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It's during a pause in their day. A nap. An idle moment looking out from the gardens at the landscape passing by below. Taking a moment to catch their breath after a jog in one of the castle's larger magic rooms.

The squad is suddenly connected. Mental pathways locking together, they're forced into one another's innermost beings. Thrust into one another's memory palaces where the mind collects and stores everything that makes them who they are. The core of their beings are only a few steps away and no one can prevent the link.

To make matters worse, it comes with no explanation or no ability to pull out and stop. Once they're through the first memory, perhaps they can find a way out, but they're already witnessing some event from their host's past. And, if they left, who knows whether or not they'd end up accidentally invading another memory palace?

And if they were there, who was in theirs?

[ooc: So, how this works: the memories can either be viewed in spectator mode or the guest can be experiencing everything themselves. The person whose memories are being shown, the host, can watch as their current self or take the form they had of their past self. They can also be invisible until the memory is finished. They can talk about the memory with the "guest" that's visiting.

They cannot control the first memory shown, the player decides that, but they can sometimes control any other memories they'd like to show people after. Of course, there's also always the option of an extreme emotional reaction bringing up other memories unbidden.]

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The Jennifer in the memory is about nine years old, her hair is cut very short and she's wearing boy's clothes. She's locked in a cold basement, unkempt and smelly from the humidity. Sitting on a bed, she can only spend time rereading the letters that that girl slipped through that window near the ceiling.

'9 January From W to J
...Oh my poor, kind Prince.
You're worried because that man sometimes seems crazy, right? Well, don't worry.
I know where he hides that awful thing of his. So, let's run away, together.
You can leave it all to me. Everything will be all right.'

'20 January From W to J
My Prince,
Please don't worry. I'll do anything for you. Just... pledge your love for me.
That's all I ask.'

A noise distracts her from reading the last letter - not that she doesn't know it by heart by now, it has their important promise written on it. It's her, it's Wendy.

"I came, just like I promised. It looks like he went somewhere. Stay right there. I'll help you out."

While waiting for her to come, Jennifer toys with the handle of a closet and a little teddybear that was sitting on top of it falls off. Romantic as she is, she takes it as a cue to bring it with her. Once Wendy unlocks the door and retrieves Gregory's gun - his 'dangerous thing' as she calls it - she exhorts Jennifer to follow her into the rose garden.

Wendy smiles happily. She tells Jennifer that she want to make a trade, the brooch for the bear. They decide to name the bear Joshua, as that man always calls Jennifer. As for the brooch, well...Jennifer still has it after all this time.

"So, let's renew our pact."

They take each other's hands.

"Everlasting
true love
I am yours."

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Jennifer

(tw: implied kindapping)