Our Life 2: Step 2 Prologue Preview Script Snippet

So, this is a new kind of post around here, haha. It's a preview of the script itself! This lets me show more of a scene than screenshots could. Let me know if you'd like to keep seeing these as part of the update rotation throughout OL:N&F's development or if it'd be better to share story things in screenshot form only.

Also, here's the text not in image form, if that makes it easier to read:
“The transition of seasons brought about an entirely different atmosphere. There were sights and sounds and feelings that could only happen during a few months, before they were gone for a year.”

“Other familiarities were lost to time for good, never to come back, but instead for their absence to eventually become old in their own right.”

“You knew that acorns were beginning to fall along with the leaves, and that Bob’s Barber Shop on Main Street closed eight months ago, and that everyday there was a new rumor on what was going to replace it.”

“Nothing concrete had been announced yet, but any day now for sure.”

“Mrs. Baumann was stubbornly convinced it’d be a restaurant- an Italian restaurant. The town needed one of those, she would insist.”

“Yeah, that was less about what she thoughtwould actually happen and more what she wished would come to be.”

“Circumstances were never as perfectly straightforward as stuff that was the “same” and things that were “different”, or what you could be “certain of” and what you were “believing in”.”

“You could have a piece of your world that had been ever-present, something that hadn’t gone away for a moment, yet right before your eyes it could stop being what you’d originally known.”

“The example that came to your mind, that you had been imagining from the beginning, was your left and right next-door neighbors.”

“Both Qiu and Tamarack were the same people you’d seen basically every day for four years.”

“No single one of those days did you decide they weren’t Tamarack or Qiu anymore. Of course, they always were literally who they were.”

“But after everything they’d learned and seen and from the basic concept of getting older, the two were pulled into certain… directions. Little by little. It couldn’t be caught looking back a week, or a month.”

“Still, if you paused to remember them from your first meetings and compared that to who you expected to encounter that day, you could see it clearly- starkly.”

“They had changed.”