028 // Action // 4th WALL EVENT MINGLE!!

[principal_mouse]

[The quad is decorated with banners and streamers of all sorts. Big bold letters decorate them all:

Welcome to Disney Academy's Open House! There's food set out as well as signs directing visitors everywhere, including temporary housing facilities, the academy's various locations as well as transportation off campus

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[realizethewish]

[All that stuff wasn't there yesterday.

Don't mind Kairi as she ignores her freakishly horrific pile of homework and goes out to see just what's going on with her own eyes.

Since she's a little preoccupied with taking in all the festivities, she may not exactly be paying attention to where she's going. Please forgive her if she bumps into you.]

[reflectivedawn]

We're in a place called Adstringendum, Kairi. Don't you remember anything I told you about the Animus?

[realizethewish]

W-what?! Riku, I don't know what you're talking about. We're at the Academy. Look around you... We're in the quad right now.

[reflectivedawn]

[Welp. Excuse him while he runs a hand over his face.]

This is the weirdest event ever.

[realizethewish]

That's for sure...

I don't know what the headmaster was thinking, hosting something like this; he didn't tell anyone it was going to happen, either. [Of course, Kairi's thinking of "event" in terms of "fiesta", sans the celebratory connotations.

She's still worried about you, though, Riku. Her current countenance might betray just that.]

[reflectivedawn]

Maybe the Animus are behind it. This kind of thing is right up their ally.

[Sigh. He sees that look, Kairi.]

[realizethewish]

What are the Animus, Riku? It is some fancy word for Strangelings?

[reflectivedawn]

They're the spirits who control Adstringendum.

[realizethewish]

...Riku, there are no spirits here. And there's no Adstringendum.

Maybe the Mist put you into a nightmare world when it hit the Islands two years ago...?

[reflectivedawn]

I've never been here before, Kairi.

[And this is the worst joke ever.]

[realizethewish]

What are you talking about? Of course you have. I met you for the first time in two years in the libary, and we share a dorm room...

[If only it were a joke...]

[reflectivedawn]

No. You just showed up a couple of days ago. You were still waiting for me and Sora to come back to you.

[realizethewish]

No, I was invited to attend here, and left the island after you two dissappeared in the Black Mist storm.

[reflectivedawn]

You were looking for us?

[realizethewish]

I tried to... the mayor wouldn't let me search off of the Islands, though; but I did try to keep the search going for as long as I could. [Eventually, people gave up on her cause; two years is an awfully long time to search for people, especially those who were more than likely lost to the Mist.] He finally let me leave when I got the invitation to come here.

But Sora was already here when I arrived... and then you showed up not long after.

...You really don't remember coming here, do you?

[reflectivedawn]

[He listens carefully, as if the words would stir some memory but he finds nothing.]

The last thing I remember before going to Adstringendum was being in the Dark Margin with Sora.

I don't remember being here at all.