2.1; voice

[binarysky]

[Residents of the City who happen to be checking out the network around this time will hear a very loud **thump** as a teenage boy suddenly lands where there was no teenage boy a moment ago.]

Oof...what?

[There are a few moments of silence and shuffling as Roxas feels around to make sure he's solid. He's as surprised to be as he is surprised to

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1/IDEFK SCREAMING

[faroffdream]

[ Oh he knows that voice of course but it's hard to expect people to come back. He always keeps in mind that it's possible, because it's better to be hopeful, but with Roxas especially he hadn't been sure what was the 'right' thing to want, had only been able to tell himself what was true - that he would've liked more time, that they'd been becoming friends.

That he liked learning it was as possible as he'd hoped. ]

[faroffdream]

[ DEVICE DEVICE WAIT NOT VIDEO WAIT VIDEO? NO NOT VIDEO AUDIO DFKLDSLFJLS FUMBLING and when the feed turns on there's sort of a scrambling noise of plastic on concrete - or whatever the device is made of anyway.... ]

[faroffdream]

You came back!

[faroffdream]

How--- when--- you still remember---

[faroffdream]

[ FULL SENTENCES SORA, DO IT. YOU CAN. YOU TOTALLY CAN.

He pauses, BREATHES. ....exhales. ]

Uh---

audio ][ done

[faroffdream]

Hey....wait, are you okay?

Rough landing?

What do you know about-- did you--

You sound different. More like...

1/2 b/c why not

[binarysky]

Sora!

[ And he sounds happier, more relieved than he ever has before. ]

[ Way more than he did the first time they went through this. ]

audio ][

[binarysky]

I'm fine. It's, ah, a little sore where I landed, but I'm okay. [ He quietly rubs at his butt. Ouch. ]

And yeah, I do. It's almost like...waking up from a dream, when it takes a minute to remember what's real.

[ Except wasn't what came before the real world? ]

Or maybe waking into one. How long has it been?

1/2

[faroffdream]

You sure? I mean, it seemed---

[ Pause... ]

How long? Oh. Um let's see...

audio ][ 2/3 I LIED

[faroffdream]

Five days. Ish.

audio ][

[faroffdream]

But....it was longer for you.

Wasn't it?

[ Roxas sounds happy to hear from him for one, not apprehensively so or tentatively like Sora might have expected despite having made the hurdle to being friends, to being open to the idea. This sounds different.

Like he knows better who he is maybe, and Sora doesn't know what question to start with beyond are you okay? ]

audio ][ 1/2

[binarysky]

Five days? Are you serious?

[ It's almost comical, the surprise and disbelief in his voice. It's on his face, too, in person. ]

[ But knowing what they both now know about their intertwined pasts and futures, it's not funny. It's serious. ]

audio ][

[binarysky]

[ ...well, maybe a little funny. ]

It was. It was a lot longer.

1/2

[faroffdream]

[ For a moment there's just silence other than the usual general noise of the City, Sora adjusting the device in his hands.]

audio ][

[faroffdream]

What happened - before you got here?

1/2

[binarysky]

What happened...?