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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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[Oh hello Raine. She listens quietly, taking her words into account and finding that she fully agrees.]

What about for the people who keep coming and going from this place? Does life continue for them, or do you think it's a huge loop?

They're still people. There are those who leave and return without remembering being here, and those who do keep their memories. While they're here they do experience being here, even if for a little while. Sometimes there are discrepancies, which are harder to grasp, from the perspective of one watching this go on, but ...

... I don't know for certain. It's not an easy thing to know the answer of.

What sort of discrepancies do you mean?

Well, instances such as them being from an earlier point in time, or a later one, having changed wing colors, or even having slightly altered recollections.

Oh. Those. [Yeah, she's familiar with those...especially when it comes to Sora. Riku, too.] In a way it's kind of good for us, too.

To have different viewpoints into other possibilities, you mean? Or something else?

The different viewpoints...it makes us really appreciate what we have at home, but it's also a good way to see how things can change if things were different. [Like her friendship she got to have with Axel.]

Hm. Fair enough, on that point. For the time that we're here, it is an ongoing learning experience.

What if there are some experiences you don't want to learn from?

You either learn from it, or you do not, whether or not it is a conscious decision.

Do you have any kind of regrets from this place?

Regrets are eventual in any world you live in. The question is whether or not you allow them to continue to haunt your life, or instead find other ways to live with them. Or simply ... having the strength to let them go.

It's a tough call in most situations, especially with the things that happen here on a daily basis. Maybe it's just me.

That's why there is no real answer to it. It's all circumstantial, whatever happens... but in the end if you do want a more personal change, you have to start somewhere with it, instead of expecting the situations to be any different.

I guess that makes just as much sense as any other advice. [She's just not sure all of her personal changes are good ideas.] Thanks, Raine. For pointing it out, I mean.

It's no trouble. I hope it has helped in some way.

It's given me a lot to think about.

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