Rule of Rose Mysteries

There is a suitcase on the rug. The suitcase belongs to Jennifer. Is it the same one that she left on the bus at the beginning of this chapter? I don’t see why not… this is Jennifer’s dream and dream events need not follow the “rules” of the real-world. But the significance of the suitcase being here is not a significance for the dream-plot but rather for the story of Jennifer’s forgotten past. In Jennifer’s forgotten past, this room was at one time Jennifer’s bedroom.

In the “Once Upon A Time” chapter, Jennifer tells us, when “x” is pressed near this suitcase:

“When I came here, this suitcase was the only luggage I had… I lost everything in the accident. My mother, my father, all my possessions, and even my memories.”

It might seem that this implies that the Filth Room was Jennifer’s bedroom when she first arrived at the orphanage during her forgotten past. But I don’t think that it happened that way. In the airship chapters, we see a bunk bed in “sector 10: crew cabin” marked with an arrow and the words “new girl“. I interpret this as an indication that Jennifer was placed in the Dormitory with the other orphans when she first arrived.

I think that the Filth Room was a Filth Room when Jennifer first arrived, then it became Clara’s bedroom later, and then, after Clara “disappeared”, it became Jennifer’s bedroom.

See my blog-post: The Mysteries of Clara’s Cabin (Part 3): How Did Jennifer “Inherit” the Filth Room After Clara’s Disappearance?

But why would Jennifer’s suitcase be seen in the Filth Room at all if Jennifer was not given that room as her bedroom when she first arrived, but only “inherited” the Filth Room as her own bedroom much later? Shouldn’t that suitcase have been stored away somewhere?
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