>>5543354>>5543360>>5543367>>5543373>>5543567>>5543621>>5543674>Try to find people and events we remember to figure out what year we left and how long it has been since thenYou remember the end of the war. Could never forget when the armistice was signed either. On the seventh day of the seventh month, 1807, hostilities were officially halted and the islands were split between the two sides, an auspicious day they said. It wasn't but a few years later that you were imprisoned.
"You want to know the year?" Helga tilts her head, "If I've been keeping up with the papers, and if they've been keeping up with their calendars, then it should be the thirty-first of Edes, nineteen-thirteen. Quite an unlucky looking year, isn't it?"
>Can we recall any faces in particular from back home?You grasp for the mumbled names and vague faces of the people you knew long, long ago, but they seem to simply melt through your fingers. Ghosts of the past.
However there is one figure that seems more solid than the rest. You had a lover once, one you tried to settle into a peaceful life with. If you hold your breath, you can even hear their voice.
<span class="mu-b">Tomoe...!</span>
<span class="mu-b">This is a lovely place for a home, don't you think?</span>
<span class="mu-b">The start of something wonderful, for all of us, I can tell.</span>
>A place you can make your machines without disturbing the neighbors. Just don't keep <span class="mu-i">me</span> up with all the clanging!>I can already see you up in the trees and mountains, writing your poems and inking your canvas. I wonder, is that why you insisted on this place?>It's quite a walk down to the nearest schoolhouse. It would be wise to look into a horse or two, or even a wagon, so you aren't late to work.>Write-in 