@anonymous

[windsongs]

I have a question for the group. Has anyone tried to find family or friends they have lost over the years, or a trace that they might have passed through the Netherworld? Have you been successful?

If not, would you? What would you say to them if you managed to find them?

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[windsongs]

[ Please Bruno, dump away. It gives her something to distract herself with rather than her invasive and shadow-induced thoughts on the matter. ]

My mother. I lost her suddenly when I was a teenager. I guess you could say that I never completely got over it
There's a lot that I want to tell her, but most of all, I want to apologize for not being there to protect her

[fallingsand]

[ Oh... ]

I'm so sorry.
But you know it's a parent's job to protect their child instead, yeah?
I don't think you need to apologize.
I'm sure she would love to see you, though, if she were here or is here or
Any of that.

[windsongs]

Thank you. I'll be all right, it was a long time ago.

I know. She did everything she could to protect me from what or whoever took her life
But that won't erase the guilt that I feel for not being there with her that day
I want to apologize for that, and for not taking every opportunity that I could to spend time with her

And I want to ask her why she kept me in the dark

[fallingsand]

[ Wait, why is this beginning to sound a little familiar? Does he know this Anonymous person after all? ]

It

[ He writes that first, pauses, staring at the two letters as they accidentally send without the rest of his thoughts attacked. What can he even write in response to that? He'll think of something, eventually, and when he does, it's, ]

I wish I knew.
Moms do a lot of stuff you just never get...
Or maybe it's all parents but

[ He never got to spend any time with his dad, none that he could recall, so he wouldn't be able to say. ]

They do what they think will keep us safe and don't stop to think about how that might hurt us instead, I guess. I am sorry you haven't been able to find and ask her, though. I don't want to see my own mom here or
any of the family, actually
I don't think I would take it very well.
But it might've gone better for you. Who knows.

[windsongs]

[ Nope, they've never met in their unlives. Bruno's probably just imagining things. ]

I can understand not wanting to find her here. I feel the same way, but I have resigned myself to the fact that she is gone
I know so little about death and the afterlife, to a point that would be infuriating if I was back home
But there are some things that I need to know that would be incredibly helpful when I finally make it home

If I want to finally rest in peace, I need to take care of my unfinished business too

[fallingsand]

So your unfinished business is with your mom or
Do you mean other stuff, when you talk about finally making it home?
As like a ghost or something?

[windsongs]

I think so, yes. Ever since that day, I feel like my life has been stagnant. Not that I was just doing the motions, but that something kept me from moving forward

Trust me, I have no interest in being a ghost! Most of them are great, but when it's my time, I just want to go peacefully into whatever lies beyond the realm of the living

[fallingsand]

I guess that means you don't think we're actually dead here?

[windsongs]

That's right. Many of us don't remember dying, and what we do remember doesn't line up with what a typical "death" might look like.
I find it hard not to question whether it was our own deaths that brought us here