PARADISA LOST

{ dictated detachedly, as if to himself }

Where is that sound coming from...?

{ quiet footsteps approaching something that makes odd, soft sounds you wouldn't associate with a person. Think of the sound of the world's smallest violin being played mixed with some kind of fabric-tearing sound; }

...that hair.

Ma'am?

{ a couple more footsteps as the noise gets a little louder }

Are you all right?



[[OOC: Gil has found Delirium~ I hope the sound works. XD;]]

He's... Gone.

I didn't really mind it. Being in a jungle, I mean.
It was kind of like back home, only warmer...

And it was... Nice. To be human.

There are still some leaves and stuff in my room. Guess I should get cleaning until the ghosts figure it out.

If anyone ever got the idea to poison sweets and send them out to you people...

Well, it'd be a lot less crowded around here, that's for sure.

{ the above is still readable if you squint and look at it sideways; below is written in slightly annoyed, larger letters }

FORGET IT.

I...

...

...

I should really be expecting things like this by now.

...

The toast is still good to eat though, right?

{ the sound of footsteps on chain-link and occasionally old, creaky wood. A couple times there's a dangerous cracking sound and once it sounds like part of the floor gives way to whatever's below. Still more footsteps before he finally stops }

...

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...Okay, I admit it.

I'm completely lost.

{ written a bit hesitantly at first }

Once upon a time, a man got lost in the woods.

There he fell into the trap of an evil wizard, who turned the man into a cat and sold him to a wicked sort of circus. There, the ringmasters forced the cat to do tricks and treated it poorly, and it started to forget that it has once been a man.

Once night, after a day's performance, the cat was approached by a man. This man was a good man, another wizard, who'd seen through the cat's appearance to the human beneath. The wizard was a kind man. He felt sorry for the cat and selflessly gave up a bit of his life to break the spell.

The cat was turned back into a man, but something hadn't gone right. The man has been a cat so long that he'd almost forgotten how to be human again. The man was cursed and confused by his newfound freedom, and so he let his feet carry him back to the one human thing he could remember: his family.

Once there, the man slowly began to remember things. He was aided by his brother, and while he was there, he met his youngest sister, a little girl that seemed to love him very much despite his strange ways.

He was still a cursed man, however, and once more he was found by the ringmasters and puppeteers. They made the man perform tricks and he only knew how to follow. Slowly, the man started to turn back into a cat.

Just when it seemed he was beyond hope, his little sister stood up to the ringmasters. When the cat could not hear her, she too, gave some of her life so that her loved one could be free. The cat was once again a man, and once again he was cursed, but...

...

Huh.

Sounds like the story just goes in circles.

I'll stop here. The ending is depressing and I don't know if I'm telling it right anyway.


[[OOC: I'll cut it if it's too long. D:]]

{ there's a cat's nondescript meowing, and the sound of a couple things being knocked over; eventually there are some ink drops on the page, followed by an inky hand print }




[[OOC: Gil's loss, day 4. ♥ Even with a cat's mind he can still have an identity crisis~]]