In books, they talk about the last thing someone thinks before they die. They speak of that final thought with an almost reverence, as if it sums up everything about a person in just one moment. As if it means everything.

When the witch's teeth loom closer and closer and all around, Mami finds out that there isn't really a thing you think before you die. Her mind is entirely blank, unless this counts: the only thing that occurs to her is that she's thinking absolutely nothing.

Maybe this is supposed to say something about her, too. Maybe the fact that she doesn't think anything is supposed to mean the same thing as thinking something would.

Maybe that empty little girl, the one who always hid behind amber confidence and sunshine smiles, is trying to shout her last words.

Maybe that little girl was her after all.

She tries screaming, but nothing comes out.


i've been waiting for this category to show up. this is an amazing series.

this feels, i don't know...weird. but i wanted to write mami.

next i shall write sayaka, or perhaps homura. who knows.