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twilightfell

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Apr 11, 2009 20:26

[The Sphere is turned on very deliberately for once. Roxas isn't looking at it as it floats up into the air, getting a view of his surroundings ( Read more... )

anomaly: axel, anomaly: amaterasu, anomaly: naminé, cycle: 3, upset nobody is upset, anomaly: riku

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dawnward April 12 2009, 01:58:32 UTC

[Riku knows by now.

it takes some time, but eventually he steps onto the beach, walking quietly up to stand beside him]

twilightfell April 12 2009, 02:02:17 UTC

[he doesn't react. doesn't even move.]

dawnward April 12 2009, 02:10:33 UTC

[Riku's expression is blank, gaze empty as it rests on the slowly churning waves]

It's like waking up from a good dream. He's here and then gone, like he'd never been in the first place.

twilightfell April 12 2009, 02:55:27 UTC

... I know. I had dreams of him all the time, when I was searching. Even after I found him, it took weeks before I started to .. actually believe he'd still be there when I woke up.

dawnward April 12 2009, 03:17:40 UTC

Of course you never get to say good-bye.

[a small, nearly imperceptible sigh]

twilightfell April 12 2009, 03:29:57 UTC

... sorry.

dawnward April 12 2009, 03:53:41 UTC

Why are you apologizing to me?

twilightfell April 12 2009, 21:54:51 UTC

.. I lost my Other, but you lost your best friend.

dawnward April 13 2009, 01:55:13 UTC

[very quietly] I lost Sora a long time ago. Seeing him again was...a gift. A reprieve. I'm not sure if it was ever meant to last.

twilightfell April 13 2009, 02:00:00 UTC

[shoots him a sudden glare, sharp and almost .. offended. his brows are drawn down and a frown pulls his lips thin, but he doesn't say anything in reply.]

dawnward April 13 2009, 02:04:00 UTC

[Riku wasn't looking at him, but he could practically feel the glare when it hit him]

Roxas...if not for this ship, I wouldn't have seen him again. You know that better than I do. The last time we would have been together, just us and Kairi, would be when I was nine. Almost eleven years, now.

twilightfell April 13 2009, 02:08:19 UTC

.. [he heaves a sigh and looks away, rubbing the heel of his palm into his eye]

I haven't even been alive for eleven years.

.. you don't know for certain how the future will turn out, Riku.

dawnward April 13 2009, 02:14:03 UTC

[a small, empty smile; it's easy to forget how "young" Roxas is, even now, in comparison to him]

It's easy to say that. That the future is uncertain, or that we can still change it.

But I don't believe it. We already know that if we ever do leave, we won't remember this. History will continue the same way.

twilightfell April 13 2009, 02:16:38 UTC

[faintly] It will never stop being weird that I'm older than you are, but technically, I've only been alive about half as long as you have.

[shakes his head] We know what's going to happen, sure. But we don't know what happens after that. We don't know how all of this ends. Not yet.

dawnward April 13 2009, 02:26:15 UTC

I guess that makes me the old man in this situation.

[he's quiet for a little while, thinking that over] ...I know Sora will win. Him and Kairi, and you and Naminé, I believe in my heart that you will. But I do know that there's no way to bring a Nobody back. In over three hundred years, wouldn't the Organization have found it by now?

twilightfell April 13 2009, 02:29:46 UTC

[his rejoinder is instantaneous and firm]

And I am the first of my kind in all of those three hundred years. I am the first Nobody Keyblader ever to exist. Don't you think they would have found a way to create one sooner, if they could?

[quietly] Knowing Sora -- and what he can do -- there may be other firsts still coming.

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