1st // [Video] Open only to actual muses in the game please.

[keyblade2face]

[Earlier, you might have seen a boy bolting through the court yard, looking like the hounds of hell were on his tail. To him, they might have well been -- maybe they still are, for all his luck. He had spent some time trying to find the place, too. Hopefully, he's safe here. He wouldn't have stopped for anyone, either. Not until he found a

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[earth_bonds]

[And he sees that face on the comm, nearly dropping Ends of the Earth because he'd been practicing. He feels that little extra bit of power come from the Wayfinder, and he nearly falls to his knees. That voice... Was it really-?

Then he's asking for him and Aqua. Terra immediately dismisses the weapon, studying the picture carefully... and almost laughing at the sheer irony. How he had started his first feed right in front of that building, if his guess was correct.]

Ven...? [He's most certainly smiling; he'd been hoping, adding a little more power into that connection and leaning on it since he'd come to after the last Mist attack...

If the picture's a bit bumpy, that's because he's running; trying to get to the library he's hoping his hunch is correct; hush, you.]

Yes. Much safer than out there, anyway.

[earth_bonds]

[And that's fine, because he's been worried sick for you and Master. But that face... he frowns, grabbing Ven's wrist and giving his little bro figure a very concerned look.

He knows the Mist... seen what it can do, feels the effects of it within him and all it does is make him worry even more. But he doesn't say that part; after all, Xehanort's the only one who knows that he has a heart problem thanks to it.]

Ven. [His tone is laced worry; the same worry he's had bottled up for months now.] I can't help if you don't tell me what's wrong.

[keyblade2face]

Just... I don't know if you can. I.... It's been months.. But -- it still haunts me. [In more ways than one. Months since he arrived at Berk. Months since he felt his Other. Months looking for safety - any sort of safety, away from both Vanitas and the Mist.

How can he tell Terra about the events - the terror, the fear, the loneliness in the Black mist's densest parts that led to him unlocking his own heart? He can't. Not because he doesn't trust him, but he's afraid of being judged. Of drawing his friends into something that He should be able to fix.] And I'm here, but I... I don't know if I'm really safe.

[Because wherever he's gone, Vanitas always shows up. And this time his friends are here, so he can't keep running.] But if you say it'll keep the Mist out... It'll keep it out, right?

[earth_bonds]

[Terra listens to Ven carefully, trying not to charge in at every point and say that he's wrong. But with every word the feeling of regret for not being there for one of his best friends--the guilt of falling, himself and not being able to tell his friends; it all stung.

He'd been there and still he had not found one of the few who mattered most to him. He couldn't judge the way he was, now.--Terra lets go, instead moving to rest his hand on Ven's shoulder and try to look the younger boy in the eye.]

It will. And if anything happens, Aqua and I are right here to protect you. [I won't let anything happen to you again. It went unsaid, but the worry made it obvious.]

You weren't the only one in this school that was lost in the Mist for an extended period of time; many of us know what it's like.

[keyblade2face]

Yea. And in turn, I'll look out for you as well. [He nods. He's not that sure of himself, and Terra can more than likely see that Ventus own light's just that much less then it was back when they where at home. But he's trying to put up a front for his friend. At least on the I'm not totally exhausted one.]

..Are you one of those people...? [Because if you are, he'd going to be rather worried about you. He saw his greatest fears in the mist. If you where in it... what did you see? No... why where you in it in the first place.]

[earth_bonds]

Just like old times? [He smiles faintly, wrapping an arm around Ven's shoulders in a brohug. Terra's keeping up a brave front, too; trying to hide the darkness in his own eyes and only somewhat succeeding. Though, there was a bit of the worry still there.

and that question... He shouldn't lie to his friend, but--] ...Once or twice, mostly to pull someone else out of it. [--he refuses to admit one other thing, though. For now, at least.]

/NOTIFS SUCK.

[keyblade2face]

Hmm. [A nod as he leans into the brohug. He'd missed you a lot Terra. Ventus just assumes that the darkness is because he's been in the mist one or two times. Nothing else.]

Ohh. I'm not sure how I got out, only that I did. I.... don't think I was in that deep. [Lies. He is. He knows exactly how he was brought out, and by who. And it's someone he hopes never shows up here.]

/THEY REALLY DO IN MY CASE OTL

[earth_bonds]

[If only it were just that, but alas; he keeps his mouth shut on his experience within it--just like Ven. The casual shrugging off of the issue of the Mist and how deep was 'deep' makes him inwardly cringe. It didn't matter how far in one was if they were within it at all.

...But at least, from what he could tell, the darkness wasn't inside Ven like it was him.]

At least you're safe, now. [Terra smiles faintly, having missed his little brother figure.] Need a little help getting settled in?

/pet pet. Get them sent straigh to your emial?

[keyblade2face]

[Oh no. His darkness has a body and is stalking/chasing him all over the world.

It's nothing to worry about, really.]

And in one piece. [A small laugh - and a flop all over Terra. Ha. Now try and move him.!] If you don't mind? I think I have to get a lot of supplies and stuff.

I forget to check my email. .__.;

[earth_bonds]

[...Sure it isn't. Ventus, why must your derp always worry him? :c]

Well, I can't very well do that with you on me. [He chuckles, going to move the younger one off him gently. Must... get free...! Okay, yeah. Need to train more if this is an effort.]