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[Today if anyone's wandering into Seventh Heaven, they'll find Kairi sitting at a table by herself. Thanks to Sanji, she's agreed to pick up a few shifts at the restaurant as a part-time waitress. She's just finished her shift for the day and she's got her Luceti-provided journal open in front of her, along with a sheet of what looks like purple paper. She had leafed through the pages of the Luceti journal, checking on the village, but now she's occasionally writing lines on the purple page. If anyone were to get close enough to look, they'd see:

Thinking of you, wherever you are. It's been a little over two months since you left...almost three, actually, but I still think about you every day. I think we all do.

[She pauses in her writing then upon realizing two things. A.) This is very much like a letter she wrote to Sora about fifteen months ago and B.) It's been almost three months since the brunette left. It felt weird the longer she thought about it, thinking about how close she had become to some people and how distant she was starting to feel from the boy who was...no, is her best friend.

It disturbs her, in a way. Enough to cause her to push the letter aside, turning her attention back to her Luceti-journal to address the public. Her voice is pretty casual, but anyone who knows her well enough may notice there's a slight hesitance.]

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What would you consider a good balance between making a life here in Luceti and keeping your life in your own world in focus? I mean in the sense of...well...let's talk about jobs for instance. Do you think it's important to make yourself useful here, or would you rather wait until you go home since it may not matter once we leave anyway?

Or friends, even. Do you only call people from your world your best friends, or have you made new best friends here?

[She pauses, trying to think of how to wrap this up. Keep it casual, keep it light.] It's not really a big deal, I'm just kind of curious what everyone thinks.

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...can I talk to you about something? Just when you have some time.

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That depends on many variables. It is better to be of use, but not so much that your leaving would leave a hole in the community. It is better to find and build connections with villagers here, but not to the extent where they would be devastated by your absence. That would be the ideal balance.

...I can say that, for the latter at least, I have failed.

What makes you think that you've failed? [That sounds like a hard thing to balance, but still.]

While I do think 'devastated' is a strong word- I know my leaving would upset the friends I have made here a great deal.

And would their leaving upset you?

...Everything here is temporary. I would miss them but- it is better for them to return to their worlds. [A beat.] but I do not think I would take their leaving well, no.

I'm not sure I can agree that it's better for everyone to return to their worlds, but I see your point.

Have you had friends leave yet?

A few, yes. Only one upset me overmuch- but. It is for another reason entirely.

...another reason?

It's not mine to say. But. Others have left, and after that first I have been better prepared for coping. Their lives are meant to be lived in an uninterrupted timeline. Not. Stagnant, here.

So long as they're safe, all we can do is wish them the best. Saying goodbye never gets easier though, does it?

No, it doesn't. But it's the same here as it would be at home. No one is ever truly ready to say goodbye.

Have you said goodbye to a lot of people at home, too?

...Does it count as a goodbye if they aren't aware that is what it is you are telling them?

I guess that depends on the circumstances...you mean if a person's unconscious or something?

No. I mean to say that I spoke, and meant it as a goodbye but did not say the words explicitly.

I wouldn't say that counts, unless you have no intentions of ever seeing them again at all.

It is less that I didn't intend it and more that I simply...knew. that I wouldn't be able to do so.

[That's...really kind of sad, Adele.]

I'm not sure if that counts. Things can always change, can't they?

Perhaps. [A beat, and now she's terribly maudlin. Not proper conversational company at all.] One never knows. I will...have to think on this. Thank you, though, for your point of view.

Of course. Sometimes I find it helps to ask these sort of things...get others to start thinking too, you know what I mean? So I'm glad it was some kind of help.

Provoking questions are needed once and awhile. I think we could do with them more often. Thank you.

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