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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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[She's not even sure why she finds herself answering, quietly.]

You don't stop living while you're here.

Keeping home in mind is always important, but life still continues. You grow, you change... and eventually, you may get back there, with or without these differences.

... but life continues.

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.

I think it doesn't matter whether you're here or back in your own world. [A sappy smile accompanied by a soft voice.] Living your life is living your life.

...Well, for whoever's your best friends, it depends on how close you are to them. And how you feel about them.

[No one in Luceti really reach "best friend" status for Kouki. Atsuro will always have that role, in his opinion. Some people came close, but...time and life in Luceti happened.]

I just live life here as I like. I keep myself busy and make friends with anyone that don't mind me.

Hey, I've got time. What's up, Kairi?

I think it all matters to what you want. We're not going anywhere, and we don't know how to leave. Might as well do something with yourself here.

And friends are friends no matter where you are.

I don't see why you should have to stop doing the things you want to do just because you aren't in your own world right now.

I think it just becomes depressing if you don't try to keep living while you're here? Remembering home and the people you love is good, but it's going to be painful because you can't go back.

[Sanji hears her announcement, though not through the journals. It's mostly quiet in the restaurant, and to keep himself preoccupied - keep his mind off the ill-reminder of death and Kotetsu's progress - he bears up arms (or in this case a rag) and begins wiping down the tables now that Kairi is off her shift.

And once he's close enough to her table, he lingers, and answers one of her questions with his stare directed elsewhere] Aa. I've got a lot of close friends here. [A pause] Most of them I probably won't see again, whenever we go back home.

Hey, new gir-- uh. Kai...ri. Yeah Kairi.

[Rin isn't quite off shift, but he's breaking his time in the kitchen (chef) to get a conversation going with one of the new-er hot waitresses here. In fact, he's going to pull up and sit at her table, ticking his tail out of the way as he does]

[Hmm, that's an interesting question.]

I think, wherever you are, it's important to be a contributing member of the community. Even in Luceti, where so much is provided, there's still things that need to be done. People that need to be helped.

Just because you're bound to leave and forget this place doesn't mean that what you do here won't matter. If you can just make things a little better, make people a little happier for a while, that's important. You should think about the past and the future, but you shouldn't make the mistake of forgetting the present.

I'd say I've made a best friend, here. And it's depressing to think that I'll never see her again after Luceti, but all I can do is enjoy the time we have.

[Castiel will be able to see what she's written, because he's going to stand over her table and read it without even trying to be discreet.]

[ He's not entirely sure why he feels the need to throw up a filter, but he does. ]

Do you think... everyone should want to go back to their own world?

Speaking as a person who, quite literally, has nothing to return to, I believe it's best to make the best of the time you have here. Even if you have something to go home to, why just sit around doing nothing?

Who knows, you could wind up better than your future self here.

[Feels weird being the one who sounds kinda sentimental. But he's just saying what he feels]

I don't see anything wrong with making best friends here as well, eh?

I think it's important to be useful or at least do something around here. Even if it doesn't matter when you go back home, you're still here. It seems silly not doing anything here.

Before I arrived here I hadn't been home in about five months. While I was away part of me was always still back home, though. Here it's sort of the same. Of course everything here still matters, and you can always make an impact, whether it's on the planet or in peoples' lives. As long as you don't lose yourself and don't forget the people who are waiting for you, maybe it will balance out.

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