Iekahara, Mieko | Auxiliary Diary

[Nodoka Hanamura]

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NN LOG FOR: IEKAHARA MIEKO {EB3DC10C-26C8-4AF1-A305-E9ABDAAB83E8}
Log Number 007
Date/Time: April 23rd, 834 AS | 0502 Universal Time
Location: Freeport 14, Inverness System, Auxesian Space
Subject: New Dawn

I met with Will-san. He was more than amicable with me.. and we had a long discussion about life.. the world.. and me. Suffice to say.. while I hold out hope for Hanamura-sensei and the others to return - I need somewhere.. something to anchor me. Tommorow I will hail Auxesia for recruitment. I hope that.. in spite of what happened before Leviathan, that they will welcome me.. and I will find what I need to move on.

Until then.. I will do some personal honing.. and practice this guitar I acquired from a person here on the Freeport.

She begins to play a tune, music playing, her fingers strumming at the guitar with ease. As the song concludes, the feed ends.

Log

[24.04.2024 00:57:06] Yorha: Will-san, I have seen your vessel on Re-entry, please head to the following coordinates. We will be meeting at my abode in the.
[24.04.2024 00:57:12] Yorha: Kieya Woods.
[24.04.2024 00:58:05] Yorha: << [36.22102N 104.22393E] >>
[24.04.2024 00:58:09] Proctor: [The Ghoul screams through the atmosphere as it moves through the skies of Gran Canaria towards the appointed--
[24.04.2024 00:58:41] Proctor: --coordinates, snow and clouds billowing in its wake. Eventually, it finds a clearing to set down in, landing on struts.]
[24.04.2024 00:59:27] Yorha: [William is greeted by a small, wood-built home, slightly larger than a terran log cabin. Snow slowly pours from the heavens..
[24.04.2024 01:00:10] Yorha: as lights from candles flicker in the windows inside, the cabin clearly visible as the ship touches down.]
[24.04.2024 01:02:49] Proctor: [A middle-aged man emerges from the cockpit, pushing back his graying blond hair with a robotic hand. He looks about the--
[24.04.2024 01:03:28] Proctor: --clearing, before hopping down, poncho billowing atop his armored flight suit. He walks towards the cabin, approaching--
[24.04.2024 01:03:35] Proctor: --the door and giving it a tentative knock.]
[24.04.2024 01:04:47] Yorha: [As William knocks, the door is quickly unlocked. Behind the door, an eye peeks out, above it slivers of purple hair. The door-
[24.04.2024 01:05:44] Yorha: -closes, only for the sliding of a bolt lock to be heard. The door opens again to reveal Mieko, her kimono from nearly a decade
[24.04.2024 01:06:39] Yorha: ago, showing signs of unkemptness - dirt, grime and even blood upon the crimson article. Her eyes are their usual blue, but are
[24.04.2024 01:08:19] Yorha: enveloped in a sea of red skin. Her hair is ragged, barely keeping its' original form. Her face lacks the smile she once had.]
[24.04.2024 01:10:23] Proctor: [The years had not been kind to Will, either. More scars crossed his face, bags under his eyes and wrinkles in the more--
[24.04.2024 01:11:22] Proctor: --weather places showed a history of rough battles and wars. He gave a little smirk, despite it all.] Hell of a place to meet.-
[24.04.2024 01:11:34] Proctor: --I hope you're not gonna dump my body in the woods or somethin', kid.
[24.04.2024 01:12:58] Yorha: [Mieko shakes her head.] No. Honestly.. if things go poorly, I might ask you to grant me that final release, Will-san.
[24.04.2024 01:13:10] Yorha: [She gestures him inside, out of the cold.]
[24.04.2024 01:17:21] Proctor: Well, I ain't a hitman, so you can count that possibility out. [He enters, boots thunking on the creaky floor.]
[24.04.2024 01:18:08] Yorha: [She simply nods. In the back of her mind, she fears that too in death, she will be alone.] Would you like some tea..?
[24.04.2024 01:19:00] Yorha: [She closes the door, and resecures the lock. The inside of the cabin is sparse, with a small kitchen, fireplace, bed and table
[24.04.2024 01:19:47] Yorha: for dining. It's clear that care was put into the place. A picture of Hunt, as well as someone named "Marisa Kita", rest
[24.04.2024 01:20:41] Yorha: above her bed, with inline plaques reading their names, along with 'Requiescat in Pace'. She knows by now at least, that the
[24.04.2024 01:21:12] Yorha: Leviathan she knew, is dead - and that the girl who accompanied her and her partner, to Freeport 11 for the first time..
[24.04.2024 01:21:26] Yorha: was at least, long gone.]
[24.04.2024 01:22:21] Yorha: [Near her bed, pictures of her, Hanamura, her sister, and the Harpies rest - remembrance of days gone by.]
[24.04.2024 01:23:35] Proctor: [Will's eyes lingered on Hunt's picture, his smirk disappearing and becoming sullen for a few moments.] ...I think I see.
[24.04.2024 01:29:13] Yorha: [Mieko joins him.] He.. was a good friend of ours.. he even offered to be my mentor. I wanted to accept his offer but..
[24.04.2024 01:29:35] Yorha: Well.. we never saw him again after our visit to Ismara.
[24.04.2024 01:30:29] Proctor: What do you know? About... what happened?
[24.04.2024 01:31:56] Yorha: .. Nothing. I.. was going to ask, but.. the man who took his moniker - Leviathan.. well.. other than being what seemed to be
[24.04.2024 01:32:42] Yorha: a replica.. I.. also.. sort of made a great faux pas in front of him.
[24.04.2024 01:32:50] Proctor: How so?
[24.04.2024 01:33:31] Yorha: ... The Gammuians. A while back the PRIME destroyed one of them - Roku-kun.. 'AI06'. They were a kind entity who..
[24.04.2024 01:34:00] Yorha: I cared about. In the heat of the stress and depression I misspoke.. saying that the Gammuians didn't get pity from me.. when..
[24.04.2024 01:34:19] Yorha: I meant the PRIME. They chided me, rightfully so.
[24.04.2024 01:34:50] Yorha: I made myself sparse, and left from Inverness immediately after. I was both ashamed.. and miserable.
[24.04.2024 01:35:24] Yorha: Hunt-sama..[She starts to tear up.] He was someone I looked up to. And now.. I have no one..
[24.04.2024 01:35:50] Yorha: Hanamura-sensei and the others are in deep space.. Marisa-san, the one who brought us to Freeport 11 a decade ago.. is gone.
[24.04.2024 01:36:16] Yorha: All but the dead are unknown to me, but you, Will-san.
[24.04.2024 01:36:52] Yorha: In a sea of vast stars, where trillions if not.. quintillions of humans and General AI alike, populate the Sirius sector..
[24.04.2024 01:36:56] Yorha: I have never felt so alone.
[24.04.2024 01:37:00] Proctor: [Silence reigned for a few moments. He crossed his arms, taking a deep breath.] Most are dead or missing. It's... the nature--
[24.04.2024 01:37:59] Proctor: --of our lives, out in space. But eventually, new people come in to your life, if you let them. It's... a lot of heartbreak,--
[24.04.2024 01:38:33] Proctor: --holding on to the past. A lot. [He paces over to the picture of Hunt.] And sometimes, it holds -you-.
[24.04.2024 01:39:22] Yorha: [Mieko, nods solemnly at William's words.] You're right.. But at the same time, those same people gave me purpose.
[24.04.2024 01:40:09] Yorha: Without them.. I feel aimless. I don't know where to go. Who to trust.
[24.04.2024 01:41:18] Proctor: Can't rely on other people to give you purpose, if you can help it. Gotta find it for yourself.
[24.04.2024 01:44:13] Yorha: [She nods once more.] I.. see. In.. In that case.. [she wipes away her tears. Her sleeves are clearly dirtied with such liquid]
[24.04.2024 01:44:38] Yorha: I guess I have to find.. somewhere to belong.
[24.04.2024 01:46:04] Proctor: [He nods.] S'important. What's dear to you, beyond others?
[24.04.2024 01:46:46] Yorha: [She thinks long and hard about the matter. Silence fills the room. What would normally take an AI nanoseconds.. seems to take
[24.04.2024 01:47:45] Yorha: minutes. Emotions like they have been before, cloud her ability to process things succinctly.] Companionship. A sense of..
[24.04.2024 01:47:51] Yorha: belonging. Cyclical, I know.
[24.04.2024 01:48:36] Yorha: But.. other than tracking down what happened to my creator, and my past before Hanamura-sensei.. not much.
[24.04.2024 01:48:53] Proctor: You know, it's funny. That's how cults get people.
[24.04.2024 01:49:45] Yorha: True. Nee-san never told you, how me, her, and Hanamura-sensei met, did she?
[24.04.2024 01:50:00] Proctor: Never.
[24.04.2024 01:50:50] Yorha: [She lights up a bit.] Hanamura-sensei was a first-generation Kusari, cryogenically frozen until around 823 AS.
[24.04.2024 01:51:22] Yorha: A subsidiary of Kishiro, had been cryogenically freezing people as part of a government program of some sort dating back to..
[24.04.2024 01:52:08] Yorha: the landing of the colony ship upon New Tokyo. She originally came from Sol. After she ran off during their experimentation..
[24.04.2024 01:52:41] Yorha: she fled to acquire a second-hand starflier using stolen credits.
[24.04.2024 01:53:00] Yorha: The ship was originally owned by someone who had a hand in creating me and my sister.
[24.04.2024 01:53:24] Yorha: The dealer apparently didn't bother to check the AI slots onboard for us.. and sold us at a low price of 17,000 SC.
[24.04.2024 01:54:01] Yorha: When she escaped into orbit, we activated and cut engines. She.. pleaded with us to let her escape. She was alone and afraid.
[24.04.2024 01:54:32] Yorha: A Keisatsu patrolman approached, and attempted to extricate her from the ship.. eventually.. against our directives, we fired..
[24.04.2024 01:55:04] Yorha: on the detective, killing him with fire from one of the Neutron cannons aboard. Suffice to say.. we left Kusari shortly after.
[24.04.2024 01:55:29] Yorha: We had no memory of our creator. All we had was what intelligence we were provided with, and common morality directives.
[24.04.2024 01:55:41] Yorha: Hanamura-sensei was all we had. And we were all she had.
[24.04.2024 01:55:58] Yorha: I.. finally feel.. how Hanamura-sensei felt all those years ago.
[24.04.2024 01:56:10] Yorha: It's.. a sick irony, isn't it?
[24.04.2024 01:56:22] Yorha: Years later, seperated from family and friends.
[24.04.2024 01:56:22] Proctor: Just as much as companionship is part of the human condition, so is loneliness. Can't have one without the other.
[24.04.2024 01:56:54] Yorha: Mhm.
[24.04.2024 01:57:40] Yorha: I hold out hope she and the others.. are still alive.
[24.04.2024 01:57:58] Yorha: But.. there's no use in crying over jettisoned synth paste.
[24.04.2024 01:58:32] Yorha: .. Hehe...
[24.04.2024 01:58:58] Yorha: [she laughs a bit.] Hanamura-sensei always hated those. She said she couldn't stand eating food from 'a toothpaste tube'.
[24.04.2024 01:59:41] Proctor: The one thing I appreciate about Gauls... is their hatred for the stuff.
[24.04.2024 02:00:48] Yorha: Mm.. Gallia.. I have yet to hear much from over there.
[24.04.2024 02:01:19] Yorha: Freeport 11 apparently even, has changed.. and not for the better.
[24.04.2024 02:02:07] Proctor: Everything's changed. Absolutely everything.
[24.04.2024 02:03:11] Yorha: I see.
[24.04.2024 02:03:43] Yorha: Honestly.. I have no idea where to go. I don't know if after my faux pas.. Auxesia would humor allowing me into their ranks.
[24.04.2024 02:04:25] Yorha: Beyond Auxesia.. I daren't go to Kusari. We made enough foes there before we left. 8 year old wounds or no..
[24.04.2024 02:04:41] Yorha: People will still remember.. and I bet the Keisatsu still has a warrant for my termination.
[24.04.2024 02:05:20] Yorha: Zoner society is falling apart.
[24.04.2024 02:05:24] Proctor: I'm certain you haven't committed a terrible sin. Believe me.
[24.04.2024 02:05:40] Yorha: Really..?
[24.04.2024 02:07:38] Proctor: Auxesia was made on fuck-ups. It's all about wanting to get better.
[24.04.2024 02:07:43] Proctor: Wanting to improve.
[24.04.2024 02:08:26] Yorha: [She looks to him, before firmly nodding her head.] I want to improve, to do better.
[24.04.2024 02:09:57] Proctor: Then you're fine.
[24.04.2024 02:10:45] Yorha: [She warms up even more. A bit of the smile from her younger years coming back.] Then.. I think I know what I must do.
[24.04.2024 02:10:59] Proctor: Mm?
[24.04.2024 02:11:09] Yorha: I hope Hanamura-sensei and them will return.. and that I can be by their side..
[24.04.2024 02:11:24] Yorha: But until then.. I will hone myself under the guidance of Auxesia.
[24.04.2024 02:11:47] Yorha: Refine, and improve. So that I may be stronger than I was before.
[24.04.2024 02:14:33] Proctor: Well. Glad to see another one coming for the cause.
[24.04.2024 02:15:22] Proctor: I certainly hope you'll fit in a bit better, ah?
[24.04.2024 02:15:29] Yorha: [She briefly hugs him.] Thank you, Will-san. I greatly.. greatly appreciate you being here.
[24.04.2024 02:16:05] Yorha: [She nods.] Yes. I will diligently adhere to the teachings of my superiors, and act out the will of the Technocracy for the..
[24.04.2024 02:16:12] Yorha: benefit of all under its' protection.
[24.04.2024 02:17:03] Proctor: [He reciprocates the hug, eyes still fixating sometimes on the portrait of Hunt.] Well... don't get too hung up on the ideals.
[24.04.2024 02:17:15] Proctor: Remember to remain yourself.
[24.04.2024 02:17:52] Yorha: [She acknowledges his statement.] Yes sir. In the end, there is only I. I will not blindly follow but adhere to which I see as
[24.04.2024 02:17:58] Yorha: self-evident.
[24.04.2024 02:19:01] Proctor: Look at that. Just needing the right pep talk and reassurance. I'm magic or somethin'.
[24.04.2024 02:19:34] Yorha: Honestly, all I needed, was someone to help me. And I have to thank you for that. As the old human saying goes..
[24.04.2024 02:19:42] Yorha: One man.. woman.. or AI - cannot be an island.
[24.04.2024 02:20:07] Yorha: We all need someone sooner or later, in one fashion or another.
[24.04.2024 02:21:01] Proctor: Guess you're heading to Inverness soon, then.
[24.04.2024 02:21:16] Proctor: Either that, or hitch a ride from the Orion.
[24.04.2024 02:21:44] Yorha: Yes. I will be returning. I need to sort out securing the homestead before I depart, but I will be in Inverness in the coming
[24.04.2024 02:22:06] Yorha: days. That being said, If such matters were not an issue - I would gladly ask to have you take me there.
[24.04.2024 02:22:59] Proctor: Whenever you're ready, I can guide the way.
[24.04.2024 02:23:16] Yorha: Actually..
[24.04.2024 02:23:52] Yorha: [She stands there silent for a moment.] An old friend of Hanamura-sensei's.. one who runs the bar in Elsmere. She reached out..
[24.04.2024 02:24:32] Yorha: Earlier. I have asked her to arrange security measures. Allow me to collect my things, and I will join you in space. My ship is
[24.04.2024 02:24:46] Yorha: parked nearby in a clearing.
[24.04.2024 02:25:05] Proctor: Right. And well, Proctor's out front. I'll meet you up there.
[24.04.2024 02:27:51] Yoruha: Datalink is established.
[24.04.2024 02:27:56] Proctor: Time to get underway. Try to keep up, kid.
[24.04.2024 02:27:59] Yoruha: It's been a long time since I used that feature.
[24.04.2024 02:28:06] Yoruha: I will!
[24.04.2024 02:28:27] Yoruha: [She watches Will blast off into the distance.] Whoa..
[24.04.2024 02:28:33] Proctor: Form up, if you can.
[24.04.2024 02:28:38] Proctor: It'll help sync the speeds.
[24.04.2024 02:28:44] Yoruha: Right.
[24.04.2024 02:29:01] Proctor: Proctor's a good ship. Carried me through enough scrapes.
[24.04.2024 02:29:26] Yoruha: Meanwhile nearly all of my ships are on the Seraphine..
[24.04.2024 02:30:00] Proctor: Just think of it as a fresh start, or something.
[24.04.2024 02:31:06] Yoruha: It does feel that way. A new beginning.
[24.04.2024 02:31:17] Proctor: Most people would kill for that.
[24.04.2024 02:32:09] Proctor: Gonna go through a little backdoor. Avoid Bretonia.
[24.04.2024 02:35:02] Yoruha: A back door, ne..? Sirius really has changed.
[24.04.2024 02:35:31] Yoruha: It used to be you would have to go through Bretonia to get to Inverness through the Omegas.. lest you wanted to go..
[24.04.2024 02:35:36] Yoruha: through Rheinland and Liberty.
[24.04.2024 02:35:49] Proctor: This one is treacherous, so...
[24.04.2024 02:35:52] Proctor: Careful, kid.
[24.04.2024 02:35:59] Yoruha: Hai. I understand.
[24.04.2024 02:37:43] Proctor: Next one is rough, too.
[24.04.2024 02:37:55] Proctor: Bit of a field of fire.
[24.04.2024 02:38:16] Yoruha: Mm. If Marisa-san could drag me, Hanamura-sensei, and nee-san into the depths of the Omicrons, far into Nomad space..
[24.04.2024 02:38:28] Yoruha: Then this will be fine.
[24.04.2024 02:39:36] Proctor: Manual flying.
[24.04.2024 02:39:47] Yoruha: Understood.
[24.04.2024 02:41:59] Proctor: Time for a graveyard...
[24.04.2024 02:43:33] Proctor: Feels like yesterday the Eidolon Wraith was coming in for repairs to Leniex...
[24.04.2024 02:43:43] Proctor: Before we ever had a home.
[24.04.2024 02:43:49] Yoruha: The Eidolon Wraith.. that name brings back memories.
[24.04.2024 02:44:49] Yoruha: We had met with Vex Upsilon and.. Kalh, I forgot his first name, to discuss things regarding Freeport 11 and the sort.
[24.04.2024 02:45:15] Yoruha: Leviathan had said Vex was missing. I hope she is alright and.. if she is dead, she went peacefully.
[24.04.2024 02:45:22] Yoruha: Or went out doing what she loved.
[24.04.2024 02:45:53] Proctor: Kalh took on some new identity. Asmodeus or something. He still works with Aux, oddly enough.
[24.04.2024 02:46:57] Yoruha: Hmm.. I remember him being quite.. curt.
[24.04.2024 02:47:07] Proctor: Typical of most Order spooks.
[24.04.2024 02:48:17] Yoruha: Mmhm.. The only person who was still with the Order who ever offered me kindness was one of Golanski's adjutants - Sara Shepard
[24.04.2024 02:48:35] Yoruha: . Though, truth be told, even that kindness didn't last long.
[24.04.2024 02:48:49] Proctor: It's the way of those zealots.
[24.04.2024 02:49:08] Yoruha: Mmhm. Orillion would be ashamed.
[24.04.2024 02:49:16] Proctor: Somehow, I doubt he would be.
[24.04.2024 02:49:32] Yoruha: How so..?
[24.04.2024 02:49:54] Proctor: That entire lot of self-proclaimed guardians of mankind only see other lifeforms as dangers.
[24.04.2024 02:49:59] Proctor: They're blind to anything else.
[24.04.2024 02:50:11] Yoruha: .. You raise a very valid point in that, Will-san.
[24.04.2024 02:50:30] Yoruha: Remember how I spoke about such things being self-evident?
[24.04.2024 02:50:54] Yoruha: I think our time at Freeport 11 is all the evidence needed.
[24.04.2024 02:51:39] Yoruha: Golanski seemed not to care about just using a nuclear weapon to obliterate the freeport.. Much like Erik Nodtviet.. I think..
[24.04.2024 02:51:44] Yoruha: did prior, with the Core.
[24.04.2024 02:51:51] Proctor: Men of power. Always the same.
[24.04.2024 02:51:56] Yoruha: Though my memory of such things is weak.
[24.04.2024 02:52:33] Yoruha: Yes. A Terran book I once read whilst on Ismara at Hunt's abode - had a wise saying.
[24.04.2024 02:52:38] Yoruha: Absolute Power, corrupts absolutely.
[24.04.2024 02:52:52] Proctor: Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince. Required reading at West Point.
[24.04.2024 02:53:04] Yoruha: A good book.
[24.04.2024 02:53:34] Yoruha: An artificial intelligence like me could always just.. skim through pages of a digital copy but.. what is the fun in that, when
[24.04.2024 02:53:38] Yoruha: you can just take it slowly.
[24.04.2024 02:53:53] Proctor: Well... I suppose that depends on what you feel you are, huh?
[24.04.2024 02:54:17] Yoruha: True. Sometimes taking it slow is better.
[24.04.2024 02:54:55] Yoruha: Humans when they created us, saw us as a way to make their lives easier, faster to get through the mundanity and boring parts.
[24.04.2024 02:55:05] Yoruha: Little did they know the boring parts are what makes life worthwhile.
[24.04.2024 02:55:11] Yoruha: The little things.
[24.04.2024 02:55:16] Proctor: Think it depends on the people.
[24.04.2024 02:55:34] Yoruha: I agree - but that is just a single perspective .
[24.04.2024 02:55:48] Proctor: It's up to you to determine who, and what, you are.
[24.04.2024 02:56:27] Yoruha: I will dock here for now, and hail the Technocracy in the morning for potential recruitment. Wish me well.. and thank you.
[24.04.2024 02:56:43] Proctor: I'm sure you'll do great, kid.
[24.04.2024 02:56:56] Yoruha: I will do my best. Farewell, Will-san.
[24.04.2024 02:57:02] Proctor: Safe skies.

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