A doll watching its witch as she dredges old messages.
Direct messages between her and not-anymore-friends.
Worried, the doll asks her why.
The witch calls it a "cultural salvage operation".
A search for stories and ideas that she wrote but never safely archived.
Stories and ideas written for not-anymore-friends.
Respect, of course, paid to the thousands of laughs and tears they shed together -
That what they created together isn't left to waste.
Bitter and sour memories be damned.