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[todomarishi]

[Blinking down at the NV as the recording starts, Terra nods slightly and steps out the back door into his new yard. He sticks close to the house, away from the puddles yesterday's rain left behind.]

I was wondering if anyone's noticed an NV lying around... It's kind of a gold color, about the size of my hand. [He holds up his free hand for

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[lockandkeyblade]

[It's a long one, this message. And Sora sits through all of it, listening carefully and then shaking his head at the end of it all. It's a lot to take in.]

No, haven't seen anything like that but....

Terra. You've been through a lot, haven't you?

[The things he's been through here in Siren's Port is enough trouble to last a lifetime for most people.]

[todomarishi]

It's off to the south... southeast. [Aw, that just makes him uncomfortable.] Keybearers go through a lot, Sora.

[lockandkeyblade]

Well yeah, but I haven't gone through half the stuff that you have.

[He tilts his head. Southeast?] You mean that's where the tower in that other place was or...?

[todomarishi]

[You're still young...] Maybe you didn't need to.

No, where it is here. [Hey, that lighthouse looks suspiciously tower-like. Shape-wise.]

[lockandkeyblade]

[Admittedly, that's not something Sora wants to go through either. But it's pretty humbling to know this guy has.]

No way- there's one here too? That's not good at all.

You think everything that's happened in that other world before's gonna happen here too?

[todomarishi]

Same one, I think.

I don't know. It was a completely different world. Not a big city like Siren's Port.

[lockandkeyblade]

Maybe, but it never hurts to be prepared, right? Pretty big coincidence having the tower and the dreams here in Siren's Port too.

Did you find a way to stop it before you escaped?

[todomarishi]

That's what I thought. But one thing that doesn't add up is... Well, those dreams happened almost like clockwork back in World's End, but I've been in this city for a year and those are the first dreams I've seen here. The way people were acting afterward, it was like they'd never had them before.

... No. I tried to fight it, with the others who were still there in the end, but the monsters kept coming and even the most powerful Fire and Blizzard spells didn't slow down the vines.

[lockandkeyblade]

[A nod.] Yeah. Most of the people I talked to never had stuff like that happen to them. They were pretty shaken up.

So you never found out what happened then... You just ended up at Siren's Port...

[todomarishi]

Wouldn't say just ended up here. When everything was falling apart, our only option was to go to the tower. I [got kicked through] passed through the tower's door. With Oro. Then there was darkness and then there was the baseball field.