VIDEO - 001 | Backdated to the 10th

[unitas]

[ The video comes in clear. The young woman (young woman, she scoffs) leans her head against the wall behind her. There's a painting there, a mural of a mother and a daughter, wrapped in together in dwindling sunlight. Not many people know of this place and maybe that's why it's one of the first places she goes. First, her mother. Then, her father.

She's no lucky charm, it seems.

There's evidence that she's younger, no dark circles, lighter hair and less and dark root. She's exhausted, physically and mentally and the ash from the Otherworld still sticks to her skin.

She could bitch. She could moan. She could cry (she did). ]

So, did I miss much? [ The most obvious change to the contact list is that it now states SHARON DA SILVA instead of HEATHER MASON. She's not Heather. She doesn't need to be anymore. ]

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[unitas]

You're too happy for this place, you know that? [ It's like opening the curtains in a room that's been dark for too long. She appreciates it, if she's honest, because everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. ]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ He laughs, and the delight is still there. He's missed her facetious humor. ] I wish I were too happy for this place.

I know only one other person who came back after going out through the Door. Did you return to your own world? Are you well?

And I see that your other friends have already told you what has occurred since you've been gone.

[unitas]

[ Sharon is certain he is. Brighter than Delight even. ]

I–Yeah, I went home and I... I finished what I started there. And maybe made the worst mistake I could have ever made. [ Leaving Christopher like that, leaving her father. She's still Sharon, though that dark, deep hatred Alessa held onto lives in her now, so her merge didn't end her love for him.

She'd just wanted to be free for once and it was... it was her first time to finally walk away, to get away from the Order and all that it stood for. To let the memories of the horrors she'd endured there wash away as she got into semi with Vincent. ]

But I'm all right. I can make things right if I ever return home but I'm kind of glad to be back, to see everyone... [ The rare glimpse into that lonely girl she hides so well and so often. Back home, she had Vincent. Here, she had... she had more than just a handful of friends. ]