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The holidays are close to ending and it’s time to start packing away your decorations. In a stroke of bad luck, you drop an ornament (or other small bauble) and it shatters. Inside was a strange, glistening dust that you accidentally inhale. You are immediately met with a strong hallucination of a previous holiday memory. It only lasts for a few moments, but it feels like you are back in the memory, reliving it. It seems so real but when it ends, you are back in the present with no trace of the dust left in sight. Which holiday memory did you relive, and how do you react to being torn from it?

(You can only relive a memory from a holiday in December and it must be from this lifetime. Characters who have lost civilian memories, such as in a side swap, will have a much vaguer memory. Locations and faces will be blurred and unrecognizable, and the memory will not reveal anything about their previous life. These characters may be left feeling a little hollow after the memory.



Michiko was packing away all the holiday decorations, she took the lights down first packing them away in a box and moving them to the basement of the house. She wiggled her nose and put the first box down to wipe the cobwebs out of her face she didn't go into the basement much so it was dusty. She then went back upstairs to put more lights away and then she moved on to the garlands. It was kinda sad, she had worked so hard to put everything up and now it was all over. She didn't really want to take down the decorations on the Christmas tree but it needed to be done it was a new year and she needed a fresh new start to the year.

She then put away the other various stuffed Christmas toys and decorations that she sat around the house to look cute. Packing everything carefully into a box then taking everything down to the dusty basement until next year. December would come again, it was important to her that she keep being happy in December because the cold made her sad and depressed. The fact her parents always left her home alone while they were away on business and never came home made her sad and depressed. Without her gardening what did she have? To her, it felt like almost nothing so she didn't know what else to do. She needed to figure out other things to do till spring came.

Once everything else was put away she had no choice but to start packing away the Christmas tree. She carefully put each decoration away in its spot and started taking stuff down to where it belonged. She was about halfway through when she dropped one of the blubs she didn't recognize. There was a silver dust inside and she gasped breathing it in in shock of what she had done. Suddenly she was in a memory. She was about 5 or 6 years old and it was Christmas morning she was with her parents and they were so happy together. She had gotten toys and clothes. It was the best Christmas she could remember. Before her parents started getting busy with work. Leaving her with nannies.

Leaving her alone when the memory ended she was crying it just highlighted all she had lost as she had gotten older and her parents just seemed to have stopped wanted to do stuff with her. She didn't know why money became more important to them but it wasn't what was important to her. She sighed wishing she could make them understand what was important to her. She finished packing away the Christmas things and cleaning up the memory dust careful this time not to breath anymore of it in. She didn't want to remember anything else today. She then once all the Christmas stuff was put away gathered her things so she could go out and get a cupcake and a cup of hot cocoa it was time to start a new year.