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[pinkprismstaff]

You don't remember getting knocked out.

That's the best descriptor for the feeling you experience before you wake up. There's a glittering absence of color to your field of vision, and a sensation that you aren't yourself, you aren't anything in particular. Abruptly, unpleasantly, you wake up in a strange, sunny location. Where that is might vary--laying in a sun chair on the pool deck, draped over the skee-ball machine in the arcade, face down in a cart in the laundry room....or just stretched out in the long, long expanse of sand surrounding the island.

There doesn't seem to be anyone else here, aside from the others who have woken up and have as little clue where they might be as you do. It's a silent, empty island filled with a lot of questions and few clear answers. What you can conclude are a few things: that you don't get hungry or tired, that any wounds you have don't seem to either heal or worsen, and leaving the island doesn't seem to be possible.

Maybe it would be good to meet with the others who have woken up?

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[photoning]

[Ah.

Haha.

Hahahahahahaha.]

I wasn't asleep exactly, but, yeah, it happened to me all at once too. No idea why.

[compendiem]

[ haha! yeah! school elicits that sort of reaction ]

What happened to you? If you remember anything.

[photoning]

[She spends some time unsure how to phrase this. But.]

It was like a loading screen for a second. Where I was stuck in the middle of space.

[compendiem]

Huh...

[ He's trying to imagine it, but it's difficult ]

Was it all black...? With a large glowing golden thing?

[photoning]

No. It wasn't that deep. It was more like a feeling.

[compendiem]

Like... where you're falling asleep, but you're still awake?

[photoning]

Sort of.

[Hm.]

Everything here being so quiet feels that way too. Like one of those dreams where you realize after you wake up that your subconscious didn't fill in all the details.

[compendiem]

I don't usually remember my dreams, but... I get what you're saying.

[photoning]

You should try it sometime! [She's gotten pretty animated in the conversation as they're walking around with their photos of whatever.] It might seem backwards, but remembering your dreams is a great way to avoid getting caught too bad in nightmares.

[compendiem]

What if all your dreams are nightmares?

[ his life's a nightmare, his dream's a nightmare, sometimes a guy wants to be wholly unconscious for 14 hours just to get away from it all ]

[photoning]

...then it's all the more important.

If you're having nightmares all the time, it might be because when you fall asleep, you feel like you're giving up control. When you realize the patterns, it's not as scary.

[The shadow fades away from Mahiru's face.]

Oh, I don't mean to meddle, though. It's just something my friends and I talk about a lot.