regained: day x (kanra's beach game)
taken: day x
witnesses: N/A

You're ten years old and today is a good day, a happy day, because you and the rest of the orphanage are going on a field trip to Ryan's Delights.

In later years the attractions would turn frightening and political, little more than thinly-veiled indoctrination tools, but at this time in Euphoria's life cycle it's simply a place where whimsy and good fun can be found for a reasonable enough price. The orphanage staff that's come along as chaperones pay the admission fees before setting their young charges loose.

There's enough money to go around for everyone to go on the rides a single time, to sample the fairground foods, to try their hand at the games of skill and luck at least twice. You win a prize (a stuffed teddy bear) at the shooting gallery, but give it to a younger orphan that's been looking on with a wistful expression, knowing that he needs it more than you do. You try the cotton candy and share half of your stick with someone else in exchange for half of their hot dog. You debate getting your picture taken with a costumed mascot and are eventually persuaded into doing so. You look through the giftshop's glass and dreamily imagine yourself able to afford the jacked-up prices, then drift away to another diversion.

It's a good day.

✿ content
● As a child, Jaguar was taken to an impressive amusement park called Ryan's Delights.

— Once again, everything is underwater, shielded from the ocean by the complex network of heavy glass and steel that encapsulates Euphoria.
— Aquatic creatures of all sizes, shapes and colors swim by at the perimeter of the amusement park as well as high above.

● The games are typical carnival games like a wheel of fortune, throwing darts at balloons, water gun shooting galleries, etc.
● Every orphan in this memory is a boy.