Alright, like I said before, in case you didn't see it before and you just came for the piece placement: Read the description behind the chess piece colors in this chapter, then go to the next and you'll understand.

Okay, I'll be moving on to the next part of this trilogy: Ori's actions and interactions with certain objects. This basically means talking to the voice, picking up certain things, and other stuff like that .

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'They were all regularly shaped and seemed to be in their beginning positions, and the floor below them held smaller tiles than the ones I had been traveling across, big enough for only one piece to fit on. What struck me the most as odd was not that they were all twice as tall as I was, but that there were three different colors: light grey, dark grey, and… purple?'

It's chess, a mind game, which represents the psychological war between Kira and those trying to catch Kira. They're in their starting positions because, of course, the game hasn't quite started yet… Well, not the 'true' game. Their size has to do with their importance in what Ori has come to accomplish and to represent actual life-size people. The colors? Yes, there is a meaning behind them. The main defining color for each side is grey. One is a darker shade of the color while the other is lighter. This is shown to represent the different senses of justice. Death Note isn't so much a story to be divided up into good and bad as it is to help illustrate human nature. No one is perfect, not a one. Therefore, despite being a major serial killer, Light shall be the darker righteousness, with L and the others being a lighter tone. The purple colors represent individuals who benefit both sides, indirectly and directly. No personal preferences are taken into this consideration, though, as benefits provided may not always be intentional or preferred by said individual.

'I stared at this weird design that my mind had come up with, and jumped ten feet in the air when a voice began whispering to me. "Everything has a meaning." It was feminine and breathy, like speaking too loudly or with too much emphasis might shatter its ability to communicate.'

The voice, Ori's subconscious. This is the part of her that remembers what she went there to do. However, she is barely there, instead 'whispering', because she cannot influence the conscious Ori's decisions entirely while she is dreaming. The best she can hope to do is leave a strong enough impact. With that in mind, this 'sub-Ori' has inadvertently laid out a puzzle for her to solve. Ori cannot wear her necklace during such times, despite being granted great intelligence, because it is part of the Shinigami Realm, and would only serve to hindrance and take away any gained knowledge. Remember, this is more of a game to the Shinigami King than it is a mission to save someone. If she could get her memories back so easily, he wouldn't be very entertained, now will he? She'll have to remember on her own if she wants to win her own battle.

'I turned a full circle, just taking everything in and starting to think things through out loud… well, out loud in my dreamscape.'

Yes, it is possible to think in a dream… but her speaking aloud has more to do with establishing her connection to the voice than anything else. Ori is one whole being that is broken up into the aware and the unaware parts. Even so, they all share the same intellect and thoughts as a whole being.

'I turned and saw a bottle of the chemical liquid at my feet along with a rag for cleaning. "Oh."… The filth didn't seem to want to come off, so I had to put a lot of elbow grease into it. "Almost… got it!" I froze in shock at the final face in front of me… and it was 'me'. "Why am I-I on it?" '

The bottle of Windex and rag: they hold a representation of clues to be revealed. Everything basic she learns will help her 'clean' the fogginess in her mind so she can solve her personal case. Her finding it so difficult to clean her own piece again goes to represent how she will not be entirely in the game at first.

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And that's the end of the second part of this trilogy ;). Sorry it took so long to get it up, but the third will be coming shortly after .