Forty-Eighth Shower - [Voice/Action]

[meteorical]

[Action]

[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.]

[Voice]

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.

[Filtered to Riku]

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

Comments

[allseeingdeath]

I guess, I don't really do anything. Just walk around.

A friend is a friend. I've never had anything different.

[meteorical]

At least it's good exercise. [Come on, lighten up a bit, huh?] Have you been here long?

...what does that mean, exactly?

[allseeingdeath]

Three months.

I don't have many friends. But the ones I do have are equally important to me. I don't think there has to be a distinction.

[meteorical]

That's a decent amount of time, I'd say.

I guess there really shouldn't be. [But for her, there definitely is. Sora and Riku always and forever will be her best friends, but without Sora here...] I guess it's just a habit of putting some before others.

[allseeingdeath]

Yeah. [ Well...Mikiya isn't the same as Kotomi. Or Enjou. Maybe there is a difference. ] Maybe. What makes you ask, though?

[meteorical]

It's nothing really specific, just something I've been wondering for some time now. [Kind of a lie, anyway.] I know a lot of people here that are close to people back home. I wanted to see how everyone felt being split from the ones they're most comfortable with.

[allseeingdeath]

Hmm. I don't think anyone likes it, but...nothing we can do about it.

[meteorical]

People are working on it. Ways to escape and get back home, I mean, but I don't know if they've made any real progress.

[allseeingdeath]

I've heard about that. I would just cut the barrier around this place, but...

It's really annoying what they did to our powers.

[meteorical]

A lot of things they've done to us here are pretty annoying.

...what sort of powers are you used to having?

[allseeingdeath]

[ She didn't usually tell people, but...it wasn't as if anyone could do anything about it now, anyway. And this girl didn't seem like an enemy. ]

I can see the lines of death, and cut them. Basically, I could kill anything.

[meteorical]

[...well that could be useful...] For the greater good?

[allseeingdeath]

For whatever, really. I worked for a mage. I guess you could say we did it for the greater good, since all we killed were other murderers.

But for some reason, I can't see the lines here. Not without feeling pain and getting a strong headache. Believe me, I've tried many times.

[meteorical]

It might have something to do with the power cap. Everything's about halved around here, and though some people might get stronger the longer they're here, it's never really a full one-hundred percent unless you're outside the barrier.

[allseeingdeath]

Hm. I see.

I can still fight. It seems like whatever the power cap is, it only affected my eyes. Physically, I'm fine.

Do you have any powers?

[meteorical]

That's better than I thought. Good.

I don't know if I'd call them powers...but I can use a certain kind of weapon that most people can't.

[allseeingdeath]

Oh? Like what?

[meteorical]

It's called a Keyblade. Only a few people are selected to wield it, but the properties and skills it gives are kind of endless.

[allseeingdeath]

I see. So it's unique to it's wielder?

[meteorical]

A lot of times, yes. It also depends on which Keychain you have on it. A friend of mine has a whole set and every time he swaps one out for another all of the properties and the looks change. [The physics of how the Keyblade works exactly still confuses her a little. She's one of the newest bearers, after all. But it makes sense. Riku's took on a shape of its own. Hers did, too.]

[allseeingdeath]

Hm, I see.

It actually looks like a key too, I'm guessing? I just fight with a knife.

[meteorical]

It actually looks like a giant key, yes. I could show you sometime if you'd like.

[allseeingdeath]

That would be interesting.

Do you train often? To keep from being rusty?

[meteorical]

I wouldn't call it often...maybe once or twice a week. It definitely helps though. It's not exactly an easy weapon to maneuver.

[allseeingdeath]

I see. That's pretty interesting. I'd like to see it. Like I said, I only fight with a knife.