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[Raven is sitting on the grass in the back yard of House 12, looking at a large patch of fire lilies that have grown. He knew he must've planted them at some point in the past, because they had always reminded him of her. It was still strange to see so many growing in what was otherwise a relatively empty garden.]

Ya know, with Jack showin' up again so quickly, Old Raven has been thinkin'. If the me that was here before was pulled into Luceti from a point that's in my future, and I'm from his past, but I'm in Luceti's future... Then did he know all along what was gonna happen in Luceti, because he remembered it all from me? Or did he just arrive like the rest of the New Feathers tend to do? If that's the case, then it means when I do go home, I'm goin' ta forget everyone I've met here... Oh! Maybe he was from some kinda alternate timeline, and I will remember stuff?

[He stops rambling, letting out a huge sigh.] I just realized that I'm sitting here by myself, talkin' to a bunch of flowers... I'm losin' it, really! I'm goin' insane, this is the proof! The flowers are telling me things! [And with that, he throws himself backwards, arms stretched wide as he laid down, staring up at the sky.]

Or maybe I'm just wonderin' what's going on back home. Gah! I'm not the type to be homesick! I need to do something! Anything!

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Is that so? I knew women who loved flowers, but I never gave them any. [He can relate to the second part.] I still have flowers that someone important to me grew here, but I gave some to her close friends some who were my own.

See! Now I might not be any kind of expert when it comes to flowers, but they hold a lot of meanin' to people. It's quite impressive actually.

The flowers I own are called Heaven's Mirror, because they shine brightly in the darkness and reflect a light very close to heaven's light.

Heaven's Mirror? I'm not sure how a flower can reflect heaven... But they sound pretty mystical.

[He points the journal camera towards the flowers he's growing. Bright orange lilies, and plenty of them.]

The ones I'm growin' are called Fire Lilies.

[He looks at the flowers through the camera then looks rather fascinated by them.]

They are very beautiful, thank you for sharing them with me. I would show you a Heaven's Mirror, but it's in a bud right now because it only blooms at night.

A flower that only blooms at night? I thought flowers needed the sun to survive?

Well during the day, these flowers stay in their buds and absorb the sunlight. Then when it turns to night, they let out all the sunlight they absorbed during the day.

Oh! So they're... sun absorbing night lights?... That sounds strange.

Yes, you could say that. [If only he could tell Raven that these strange flowers were from his dream, but instead he says something else.] Many things from my...world are like that.

Ya mean your world is full of backwards things? Stuff that shouldn't make sense, but does?

That's true to a certain extent, though it's rather difficult to explain.

Try me! It's not as though I haven't been thinkin' of complicated stuff all day.

If you can believe me when I say this... My world is actually a dream I had, yet it became its own actual reality separated from my mind.

[He thinks hard before replying.]

If 'your world' is a dream ya had, then it isn't your world. The world where yer asleep is your home world?

It's much easier for me to say that the dream world is my home, even if...the world outside of my dream is my home world.

Ya prefer livin' in the dream world then? What about those from the real one? Your family, your friends?

It is not that I prefer living in the dream world, per say. It's that...the people there were my friends and I cared for them. [He sighs.] The only family I have left in the real world home are my mother and two sisters, but...times make it hard for me to see them. As for friends, I truly have no one I can really call a friend back home in the real world.