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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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Well...there are some people that come from worlds where they're so far advanced that Luceti's so small and primitive that they can't use their technology and can't adjust their lifestyle enough to be a replica of what it was before. On the other hand, there are the people that can life their own lives here instead of having their lives dictated for them. That's all.

Oh... I never thought about the technology thing before, but I guess that makes sense. It's kind of the opposite for me-- we don't really have much in the way of electricity in my world, so having all of that here is a pretty big change.

What else are big changes between your world and here, Emil?

Do you mean about the world itself?

Yeah, exactly.

Actually, aside from that it's pretty similar. The village here is a lot like the ones in my world. Maybe that's part of why I feel so comfortable here.

It probably also helps that you've been here for a really long time.

That too... it's easier to think of it as home when you've lived here longer than you did in the last place you lived in your world.

Wait, how long did you live in the last place?

You mean my town? Um... only six months.

Wow...that's not very long at all. Why so short?

I'd just moved there before I was brought here. But... I guess you'd feel pretty differently if you'd been living in your home your entire life.

I was on the island for about ten years before I came here. Maybe that's why it sounds strange to me, I'm not sure.

That is a long time... you must really miss your home a lot.

It's been a really long time since I've seen it. Even before coming here it had been a little while since any of us were really home.

Were you traveling a lot? I know what that's like...

The boys were. I was for a while...then I was home for a year and then I got tired of waiting and went after them.

I don't really blame you for that. A year is an awfully long time to be sitting around waiting for someone.

I guess I always thought they would come back on their own a lot sooner than that. Sora had promised he'd return, but Riku...he had to bring Riku back first. Things got drawn out and so when I saw a way off the island? I took it. Who knows how much longer it would have been before we were united again.

So did you end up finding them after you did leave? I mean, you didn't go to all that trouble for nothing... right?

It took a little while, and a few things happened that delayed it, but I found both of them around the same time. The three of us fought together and we got to go home after it was all over.

I'm glad. Friends shouldn't have to be separated from each other like that unless they're all okay with it. But that was really brave of you to go looking for them on your own.

Heh, thanks. I guess it's just...we need each other. All three of us. I need them and they need me. We'd all be hopeless without the support from the other two. I just knew I couldn't let them down.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have people who are like that for me too.

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