Video 05 → The First Person to Make a Sleeping Beauty Joke Will Be Punched.

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[Have a very, very rumpled and bleary-eyed Ken, rubbing at his eyes with one hand as he struggles to get his Dreamberry working with the other. Triggering the video feed was not what he had in mind, but either he hasn't noticed that small detail or simply doesn't care.

[He yawns, incompletely covering his mouth with his hand, and blinks a couple of times and for some reason he's got a horrible feeling he's late for work. In fact he's got a feeling he is incredibly late for work, so late that if he was anyone else doing any other job he'd probably have been five minutes away from a pink slip. How long's he been asleep for, anyway? Don't these things have the time on them somewhe--]

... this thing working? Wait, what date's everyone else got?!

Comments

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

May 29. I take it you've been asleep for a while?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

... yeah you could say that, where'd the rest of the month go?

Does this happen a lot?

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

From what I can tell, yes.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

There ain't any way to stop it happening again, is there? I don't like knowing I could just pass out like that any second.

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

Sorry, not that I know of.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Didn't think so. Figured it couldn't hurt to ask, though.

I miss anything?

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

That depends. How long have you been out?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Uh... I'm not sure. Since the eighth, I guess? Unless I woke up for a bit or... well, I had some really weird dreams. I mean, I think they were dreams...

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

... Did those dreams include believing you'd lived here all your life?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah... yeah, actually I think they did. How'd you know?

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

Those weren't dreams.

[1/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

That actually happened? I could have sworn I was--

[2/2]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... wait. Somarium.]

--I shouldn't even be surprised, should I?

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

[Slight smile]

Probably not, no.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

So everyone got that, then? Just waking up feeling like they'd always been here? How did that happen?

[And, while we're at it, why?]

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

Just yet another one of this world's monthly occurrences, I guess.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

... yeah, I probably shouldn't read too much into it, right? More harmless than dinosaurs anyway, I guess. How've you been?

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

I've been all right. Not much has happened since then, fortunately.

[Anemone didn't kill him for forgetting her, he hasn't seen Vincent since last month, and hanging out with Minato was fun, even if Dominic wasn't himself. All things considered, life isn't too bad right now.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, that's good. So, when'd everything go back to normal then? Last thing I knew I was a cop... I mean, if that was really real.

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

About a week ago.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, with any luck we got a while off before everything goes nuts again, right? I got a friend's got a birthday soon, I... well, she could probably do with not waking up on a desert island or somesuch.