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[Voice] (joining the backdating train)

[The journal picks up a bit of coughing as Emil's hand bumps it and knocks it open in his frantic search, followed by some mumbling.]

... w-wait, I think I found it.

[He coughs again, then clears his throat.]

Can anyone hear me? Fina and I... we were in my house, and... I-I think it collapsed. Please... someone help us! It's getting hard to breathe in here... please hurry!

[He sounds close to panicking as he coughs again.]

Get us out of here...

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I... Emil. I know terrible things happen here, and we lose people all the time, but if you weren't here...

If you weren't here, Emil, how much would you lose? How many people would you never get the chance to meet?

People I wouldn't meet...

[There are lots of those, too many for him to even count. But if he never met them, would he even know what he was missing? Or would he just continue on with his life back at home, blissfully unaware of all the things he could have experienced?]

But I... we won't even remember them when we go back home.

[there's a brief moment of silence, and then she lets out a sad sort of sigh]

Maybe. When I... When I went back home for that one day, I-I remembered everything. It was kind of like a dream, but I remembered it all. It might be the same for you, Emil.

You went back home for a day...?

[He hadn't known about that, and suddenly he feels like a bad friend.]

Mm. It happened a long, long time ago, only a couple of months since I'd first gotten here. I don't know why I went home, I bet it was because the barrier and things failed, but I did. Just for a day.

Luceti was like a... a dream.

But... you still remembered it, even if it was like a dream. Then that means maybe... maybe Richter will remember everything if I ever go back home...

...Maybe. I hope he does.

I hope so too--

[And then there's the loud groan of shifting wood, and a startled cry from Emil.]

E-Emil! [ohgod Usagi is going to freak out over here and shake her journal. as if it would help.]

[There's a long moment of silence before a very quiet, very frightened voice can be heard.]

... w-we're okay...

[ohgod ohgod ohgod. Usagi can't stop panicking]

Has someone... Has someone gotten to you, yet? Can you hear them? [don't die, emil. it's not very nice.]

Stahn and Sheena said they were coming, but I don't know how long it's going to take for them to get here if the rest of the ground is all messed up too.

I'm sure it won't take them very long at all, not everything was messed up. Just... Just keep positive.

The entire village isn't destroyed... right?

Nope. A lot of it was damaged, some buildings have collapsed, but things are still standing. We'll have this place up and running in a few days, I'm sure.

That's good. We... we can fix things, if it's just the buildings that were destroyed. I'm glad more people weren't hurt...

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