A/N: Part of the Spectrum of Colours verse - a rewrite for the Digimon Cyber Sleuth game. Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompts #7 - plants, and for the Becoming the Tamer King Challenge, Steamy Jungle task.
Spectrum of Colours
side-story
Eden is Black
Eden is a garden. Some people call it the garden. Paradise. It should be all the rage.
She finds it quite boring. Which is unfortunate because she's stuck. Doesn't quite know how. Or why. Everyone else comes and goes. They start out solid, then they fade. Sometimes she talks with them. Learns their name, where they came from - sort of profiles them. It's good practice for when she becomes a police officer or private detective or something. Or maybe even a doctor. It will be fun to work in the ED, she thinks.
ED, not Eden. Though she doesn't know of it's an acronym or the real thing. Either way, it's a silly name. It's no paradise. A waiting place, rather.
But that's the only name everyone knows. The others forget their names quickly enough. And the rest of their details. Then they vanish quickly afterwards, like they've lost their very existence when they lose their name. She remembers theirs, though. Or most of them anyway. It's not like she's got a pad and paper handy to make notes and she puts priority on her own memories. After all, what does it matter who someone else is if she can't remember herself?
But sometimes when all the known ones are gone and new ones are showing up, all outlines of white and varying shades of grey drifting towards her because she looks so different from the rest of them… And she doesn't know why it matters if she remembers the ones that are gone, if she remembers herself.
But she's a twin and it's just a thing with twins - or maybe it's just a thing between the two of them. They swap places and play pranks and do all that, but outside of that it's so important to the both of them to know who they are, to have everyone know who they are, that they're Ami and Takumi and not just the Aiba twins. It's important and a part of both of them and maybe that's why she can't allow herself to forget, maybe that's why she goes the extra step and tries to remember for everyone else as well. Because it's important, even if it doesn't matter when they're stuck in a garden that's pretty much a black, empty space but for some reason is called Eden.
Actually, she doesn't know why she knows that. Or why everybody else knows it too. She just does. They just do.
Maybe she should try and give the place a new name in between all the profiling.