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[heartofheaven.livejournal.com]

Characters: Tifa, Ashe, Beatrix
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: Three women experience some of their most heart-felt memories.
Location: Memoria
Date: February 1st, 1804
Warnings: This is going to be embarrassing.

It was bizarre. One second Tifa was in Lindblum, the next there was a bright light and she found herself in the open, standing on a wide, rocky plain. Her heart jumped as she recognised the airship moored in front of her. The Highwind. Tifa was so stunned that for a moment she couldn't move. This place was all too familiar. The beautiful sunset, the airship, Midgar in the distance... And this was a very particular spot indeed. That rock there, that was where she and Cloud-

She caught a movement out of the corner of her eye and turned at once. Somehow, she wasn't alone. It looked as though she was back in her own world and yet, the two women standing nearby also looking bewildered were not from home. Tifa recognised both of them vaguely from the party in Alexandria. Alexandria's famous general, Beatrix. And the lady Ashe, the woman who had recently given birth to a baby boy.

Tifa stared at them. "What...?"

That was about as coherent as she could manage for now.

[ooc: You can watch Tifa's scene here. Skip to 14:30. The PC version has slightly different dialogue, but it's basically the same.]

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[heartofheaven.livejournal.com]

Tifa recognised Alexandria too, and Ashe's words reassured her. She nodded. "That makes sense. Maybe Beatrix knows the way out..."

[wavering-blade.livejournal.com]

As she approached, Steiner asked if it was her, a question which made absolutely no sense if he had written the letter for her, but for the moment she couldn't quite bring herself to care about making sense of the odd words. He seemed perfectly pleased to see her, and the two stepped closer to one another, leaning in to kiss... and there the memory faded, and she became aware that she was in the presence not of Steiner but of two other women. She slowly shifted back to a more normal stance, cleaning her throat. The look on her face was a clear indication that the others were to say nothing about what they had just seen.

Funny, that was exactly the same place it had gotten interrupted the first time around.

[mademyresolve.livejournal.com]

Respectfully saying nothing about Beatrix's vision, Ashe chose instead to break the awkward air by posing Tifa's question.

"You say this has happened before - have you any indication of a way to leave?"

[heartofheaven.livejournal.com]

"Or where we even are?" Tifa added.

[wavering-blade.livejournal.com]

"It is..." she paused, trying to determine what she would be able to say for certain, "at least similar, if not the same, as a place known as Memoria. Though why it even exists now is a mystery, much less how we arrived inside it without our knowledge. It is possible it could be something different entirely."

"As for leaving, I may only guess." She looked at her surroundings for any possible clues. "It seems likely that someone is at the root of this. If we were to find that person we should also find answers." He voice held an air of authority, though in truth she was much less than certain of anything she was saying. It was all made of guesses, based on entirely not enough information.