[.006] S ix. Apologies?
[Voice.]
...If I woke anyone up the other night, I want to apologize. I'm sorry for any trouble I caused.
( Private - to Riqis )
...If I woke anyone up the other night, I want to apologize. I'm sorry for any trouble I caused.
( Private - to Riqis )
And...you don't need to say sorry for anything. Bad dreams aren't something anybody can help.
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...I heard you talking to Ven the other day.
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[A low, careful breath]
What about that?
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...'Stand-in friend'?
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Yeah. I think he did, more than once.
Roxas, he...I guess he reminded Terra of Ven. But he's not. He's his own person.
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That's--... terrible.
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It's just...I shouldn't talk about Roxas, he always gets mad with me when I do. But this is important for you to understand.
Roxas has been here longer than anybody now. Axel's come and gone a few times, and he always forgets about it.
Terra's...sometimes he's been nice to Roxas, has taken care of him, other times it's like he doesn't really matter at all. Like Terra just wants to be left alone. Maybe he looks like an old friend, but...Roxas isn't that person.
He gets more bummed out about it than he lets on. I know...because Roxas and me are good friends. I notice when he goes off alone for a few days.
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[Now if only she'd noticed more quickly.]
Does that happen often?
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I think...I think he's alright with Ven now. But he's been sort of quiet lately. I guess...well. A lot of the old crowd's gone too. It's...
You can never count on people sticking around here forever. Roxas knows that better than anyone. And...And we can't really exist as our own people, if we 'go back'. I don't think I'd even be alive anymore.
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[She wanted to tell him not to say that, but--... he was right.]
...Then... we'll just have to hope that that doesn't happen.
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For people like me, and you, and Roxas and Xion. That was can have someplace to be our world to belong in.
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...Keep it.
[To keep something, for once. That would be--... she wasn't even certain she had the words.]
That-- that does sound good. This world is already something nice. ...especially with the people who are in it. [Most of them, anyway.]
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It's nice, sometimes. There's not as much stuff in this world as other ones. Food and things. It's nothing like- Oh you should have seen what Manhattan was like, when we all went there! (I'll show you in my memory scraps, some time.)
But if we could make it better, have it safer and nicer and if people didn't always come and go...it could be good place, couldn't it?
A real place, to stay and live in. Like other people have places to call home.
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Yes. It would be... wonderful.
[Too wonderful for her to even squeeze into words. And when they failed her-- instead she stayed quiet, let those thoughts and images and curiosities and-- never-to-be-called-feelings sink in, and tried not to let that creeping little voice in the back of her mind that whispered it could never be pry its cold fingers into that world. But oh, this barren place as it was was real enough for her-- more real than any place she could ever have expected she'd be allowed to even look at, much less touch.]
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[His pining is rooted in the sort of grit determination of a boy who still dares to daydream wildly about turning the whole world on it's heels all by himself. It's the same unthinking, surge of an instinct that took Riku beyond the islands...
But inverted. He wants a modest paradise of a home, and friends that fate lets stick around.]
But we'll see. We need to try hard to make this place better.
Hey, if you do want to see my memory-scraps, from the Big City...I can show you. Whenever you want.
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--I'd like to see them, very much. It sounds exciting.
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