[Area] The Virtuous Victorian

"Alright alright I'll tell you my story." Jake clears his throat and then begins speaking.

"It all started when me and Niki entered that stupid game with our house. At first it was kinda cool, but there were dumb monsters everywhere that kept trying to attack us. Niki and that stuffed tiger she stole from my room tried to keep me inside the house almost all the time and I got tired of it. The sooner I'd get away from them, the better. So I alchemized a ton of capri suns with her help and as soon as I got the chance, I left that house and never turned back."
Nothing particularly special is shown along with his words. It seems his imagination level isn't very high.
Niki sighs.

"Eventually, I got lost in a cave with a bunch of crazy glitches on the walls... I left a trail, but got stuck behind some place where the ground like, didn't work the right way. I couldn't figure it out so I just kept going deeper. These kinda places usually have more than one exit, right? And then... I got cornered by a hugeass sabretooth tiger looking thing and... yeah." Jake looks down at his pale hands, ever so slightly see-through at the moment.
"...I guess that's how I died. At least I don't remember the pain though."

Niki can't even speak. She recognized everything about his story. The capri sun trail, the glitch cave, the tigerplush ogre... This Jake must have been from a version of those events where she and the search party were unable to save him.
"... ->"

The silence is broken by Kat's arrival, and thankfully snapping Niki out of her melancholy.
At least she's got macaroni now.

Niki grabs a bowl of mac and cheese and pours herself a glass of milk. Milk always goes good with macaroni.
She almost immediately digs in as soon as she has hers all set.

Jake looks over at the assortment of drinks near the pot of macaroni. He doesn't seem quite as hungry as once thought. Maybe a taste wouldn't be so bad.
He puts a small amount of macaroni in his bowl and carefully tries to eat just one cheese covered noodle.

Jake then remembers the last time he had eaten macaroni and cheese, back when he was still alive.
His sister had made it for them. He wasn't quite comfortable with boiling water on his own so he had to deal with her "creative interpretations" of the basic recipe.
She had put an entire block of alchemized colby jack cheese in that batch, along with a sprinkle of onion powder. What was even the use of onion powder? He may never even know.

At this point, the macaroni that was in his mouth has mysteriously disappeared. The memory it brought back to him had faded back into the foreground as well.
He has to get more of that.

Jake goes ahead and gets a regular sized helping for himself and begins shoveling down macaroni as if he had been starving for a week.

Come to think of it, he probably had starved for a week, subsisting only on capri suns and all.
Thankfully, all the macaroni he ate got absorbed properly and made no mess.

Niki just kinda looks over at him, honestly surprised that he finished so quickly.

Katie grabs a glass of Mundet Sidral if it's available, Sprite if it isn't, as well as a bowl of Mac & Cheese. As she eats, she tries to remember how the end of the Scrouge Fight went... but that was so many time loops ago. She can't remember it.

Meanwhile, a small robot pops out of her Sylladex. It looked like a shoebox with wheels and a screen poking out of it. On the monitor, a male AI, looking roughly 16, with pink skin and a Linkin Park shirt glares out at the humans. His name is *CaFaI, and he's still not over losing his job. The diminutive robot wheels his way over to the Box teleporter FL left in. A small set of helicopter rotors pop out of his back, spinning up to lift him into the box. 

Nak waddles into the lounge, quietly hissing at a kek co™ brand shoe-pad.

Gritting his interlocking teeth and shutting off the screen, the amphibious lizard addresses the group, fairly obviously annoyed by whatever was just taking up his attention. 

"Why naking around on ship? Work to do, lizard-people to nakssimilate. Babysitter for prince paid by temporal hour, not planet time. Union law."

"Oh! That's so good to hear!"
Kat smiles as she gets her own bowl of macaroni and starts munching. At least they're enjoying the meal.

She then notices the little lizard consort grumbling about in the lounge and addressing his complaints at the group.

"...Would you like me to drop you off at Starter Planet? Seems like you're late or something, from what I can understand...?"

"Oh, there's some under the table! Feel free to use them."

Kat seems to glance at the pocketwatch with a pensive look for a few seconds before going back to her macaroni.

Elsey is clearly just as unnerved by this phenomena as well.

"So...Uhh...Anything you guys wanna say?"
She takes a sip of her tea. This kind of deal is something more abnormal than the usual things they've dealt with.
But at least reality isn't falling into pieces.

Yet.

"Medicine...?"

Kat feels as if she recalls someone with that name that isn't a Touhou character.

Elsey, however, takes a good long look at the scribble before taking another sip of her tea.
"You guys never mentioned that there's more than one of me...What gives?"

Kat's expression changes as she remembers something.

"I've seen an entry in the Library of Memory with that name before...It was heavily damaged, but I remember seeing whoever owned that memory break some clock hands off a strange clockwork mace. I don't remember much else though. It would take someone who really wanted to forget something to damage a memory like that...

But this definitely solidifies the fact that this is a ghost of Raine's 'shadow'."

"Wait, wasn't there a forum post that mentioned someone named Medi? Maybe that's short for Medicine."