Last night, I had this really bizarre dream that looked to be so much like Grave of the
Fireflies, (whom I watched with my little, four year old sister so many times) (that it
began from beginning to end that it started around Madlax and Margaret during this 1940s wartime somewhere in the depths of Japan or something.
(For those of you who watched Grave of the Fireflies, you might get it)
And it starts out as Madlax trying to tell Elenore to get to the shelter before the bombs
drop upon them but Elenore was pretty much being stubborn about it and saying "No I
won't, not unless I know that you would protect Miss Margaret." Then Madlax starts to get irritated and says that she won't break that promise and vows to protect Margaret no
matter what. Then, after pleading for Elenore to go to the shelter, Elenore agrees, merely
for Margaret's pleading as well.
Soon after Elenore's departure for the shelter and as well as for the bombing part, both
Margaret and Madlax went to the shelter but before both of them could go there, there
was a doctor who said his name is Charles Barkley and said that the other girl needed to
wait outside. Margaret begins to ask why but Madlax suddenly beat her to the punch and
asks her to wait outside with Carrossea Doon. Margaret agrees. Then, Madlax is asked to
see what is wrong with Elenore Baker and the doctor asks her to come with him and so
she did—only to find Elenore in bandages; looking gruesomely burnt. The doctor says
that Elenore is having some sort of heart failure due to the severe burning from the
bombing and that he asks Madlax to inform her next of kin and Madlax agrees. Madlax comes out of the shelter and Margaret runs to her, asking her if Elenore is okay, Madlax didn’t say anything except to say that Elenore is ‘resting’ right now and would probably be better by morning. Margaret however, starts to know something behind Madlax’s white lie and asks her if she’s going to die, Madlax says a strained yes, causing Margaret to weep over Elenore’s death.
After Elenore’s tragic death, Carrossea and Limelda took Madlax and Margaret in
because they would felt bad if they left them homeless but that was only for a short while
because people were suspecting that they were harbouring a homosexual couple. As those rumors started, they kicked them out. Madlax says that they are better off without them and Margaret becomes a little confused afterwards. As they try to take care of themselves and each other and the country was having a shortage of food.
Eventually Margaret was becoming weaker and weaker in the process, thinking that
Madlax may never come back while Madlax was off to steal blankets and food. Shortly
after, Madlax begins to feel guilty about stealing from civilians because she was
desperate for Margaret to live because it was a promise made to Elenore. (I couldn’t
remember anything else after that except for one vivid moment of this dream)
As Madlax goes to a bank to buy food and coming to the abandoned house afterward, she
eventually finds Margaret already dying during the whole time she went buy groceries.
Madlax urges Margaret to eat but she refuses, saying that Madlax can have it because she
is not hungry anymore and merely wanted Madlax to stay with her so she won’t have to
be alone again like last time. Eventually, the pleading of not wanting to be alone lead to
one thing after another, where Margaret smiles after being ‘fully complete’ and ‘loved’
from Madlax being by her side. (At first I thought it was a little bizarre for that to happen
but I started to understand of why because the loneliness and desperation Margaret was
experiencing.) Soon after her experience of being fully complete and loved, she died
suddenly the next morning, (from my guess, it’s from malnutrition and starvation)
Madlax felt saddened by her death and goes to a local shop that gives out cremation
boxes, (or something like that) then she puts Margaret’s body in the cremation box and
burns it.
The cremation lasted until nightfall, where she stares at the fading flames and dies soon
enough. At the ending, it starts with their ghosts, making the setting appear to be a
tearful, melancholic yet romantic moment where they danced in cocktail dresses.
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