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[goingapostle]

[is staring intently at the barrier from a spot on a tree. because trees are edgy and cool]

(( drop post, open ... until I get distracted by something shiny, I'm sure. ))

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[babesinthewoods]

*is staring intently at the tree from a spot on another tree*

[goingapostle]

Ringo ... I believe you can understand what time has arrived.

[babesinthewoods]

*nods.... slowly*

I knew you wouldn't come out here for no reason...

[goingapostle]

Yes. The information was quite abrupt, and I thought that if it were true, it would be better to perceive the situation myself before alarming you. Unfortunately, it appears I have already done that.

... My apologies, Ringo.

[babesinthewoods]

It's alright.

*squares her shoulders*

I'm ready to leave whenever you are!

[goingapostle]

[hesitates for a moment]

We were never meant to walk the same path ... In truth, I have always intended for you to go on after me.

[babesinthewoods]

What? Intended? But- if you need to go back to the Tower then so do I, right?

[goingapostle]

We will both be there for the tournament, Ringo, but what will come after that ...

Your strength will show then, and you must be prepared. This is a place that may be able to prepare you, as you are able to live side-by-side with the ones you care about most.

[babesinthewoods]

Mm.

But I care about you too...

[goingapostle]

You must understand, Ringo.

There was a time when I chose you only for what you were capable of, and believed in you for that reason alone. Though you were the sister of Rika ... it was a time when I only believed in what would result with Takeuchi Sora, when the war finally began and we would fight him.

That ... has changed. I do not regret my choice. You are important, as someone who will carry out my dreams, and be as strong as necessary. To say you must believe in yourself beyond your care for me is inadequate, but it is the closest comparison to the truth. My concern for your own life to be freed from that tower remains. I wish for you to not follow those steps; I wish for you, too, to not be chained, and to understand that there were potentially times where I was wrong.

... In a way, I believe you already feel this, as you long to fly alongside Minami Itsuki, but I wish for you to no longer hold yourself down.

[babesinthewoods]

I-

[babesinthewoods]

I don't think what you're fighting for was wrong! And it could still happen! I'm always going to be ready, and I'll be on your side... I promise. But, of course you knew that too, so...

[babesinthewoods]

... it's about if I could stop holding back with Ikki....

[babesinthewoods]

[goingapostle]

[hesitates, and then leaps over to Ringo's tree, landing lightly and barely causing the tree to be disturbed]

I will always be tied to this earth, Ringo, no matter where I am. No matter how much I look to the sky as I did that one day when we were released from the tower, I know where my place is. You are different, and there is a strength in you that will allow you to soar.

... Your strength makes it so you do not need to turn your back on those who still matter to seek your place in this world, or end up doing so and, in the end ... deny who it is that you are.

[babesinthewoods]

... *nods, hand held over her heart*