[FROM THE OUTSIDE-IN]
[how did we get here?]

MEMO7A - dealing-with-(interrogator/interloper/troublemaker)

I want answers, creature.

answers to what??
you can't just barge in here and drag me to a dimly lit
room

You know more about The Jouse than you lead on, surely.
  i didn't even know this was a part of it.
    We're not doing this.

well, an introduction would be a good start?? maybe?

Fine, though I doubt you're unfamiliar with me.
  i have noo idea who you are
My name is Kim. I was close to her before their
disappearance.
  hiii i'm fiend i like playing with tuoys and
  walking around aimlessly :]
From what I've come to understand, some circumstances
lead to you somehow gettng wrapped up in all of this.

Were you or were you not inside The Jouse at the time
of his vanishing?

i might've been. honestly, i've been trying to
understand this whole predicament myself.
  "Might've?" You're not very helpful.
    nah i'm just fucking with you
    i was totally there

Okay. What happened after she disappeared?

well,  nothing at first. but!
the walls shifted and lead me to a variant i hadn't
seen before.

New variant...? Very interesting.
Tell me more.

it was a whole thing involving some keys
that beamed some sort of knowledge into my brain and
let me understand the jouse's existence.

pretty tragic, honestly. i almost feel bad for it,
but i've resigned to the fact that there is nothing
i can do about it.
  What did they say?
    we can check it out after the interrogation, kim.
      I'm not the one being pressed, Fiend.

I've noticed that peculiar key hanging off your bag.
It didn't happen to use those, did it?

no, they were rusty as hell.
brittle, too. broke after one use.
i got this at the end in a room labelled "core."

Interesting. The core of The Jouse?

maybe, though there wasn't much variation in
its design.

it seemed fabricated,
though the key is definitely real.

Anything else of note?

when i came out of fake i was put at
the center of the world.

had to find my way back here, just to see the entrance
to second layer was behind a locked door now.

this purple key opened it though,
so it might be intentional.

Weird.

You know, there were no signs of The Jouse wanting to
let anybody know of its nature aside from her.

Why would it take a liking to you?

Is it just a "right person at the right time"
sort of thing?

could be. wouldn't be surprised, really.

though to be honest, i haven't gone through much
of second layer, just the first floor.

something about that place feels really ominous.

How so?

feels like there's something there that
isn't for me.

like im taking a hand-crafted gift for someone else
and using it as my own.

It still may be worth checking out.

With that new variant, who knows whether or not
it stopped there?

fair point. are we done here?

I suppose. I've got what I need.

I'll be leaving now, thank you for your
cooperation, Fiend.

uh, sure. see you, kim