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Who: Rise and ANYONE (will change this when it... changes), open to travel buddies or anyone in Azalea
Where: Azalea Town, near Slowpoke Well
When: Thursday, October 21, afternoon
Summary: Rise rests up and tries to overcome a D in Composition. Results vary. Action or Prose are both acceptable, as is interaction with anybody.
Rating: Probably G

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"That doesn't r-- huh?" Half-engrossed in the poor abused paper, Rise responded before she even knew she was responding, and then jerked a little in surprise once it sank in. She had to have been distracted if she hadn't even noticed Ven until he was standing right in front of her.

After a few seconds of staring, she rolled her shoulders back and sighed. "Does that mean you need my help with something, or that you're offering?" The resigned smile on her face was a pretty obvious indication that she already knew which one he'd meant, though.

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"Thank you... easier with... two..."

Oh. Amber eyes cleared abruptly. It wasn't just that Ven was volunteering his help, he'd also gone ahead and suggested--

Wow. Maybe she should have gotten more sleep last night; she'd completely missed that. Either that, or she'd just been friends with the Keyblade wielder too long. Things were starting to go over her head just as much as they did his (which was a horrifying thought, considering Rise was generally the one who didn't miss subtleties).

She gave her friend a sheepish smile, not sure he'd even see it when his gaze was on the sky, and wrote down the earlier sentence to see how it fit. She could work with the 'easier with two' part, it might flow better...

"And view and--" She pointed to his eyes. "Blue. That wasn't bad, Ven."

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Oh, Disney. Limited experience with certain movies and fairy tales aside, most of Rise's knowledge of Disney was being obtained from here. Which was just plain weird to think about, but after hearts and princess talk from Sora, and being told Minnie Mouse loved her, and everything from Ven, she was... getting there. She was getting less headaches, anyway.

A laugh escaped at the very thought of willingly writing poems, and she shook her head and angled the pad towards him so he could see it better; she wasn't embarrassed (bad as she was at this). "Song lyrics. I thought I might as well try and do something while I'm off my feet. But I'm... not that great at it." Curse you, Composition D. "I want to get my feelings out there, though. I just can't find the right words to do it."

Indeed, the entire page consisted of a few rhyming stanzas with scribbled out corrections and replacements for words, and the word dream in the corner-- the only place on the paper that looked remotely bare. She'd told Souji that she was writing all

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Rise stayed silent for a few minutes after Ven had finished speaking. She'd heard him, she just needed the ensuing quiet to think it through. And now that she thought about it, the lyrics she'd worked out with Yayoi had originally been just the two of them sharing their thoughts on the fog and the nightmares, and how they'd just wanted to make sure everyone knew it was over. That things would be okay. The technical stuff came later.

It was a valid suggestion, and one she really should have come up with before now. She'd just been so worried about making it look good that she'd forgotten the most important part: the feelings. The heart first, not the head.

"... You're right," she finally said, tipping her head back to rest against the well's edge. "If I can't even get down how I feel first, it doesn't matter how well it rhymes. It's not a song I'd be able to sing, anyway." She had to smile at herself, then at him. "It's what I want to say that needs to be out there, before anything else."

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"You still give me way too much credit," Rise joked with a playful nudge to Ven's side, even though she half-meant it. No one else had ever regularly (or ever) remarked that she was "too nice", and what Rise considered helpful was more along the lines of providing information about enemies and locations. That was harder to do here, but the experience had come in handy when it came to navigating through Union Cave. Half the time, she couldn't even think of when she'd said something helpful, because she'd spoken before she'd thought at all.

And explaining... that was more Naoto's forte. The 'girl stuff' came from teasing Kanji and telling him that one generally didn't declare "MAKE ME A MAN" to the object of their affections without a whole lot of progress first. Ven was just one of the few guys she'd met who remained innocent at fifteenRise's smile became a tad more thoughtful, and she wriggled down a little to try and get comfy against a stone wall. The attempt failed, but at least she'd tried. "Maybe if I try writing it like