It's Not Paranoia...
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 12785
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"Nat," Stacy said, "that first morning when you left me alone, I was
watching television, and I saw this documentary on 'Moon Madness' or
something, and they showed a clip of the full moon rising. I don't know
why, but my heart started to race, and I had to turn it off because it
almost made me ill. I've also got this scroll with this woman named
Anastasia who looks like me changing into a werewolf or something, and
last night I dreamed about her. I dreamed I was her, and these villagers
were chasing me just as the moon was rising, and when I woke up, I felt
just like I had when I saw that documentary. My journal from before I lost
my memory was written as a letter to myself, and it told me to watch out
for the full moon. All my research seems to center around it, too. Nat,
what does this mean?" Natalia sighed. "I was afraid of this." "What? What do you mean, Nat?" Natalia clasped Stacy's hand, and spoke. "Stacy, before your latest memory lapse, you were very paranoid, or at least I'd hoped it was paranoia. Certainly, though, it was a little justified. Still, before I decided I needed to be there for you, you were pretty out there. You were obsessed with the moon, and with medieval history. You even learned Medieval French, and were looking into getting some original manuscripts, for some reason. I remember talking to you on the phone. You were hysterical, afraid you might be a werewolf. I thought you were losing your mind, and that scared me, but now what scares me is the thought that there was some basis to it all." Natalia clasped Stacy to her as a single tear rolled down her cheek. "But one thing's for sure, Stacy. No matter what happens tomorrow night, I'll be there for you..." It gets harder with each lie. It shouldn't, though. I'm used to lying. But bit by bit the fabrication grows, and against all odds it's tearing me apart. I certainly didn't plan on this. It was going to be simple. I'd gain her trust by pretending to be her childhood friend, and thus I could reap the benefits of the work Myer and the Thothmes Society had done. Easy enough. But I hadn't planned on having feelings for her. I hadn't planned on falling in love with her. And so it gets harder and harder... And I don't even know if she'd accept me...if she's that way... As Stacy laid her head against Natalia's shoulder, trembling slightly, she was aware of that strange intimacy again, and finally spoke up. "Nat?" "Yes, Stacy?" "I know this is kind of personal, but I can't help but feel something like this, and I'm not sure what I'm feeling here. I need to know this, though. Before I lost my memory, exactly what kind of relationship did we have?"
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