You open this door to find yourself in a bustling city. The smoke rising from the factories remind you of something. In your mind you grasp the memory of living in a small apartment. The smell of your mother's cooking. Your mother shredding the cilantro and green peppers. \n\n[[Walk to a nearby phone booth.]]
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Isn't it just thrilling, sitting at a desk, wired to your duties, your fingers smelling like your previous lunching, and the computer glare [[slowly|"Don't you have a job to go to?"]] blinding you every year?
She drives you to work, but in mind you're holding onto a railing and you don't want to let go, but you are being pulled in, sucked back into the [[terminal.|Bad Ending]] You accept your fate.
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There's no doubt that he's heading straight for tragedy. It will be beautiful, of course, but should he throw his whole life away as a sacrificial offering to such a [[fleeting beauty|fleeting beauty]] - like a bird in flight glimpsed from a window?\n\nYukio Mishima\n
Now you can speak louder than you have ever done before. You breathe in this island's air and you feel like your lungs are stronger, you can stand on your two feet without feeling the gravity weighing down your being. [[This is the path of healing you think.|The coral is calling you.]]
He is searching for you. He wants you to know that you will never leave his mind. You choke and feel the grip of someone's malice. But here you know, that this will never happen. That you are safe here. \n\n[[The coral is calling you. it is loud and clear, it is intimidating at first, but it promises it loves you|The coral is calling you.]].\n\n[[Drink some water, you are parched.]]
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Walk on this sand, your stepping stones, the coral island towers before you in its menacing call for a [[new child]] to [[shelter.|shelter]]
Home is calling for you. Your back is straight, your throat is open and clear as the very ocean you drank from. Do you know that you are moving on? You find the coral house, its highest point is reaching the sky, the sun on your face seems to be a smile [[you haven't seen it in a long time.|Credit]]
In this room, a distant echo calls your name. Your eyes flutter open and you find yourself in bed. But this room is unfamiliar. You stumble out of bed, your limbs are numb and the howling in your ears are mimicking the sound of a dragonfly's [[wings|Room]].\n
Her face is an assymetrical, heart shaped plane that held brown eyes. They always seem to indicate that she's holding something back. Suddenly you are reminded of [[a story she told once.|distant story she never speaks of.]]
The monotonous sequences of you sitting down every day, questioning whether you want tea or cream in that black coffee. A kiss on the cheek, a viscious cycle of wondering whether or not he is out to get you. Your lover is unaware, there are several layers to a person. Each one rots away every once and [[a while.|awhile.]]
In the evening, you are leaving the building and there is an ache in your tummy, there is a squirm in your intestine. You collect your work to go home, forgetting the static of before, the humming of your internal, hidden nature. This safari has been deforested but you seem complacent about it. You take the elevator and notice how somber the music is as you leave, realizing that you have never heard its ending. It sounds almost like the lullaby you heard as a child, you can't remember what dialect it is. When the door opens a suspicious man steps in with you and the doors closes without your approval. Soon you are fighting to live as he grips your neck. Eventually you do hear the last notes as you gasp for final uneeded [[apologies.|Credit]]
A convo is a long missed kiss. Your head feels sore. There is an undesired swell forming in the bottom of your heart.\n\n[[Ask her for a ride to her place.]]\n\n[[Get a meal first.]]
This manifests a gaping hole through the dam that contained all of your voices, all of your memories. And just when you thought that they have all escaped you, you are reminded that this is your daily flow of life. [[A secretary.]] [[A lover.]] [[What is there to escape?]]
Yes, you both share a room and have the same color mug. But do you remember what started this to begin with? [[You don't.|"Don't you have a job to go to?"]]
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This is the land where your lips have been sewn. You can not speak a word of your mother tongue. You are silent and you are on a boat. Everything is collapsing. You set your hand in this ocean that has once come from you. You drink it and see.\n\n[[A light leading to an island]].
The rug is red with a design that reminds you of a church window, it is so vast, it feels like a window to another [[world.|Room]].
Pink
"How do you forget anyone's name?" She asks, then laughs and says:\n\n[["Don't you have a job to go to?"]]
It is pink on the outside and smells like strawberry perfume, even the car seats are a [[pastel pink.|Ask her for a ride to her place.]]
You dream of being the first seed planted when the earth was created. When you are born, you thirst for growth and reach for the sun. When you are ripe, you still feel that you are not ready for [[picking.]]\n
The smell of home. A scent familiar, but it does not correlate with this place you're standing in. The [[long Persian rug]] beneath your feet and the [[scent of musty clothing]] teases your nose. You don't remember your name or the circumstances before your awakening.\n\nYou look around this room and find all the doors are closed. There's a left and a right. \n\n[[The left door. It's painted white.]]\n\n[[The right door, it's painted pink.|The right door, it's painted rose.]]\n\n\n\n
You cup the water in your hands and allow this water to slip into the crevaces of your lips, [[slowly they part.]]
And each are dying off as you realize that there is really nothing much else to do. A motherless child who was lead by the wrong hand. Don't you want to speak [[again?]]\n
Her nails too, a daily proof of the degeneration around you, everything you love seems to be [[crumbling.|Walk to a nearby phone booth.]]
You rub your hand on this door and feel the texture of it. It is smooth and polished. You wonder who would ever use such an ugly door for a bedroom. An ashy pink that reminds you of a [[beach on the late afternoon|Part two]], as the sunset departs for rest.
<h>Credits</h>\n\nXian Xian is a person. This is her first Twine game and it was created for #myfirstgamejam.
This brings you back into a restaurant, where a woman with one eyebrow smokes halos that crown your [[face.|Walk to a nearby phone booth.]] This woman makes your heart run.
You walk back to the shore and wade your fingers through the coral sea, You feel the texture of the sand between your fingers. There is something peculiar about this place. And the humming comes to [[your ear tunnels again.]]
Long ago, it has been told that you will float off to an island with your hand wading in the water. She said it was serene, you remember her face how she carressed yours. Do you miss her and the times when you weren't able to muster the strength to smile? Would you rather be with her to avoid the disappointment of being aloof?\n\n[[Yes|"Yes"]]\n[[No]]
You realize that escaping is inevitable, you find yourself in the room between the two doors again.\n\n[[Return to the island|Something strikes your memory]]\n\n[[Open the white door|The left door. It's painted white.]]
You are newly born here and your mouth is sewn with the past. Do you realize how much home formed you? It is a prison and you're in denial. A home cultivates a bundle of [[you|shelter]]
The glass walls that make up this tall box are cracked and it smells like [[cigarettes]] and sweat. The phone is yellow, its skin is [[chipped.]] You dial the first number that can come into your mind. After the dial tone you hear the voice of a woman. It's warm and welcoming.\n\n[[Send her your love.]]
After filling your tummy, you can't find anything better to do, there is nowhere to run, you sense a fear stalking the very nerves of your fingers. But you return back to the phonebooth and decide to call her again and [[Ask her for a ride to her place.]]
[[Then please wake up]]
Her eyes widen and she says "Your name? What do you mean what is your name?"\n\n [[Are you kidding me?|You ask her what is her name.]]
Before you could decide to land on your own, the gods snatch you away and peel your flesh open, exposing you to a premature [[universe|part one]].
You see her driving down the street in a [[pink Toyota]] and she whisks you away to her home. Her house is small and quaint, it feels like time has never moved further than what was left before. This house is stuck in its own century you're not familiar with. You wonder if things will ever pass. You turn to look at her [[face.]]
It is piled up in a corner of this room. The lighting is dull and you feel a twinge in your stomach as you realize these clothes are speckled with [[the blood of a being you've never met.|Room]]\n
She once claimed that there was an island, where you will find eternal peace, somewhere you go after you die or you wish to do so. You look down at her [[chipped nails.]]
Xian Xian
The paint of these nails are withering away. You realize that the memory of this story feels incomplete, your lover never told you how and where she heard of this island. For some reason you can't recall her name or yours.\n\n[[You ask her what is your name.]]\n\n[[You ask her what is her name.]]
This is <<cyclinglink "Self" "Home" "Tongue" "Are you ready to leave?" >>\n\n[[Something probes your memory|Something strikes your memory]]