(A/N): I love the episode 'Tick Tock'.

So simple and so beautiful.

Anyway, I just randomly thought of something this morning, and realized how well it fit.

Remember Zane's 'reset face' in the final memory?

Try this quote.

"And his face turned cold, and his eyes turned steely, and he never was the same again."

That quote is said describing another character from another film: Haku from Spirited Away.

This is pretty much an experiment to see what would happen if I (metaphorically, of course… you know I don't abuse characters… heh heh…) shoved those two in the same room. Expect more 'empathy' than 'epic battle', though.

THINGS LOST AND THINGS FORGOTTEN

Where am I?

It's some sort of strange lair.

A ramp spirals up to the ceiling of the circular room. An old, white-haired man lies in a bed nearby.

I step on a pair of glasses as I turn around; the frame breaks in a few places, and the lenses shatter. I sweep the remains under the bed with my foot and move on, walking up the ramp of the strange room and outside into a snowy wonderland.

Some sort of bronze shape moves in the woods about fifty meters away from me. I run from the object, wondering what it is while knowing it can be nothing good.

Night falls. I keep walking.

Time passes and I begin to wonder if there is an end to these woods.

A shadow suddenly covers me, and I run faster. The shadow keeps pace with me before falling off behind me.

I turn around to see a boy with dark blue-green hair watching me. His piercing, hardened green eyes follow my every move.

"Who are you?" I ask him.

"I don't know who I really am," the boy tells me. "I can't remember my name. They call me Haku at the bath house. Who are you?"

I think for a moment. "I'm pretty sure my name is Zane."

"Interesting," he says. "Where are you going?"

"I don't know."

There is silence in the clearing for a moment, and I watch the boy carefully.

"I passed over a town a few miles from here," Haku says, looking off into the distance, through the trees. He seems sad, somehow. "You could stay there until you figure out where you want to go."

"Thanks," I say.

For the next few miles, we walk together in silence. Eventually, the trees begin to thin, and the outskirts of a small city begin to form from the woods.

I realize that Haku has not followed me, and turn around. He is standing by the edge of the woods, and I wave to him to come with me.

He shakes his head.

I turn around and keep walking before I remember that I hadn't thanked him.

I look back behind me at the spot near the tree where he was standing.

No one is there.

I keep walking into the city, trying to find what I was looking for.

Miles overhead, soaring into the distance, a dragon flies on a mission for his master.

(A/N): I liked writing this one!

Thanks for reading!