Krepta's Writings
Poems, Thoughts, Stories, Songs, and Dreams
Sunday, January 29, 2006 ~ 13:00
Paradise of the Lost
01. rainbow games
02. a perfect score
03. idolators
04. flight of the delta
05. Rainbow Road
06. photographic memory
07. out of time & After it!
08. home sweet home
09. car talk
10. food storage
11. christina and ethan
12. the plan & Set out!
13. hunting for clues
14. strange deception
15. maze of alleys ~ Concert Hall (vision 1)
16. Fake Names
17. neverending stairwell
18. Escape
19. maze of alleys ~ Grand Theatre (vision 2)
20. Hillside Manor
21. hypnotic aura
22. Split up!
23. chant of the Flower Maiden
24. dissociative identity
25. Snap out of it!
26. chamber of the Lost
27. Stay with me
28. thu, my dear
29. suicide stories
30. ghastley apparitions & thu takes off
31. Good evening, Sir & Where's ethan?
32. eerie giggles & leading me astray
33. maze of alleys ~ Ocean Side
34. end of the line
35. the killing moon
36. search in vain & Jessica
37. machop's story
38. the haunting
39. Sheilaness, ethan's beloved
40. curse of the Flower Maiden
41. spellbound trio
42. for thu & I will find them
43. to the edge of the world, the road to Paradise
Characters
(in order of appearance)
As themselves:
christina (11); thu (28); J Pon (36)
As other characters:
fei (39) as Sheilaness
Fictional characters:
ethan (11); Machop (37) as machop; Blue (40) as the Flower Maiden
Notes
- Scenes 38-41 are a flashback seen through the eyes of machop, a friendly humanoid creature who can speak and
was once ethan's companion.
- For those of you who don't know, Machop is a Pokémon.
- Scenes 15 and 19 are visions I have early on of what would later happen in scene 33.
- The chant of the Flower Maiden in scene 23 is in fact Cheza's hypnotic chant in Wolf's Rain. In the dream, christina
is entranced by the chant and begins to believe she is Sheilaness, ethan's beloved who killed herself years ago. I
attempt but fail to make her snap out of it until she encounters the actual spirit of Sheilaness in the chamber of
the Lost. When she recovers, she is once again thu (scene 28). We do not actually see the Flower Maiden until she
appears in scene 40 in machop's flachback.
- The title of scene 35 is in reference to my poem Dreameater. What the poem describes is essentially the theme for
this scene.
- machop's flashback reveals that the Flower Maiden was once a young maiden who fell in love with ethan when he first
visited Hillside Manor. The young man, however, loved a woman named Sheilaness, and the two were engaged. The
maiden, who always wore a flower in her hair, was jealous and anguished that her love was unrequited. On a night of
a full moon, the maiden threw herself off a cliff into the ocean, not far behind the Manor. Because of this heinous
act, her fate would be to haunt the Manor and its grounds and be forever restless. ethan returned to the Manor with
his wife a few months later for their honeymoon. On a night of a full moon during their stay, the flower Maiden
hypnotized Sheilaness into leaping off the same cliff from which she had killed herself, and placed on ethan a curse
that would last until he remembered the young maiden he had once met and gave her his heart (not literally). He
and any woman with whom he would fall in love thereafter would be drawn back towards Hillside Manor, and that
woman would eventually commit the same act the maiden and Sheilaness did. Neither ethan nor the people who
reside and work at the Manor would remember any of these happenings as anyone who enters the grounds of the
Manor fall under the spell of the Flower Maiden... all, except for one person and a humanoid creature.
- When I meet him in scene 11, ethan is a reporter investigating the disappearance of a young girl and another
woman who each were last seen at Hillside Manor several years ago. christina is his assigned partner for this
particular story, and he secretly harbors feelings of affection for her. Sure enough, the two of them make their way
to Hillside Manor as part of their investigation, unaware that thay had been drawn towards it all along. I accompany
them at christina's request, as she feels suspicious about the place and does not believe that ethan is capable of
protecting her in the event of danger.
- In scene 37, machop appears out of nowhere just after I try to tell Jessica what is going on, unaware that she,
like everyone else at the Manor, cannot understand any of it. It is never explained why machop does not fall
or has never before fallen under the spell of the Flower Maiden, or where he has been all this time.
- When machop is done telling his story, we learn that the spirit of Sheilaness has led ethan and thu away from the
Manor and the Flower Maiden, into the safety of the Mystical Forest, the road to the Paradise of the Lost. The forest
is not normally accessible to mortals, but because ethan and christina were bound to Sheilaness by the curse and
spell of the Flower Maiden, they were allowed to go through. I pack a few supplies, then thank machop for his help
and wish both him and Jessica goodbye as I set out to go find thu and ethan.
- By scene 42, I discover why I was not affected by the spell and why I can travel through the Mystical Forest,
prompting my decision to go find my friends. I will not discuss those questions here. Rather, I will leave it up to you
to try to figure them out.
- It is never explicitly explained in the dream why we do not hear anything from ethan's relatives or those of his wife,
but it can be assumed that the families, as well as local authorities, did travel to Hillside Manor upon hearing of the
death of Sheilaness, or, more plausibly, on realizing that she was missing, since there could be no one coming back
from there who would remember what had really happened or even who Sheilaness was to begin with. If they did go
there, then they too will have fallen under the spell of the Flower Maiden. Nevertheless, it is improbable that they,
like ethan, could have forgotten completely who she was because there would certainly be documents and photos
demonstrating her existence, and certainly not all who knew her would have gone to the Manor. With that said, they
woud likely attribute the cause of ethan's amnesia regarding his wife to the shock of her death or disappearance.
After some time they would have given up on trying to make him recall and would gradually have distanced
themselves from him. The whole story would remain a mystery, but there would be no inconsistencies in the facts
known between the parties affected by it.
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