the earth... maybe it was desert related. They're "apostles" to the desert, like... they're loyal to the desert.

... God that sounds really stupid. But you get my point, right?

[sun_sun]

so like
Jesus + 12 apostles = deserts + these guys

[that is not how you notate an analogy Annie.]

that sounds pretty messed up

text;

[jasminebloominginshadow]

... Yeah well

What about this isn't messed up?

[sun_sun]

yeah ok good point

[jasminebloominginshadow]

But... why don't you know about it? That's what gets me.

I mean, if these "Precure" fought them...

[Text | Handwritten]

[scramasax]

I think that I appreciate that you do want to share your echoes... Although I understand that some would not be comfortable to share, I wish that people did so more often. [His opinion doesn't count for an immense amount - hopes he's not being presumptuous writing this; it's well meant.] ... What did the Desert Apostles do, if I can ask?

[Partly to put something a little more meaningful to this response and partly out of plain passing innocent curiosity.]

[Text]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Yeah... well, it wasn't easy to come forward with this, considering I'm the only one who seems to be recalling the bad guys.

[Text]

[scramasax]

You do not think that the reason that you're the first one who has is your fault... Do you?

[Text]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

What? No!

I just... I wonder why there's no heroics or whatever in my story...

[Text]

[scramasax]

That may change... We do often only learn pieces of things at a time.

[Text]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

Yeah, I know, but both of my echoes have been... kind of shit, to be honest.

Private to phone. You know, like a phone call.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Ring, ring. Pick up, your big sister just had an echo.]

[voice]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

[Jasmine picks up in short order... background noise indicates she's in a store]

Hey sis~! I'm picking up ingredients for stir fry tonight!

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[That's swell, but Lily gives a bit of an exasperated sigh.]

Desert Apostles?

[jasminebloominginshadow]

[and there's a long pause following that]

I-I'm in the store... I can't talk about that out loud...

1/2

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[Lily sighs a bit]

That's a new one, then.

You should know that came to me when I saw it...

[She bites her lip, and stops for a moment. She doesn't want to push her if she's out in public]

Hold on.

2/2; Private text;

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Why didn't you mention this? We talked during that same message, and... you didn't say anything.

I guess I didn't come to you right away about the Precure, either, though. I'm sorry. I should have.

1/2

[jasminebloominginshadow]

[oh hey, Lily hung up. That doesn't do much to help the state of mind Jasmine is in now... she ends up hurrying out of the store, leaving her groceries behind, and finding a nice curb to sit on]

text; 2/2

[jasminebloominginshadow]

I didn't tell you because it made me feel strange

like there was a sense of foreboding about it

I wasn't ready

text;

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Strange? As in how, Jasmine?

I know all of this is a lot to take in, but you know you can talk to me about anything.

text; 1/2

[jasminebloominginshadow]

It was how familiar it felt

it felt familiar to know who the bad guys were

text; 2/2 [comes about a minute later]

[jasminebloominginshadow]

I was in a TUBE in that first one

Did they make me?

Did they capture me?

I keep thinking different things!