Disclaimer:
I, Kusabi Makabe, do not own Fatal Frame…though I do hope to one day. XD
Prologue – Excerpts from Mikoto Munakata's Diary
Daddy's making us move. He said that he wants us to live in this famous old house for a while so he can research the stuff that happened there. I'm a little nervous about leaving my home, but it might be fun to have a whole mansion to explore!
I think Mommy's getting sick again. It doesn't seem too bad, but I hope she gets over it soon. I hate it when she's tired all the time – it makes me feel sad.
Daddy took us to the village near our house today. It was too dark to get there, so we stayed with a really nice family. There was a little boy there that was really nice. I think he's a little uncomfortable around girls, though – he kept giving me this weird look. Maybe he likes me!
We got to the mansion today. Daddy said it's called Hee-moo-row. I can't spell it, though…Himuro? I think that's right. It's a little messy, and there's a bunch of places where the floor or the ceiling are broken…it's creepy. And yet, at the same time, it's kind of cool. My very own haunted house!
Mommy seems to be feeling better today. When I was helping her unpack, I found this really cool old camera. She said that it was the only thing she had after she left her home village. When I asked her where it was, she got really quiet. I wonder what's going on there...
I asked Daddy about Mommy's hometown. He said that something really bad happened there, and that her memory was kind of fuzzy about it. He said that it was best not to bring it up, because then she would try and remember. When I asked him why she shouldn't remember, he got really sad. I'm so curious…but I guess I shouldn't talk about it. Maybe they'll tell me when I'm older.
Mommy showed me how to use the camera today! It's really cool. There are all these weird symbols on it that I don't really understand. Mommy says that they're "occult" markings – like magic, or something! We have a magic camera!
She let me take pictures with it, too. She took me out to the Cherry Atrium and let me take pictures of whatever I wanted! She even put some of them in her photo album.
I made friends with some of the kids in the village nearby. One of them is the boy that I met before – his name is Katsu. My other two friends are named Mitsuko and Yoshiko – they're both girls. They remind me a lot of my old friends from back home.
Daddy's been really happy lately. He said that he's finally getting somewhere with his studies. That makes me happy, too! I've gotten used to this house – it's not so scary anymore. Mommy still seems a little frightened, but I think she's growing comfortable here, too. Daddy…well, he was always happy here. Hee hee!
I found this really gross room in the house. Daddy calls it the Fish Tank Room. It's basically water with little wooden bridges over it. I'm not going over those! Not yet, anyway.
There are so many locked doors in this house! I want to know where the door at the top of the stairway goes…
Okay! This is a prologue, so it's kinda short. And if I kept going, I'd be eating into the story proper…so that's bad. 8P the story will expand to Yae and Ryozo – I'm just starting with Mikoto, because I really want to get the "eyes of a child" perspective going.
Valete!