A Bit of a Journey!
Hi! I'm Emmerson Suzy (at least that's what my card says), and I've completely lost my memory! I woke up this morning with this curious little song stuck in my head, but nobody wanted to hear me sing it. I was told by this one guy, Romero, to come visit Bit and she could help me restore my memory, but when I got there, there was this other witch! She must have stepped out for a moment! And then things got really weird when another me showed up and started telling me I'm a character in a book? Crazy, right? But then things got better when I met these really friendly faces! There was this big tall one, this thin chatty one, and this fun goopy one, too! I've made so many friends! It was a really warm, happy day outside, it washed away all of the bad things that other me had said and made me feel really sunny, too!
"She seems pretty happy," the chatty one said, "I think I might like her more than the actual Emmi!"
"Ｔｈａｔ'ｓ ｒｕｄｅ," the big one said.
Hey! How does she do that?
"So what do you want to do? Should we introduce ourselves?" The chatty one said, "The name's Scriff, and my big friend here is Craggy and this is Flux."
I was too distracted singing my little song to myself, oops! "Huh, oh! Um, I didn't... I didn't catch that, I'm..."
"A bit preoccupied?" The little one said, I think she said her name was Scrim?
"A bit! I've had this song on my mind ever since I woke up!"
"Ｔｈｅ ｍａｔｈ ｃｈｅｃｋｓ ｏｕｔ, ｔｈａｔ'ｓ ｈｅｒ."
"You talk funny!" I laughed.
The big one (Crummy, maybe) put a big ol' hand on my shoulder, and it made me feel really relaxed. I love spending time with friends like this!
"A bit sleepy, I take it?" Scraw said.
"jus' hummin," I said.
This little song was so good and sweet, it was making me fall asleep! I just wanted to hum it and hum it and become so sleepy that it radiates off of me and I get to nap with all my friends. I tried to, but then I suddenly felt a tap! It was Scoop! "Oh, um... hi!" I said.
"The name's Scriff," she said.
"Scriff?"
"Yep! So what are you up to?"
"I've got this little song, I could sing it for you--"
"You don't need to!" she said.
Gosh, everyone was so adorable here! "But anyways, the song makes me feel really warm and sleepy, and I was thinking maybe we could all feel really warm and sleepy together!"
"Uh, hold on just a minute..."
"Okay!" I said as I returned to humming the song, feeling my whole body relax.
I was just barely half asleep when I felt something cold behind me. I wanted to know who was beh
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--whoa, okay, nevermind, sleepytown's missed its stop, why did I feel so alert and tingly all of a sudden, hello?
"ᑎOᗯ YOᑌ'ᐯE GOT ᑭᒪEᑎTY Oᖴ EᑎEᖇGY!"
Her font was really fun! I want a fun font! Why do I just have this font? What's going on? Why was I shaking this much?
"Let's go show you around!" Scriff said.
Sounds like a plan! I don't know why I was suddenly thinking a thousand miles a minute, even though I wasn't able to think of much, I didn't remember much of anything so instead I was thinking about how much I was thinking, which was really strange to think about because I was thinking thoughts about thinking, which was just weird, but they wanted to show me around and I was looking forward to it! Things seemed fun! Things are fun! Being me is fun! They were walking, I was walking, too! This was so easy and fun, why was that other lookalike so serious all the time? We should go back! Try to get her to loosen up and have a bit of fun for once! I just needed to... where were we now?
"Hey, um... I can't help but notice... we're somewhere different now!"
"Yeah?" Scriff said, "We were going to show you around, and there's these woods out this way that you'd love!"
"Oh! Neat!"
I was humming my song to myself, but I wanted to share it with others! I started humming as loud as I could, and I could tell it was working because they started to stare! "Um..." Scriff started.
"You want to join in too, huh?" I asked.
"Um, actually, no, I was going to... I was gonna ask if you could tone it down a little, that's a little loud."
"How about you join me, then? Maybe it's just a fun song?"
"...Would you excuse me for just a second?" Scriff said.
"Oh, sure!" I said, as Scriff caught up to her big friend.
I had another moment to be alone with my thoughts. There's not many of them, but I could show you around! I've named them all! See, Larry here is the thought I had once about humming so loud that everyone else starts humming, and then Georg over there lost the letter E somewhere but overall is thinking about how cute it is that everyone calls me Emmi! The I at the end just makes it all so much cuter! And way off in the distance is Frank, a lovely little thought about how much I want a hug! I really want a hug! If only someone would just stop and notice how huggable I was, that'd be so great! Oh, there's a new one, too! Let's call them... Felix. What's that, Felix? They're talking about me?
...Go on, little Felix, tell me more! Wait, stop right there! Let's listen in!
"--I just... I don't think this one's doing alright, y'know Craggy?"
It was Scriff!
"Ｗｈａｔ ｄｏ ｙｏｕ ｍｅａｎ?"
"When I first met Emmi, she wasn't this... I dunno, ditzy? This one's a bit on the silly side, you know?"
"ᗰᗩYᗷE ᔕᕼE ᒍᑌᔕT ᕼᗩᗪ ᗩ ᖇOᑌGᕼEᖇ TᖇIᑭ TO ᗷEIᑎG ᗯᗩᔕᕼEᗪ ᑌᑭ Oᑎ TᕼE ᗷEᗩᑕᕼ?"
"Eh, maybe, but... there's something really bothering me about her."
"Ｔｈｉｓ ｉｓｎ'ｔ ｅｖｅｎ ｈｅｒ, ｔｈｏｕｇｈ," Craggy said.
I love her font so much, it's so wide.
"I know, but... I'm just afraid she might be hurt. Maybe we should find a doctor or a cleric to bring her to."
"Ａｎｄ ｗｈａｔ ｉｆ ｔｈｅｙ ｔｅｌｌ ｕｓ ｔｈａｔ ｓｈｅ'ｓ ｎｏｔ ｈｕｒｔ, ｊｕｓｔ ｓｔｕｐｉｄ? Ｗｅ'ｒｅ ｏｕｔ ａｎ ｅｎｔｉｒｅ ｄａｙ ｏｎ ｓｏｍｅｔｈｉｎｇ Ｉ ｃｏｕｌｄ ｈａｖｅ ｔｏｌｄ ｙｏｕ."
Stupid? Felix, how could they say these things about me? I know what I need to do! I've gotta get them hooked on my song as well as I can! Everyone just needs a time-out, a moment to stop and relax. The song always relaxes me, why shouldn't it relax them?
"Boop beep beep boop," I sung quietly.
"Emmi, I--" Scriff began.
"Boop beep beep boop."
"That's, uh... hmm, that's..."
"Boop beep beep beep beep."
"That's... different."
It seems like it's working!
"Boop beep beep boop."
"Emmi, can you--"
"Boop beep beep boop."
"No, Craggy, it didn't go boop beep beep, she always did beep boop boop, this is--"
"Boop beep beep beep beep"
"Ｗａｓ ｉｔ ｂｅｅｐ ｂｏｏｐ ｂｏｏｐ?"
"Boop beep beep boop."
"Yeah, beep boop boop"
"Boop beep beep boop."
"ᗷEEᑭ ᗷOOᑭ ᗷOOᑭ ᗷEEᑭ."
"Boop beep beep beep beep."
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...I woke up slumped against a tree, and my three new friends were all also fast asleep as well. Worked like a charm! See, it's so much nicer when you get the chance to relax! I got up, looked around a quick second, and then started exploring the woods. If I got lost or just needed help, I could just sit down and start singing my song, they'll find me. As I started walking, I noticed something strange. I approached, and discovered it was a person! They had all sorts of strange questions for me, and I figured the easiest thing to do was to round up my friends and head back to get the man to that silly old witch Memmi. She'd know what to do! "Let's go!" I told them.
I headed back to where I left my friends, and nudged Scriff awake. "Um, I met this person out here, and they've got lots of questions, we should probably get them back to Memmi," I said.
"Huh... oh, oh my gosh, why does my head hurt so much? Um... yeah, we should... we should get you back home, Emmi. Flux, Craggy," she said, poking and nudging them awake, "c'mon, we should head home. We can look around some other day... what even happened, remembering feels... ugh, really difficult, almost sticky, I don't know how to describe it."
The four of us walked back home, and knocked on Memmi's door. That sad lookalike was still sitting around with three kind of weird guys in suits. "Memmi! Where is she?"
"She's in the back right now. What'd you need?" One of the suit people said, a guy with red hair.
"Oh, there was this person out in the woods asking lots of strange questions. Maybe he has amnesia like me! I wanted them to meet Memmi!"
"Let me see them," a black-haired suit man said.
I introduced the three of them to the other person I found. "This is... what did you say your name was, sir?"
"𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤. 𝐌𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤."
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