Forty-Eighth Shower - [Voice/Action]

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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.]

[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

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[meteorical]

[She's thinking of a couple of people.]

Did you know there's a lot more of those people than you'd think? It's almost really sad.

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[personafalsify]

... I had a feeling. This place can't really be all that bad, right?

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[meteorical]

...in some ways, it's bad. But in most ways? It's really not.

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[personafalsify]

Yeah. And it's... like a second chance. People don't... get that often.

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[meteorical]

I think you and I are thinking of the same people, aren't we?

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[personafalsify]

... At least one person, yeah.

[ He doesn't know if Kairi knows about Ion. Or if she realizes he's talking about himself, too. ]

[voice/failfilter]

[meteorical]

I've got a few in mind. [Namely, Axel, Kohan and Xion. Maybe Luke, too.]

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[personafalsify]

Like who?

[ ... Oh, wait, that's... really personal, isn't it. ]

... Sorry. Nevermind.

[voice/failfilter]

[meteorical]

...it's okay.

...Axel's one of them, you know.

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[personafalsify]

Yeah, he... told me about that. I just... it's hard to believe he's, you know... [ gone. Now that he's not here. ]

Or that, that's how it is for so many people.

[voice/failfilter]

[meteorical]

The number keeps growing and growing...

I'm kind of surprised he told you. [Not in a bad way, but in a way of Axel's usually pretty good with secrets.] When was that?

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[personafalsify]

It was right before he left. Well, before my birthday, but... he left soon after that.

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[meteorical]

He must have trusted you a lot to tell you. Did he tell you how and everything?

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[personafalsify]

No... Just that he made that choice, or something.

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[meteorical]

..."that choice"?

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[personafalsify]

... Yeah. I don't know, it's what he said. I didn't... really ask about it.

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[meteorical]

...it was a hard choice, but it was one that had to be made. [She wasn't exactly sure how to feel about it when she'd first found out.] Don't ever tell him this if he comes back, but...it was kind of brave.

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[personafalsify]

Brave?... Why? [ Oh now he's kind of curious. ]

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[meteorical]

[She falters a bit.] I mean...I'm not really sure it's my place to say.

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[personafalsify]

... Oh. Sorry... for asking.

[ Awk. Ward. ]

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[meteorical]

No, I mean...it's okay. It's not anybody's fault. I just don't want to say anything inc ase Axel comes back. He's apparently done it before.

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[personafalsify]

You mean... like if he doesn't remember. Like the others. [ Aqua. Sora. Namine. ]

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[meteorical]

From what I know? He remembered the last time he left and came back. But...yeah, like the others.

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[personafalsify]

He was here for so long...

I wonder... why some people remember, when others don't.

[voice/failfilter]

[meteorical]

I guess that depends on what can effect the memory.