Twenty Third Hope [Video]

[good_breakfast]

[You see Hope looking pretty down, but he isn't crying and he actually posted this to the public network on purpose. Progress. Sitting contentedly in his arms is Kai the baby Kangaroo.]....Light's gone.... again. That's everyone from Cocoon except me. Snow, Vanille, Fang, Lightning.... I'm the only one left. I depended on them all so much back home

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[whosyour_rikku]

You gonna be ok?

[good_breakfast]

[A pause while he takes a deep breath.]

Yeah. I... I can handle this.

[He's putting on a brave face, but there's some hesitation there.]

[whosyour_rikku]

Do you wanna talk 'bout it?

[good_breakfast]

There's nothing to talk about. They're gone, but... they'll be back. I have to keep thinking that.

[whosyour_rikku]

[Taking so much willpower not to press the matter further... and by so much, I mean she has to literally bite her tongue not to say anything else.

Proof of this is her mumbled, barely coherent reply:]

If errrr sherrruh.

[good_breakfast]

Uh... are you okay Rikku?

[whosyour_rikku]

Yuh, why woundt I be?

[good_breakfast]

Well... you're talking kind of funny.

[whosyour_rikku]

N'um nut!

[good_breakfast]

You're doing it again.

[whosyour_rikku]

[Figuring she should take some time to compose herself before saying anything more (she needed to be sure she wouldn't press it), Rikku stays silent for a couple of minutes. She looks like she's thinking about something really hard, and her hands keep moving around as if she's mentally on to something.]

Peanut butter!

[good_breakfast]

Peanut butter?

[whosyour_rikku]

[Alas, her voice is magically coherent!]

Yeah! You ever heard of it? It's super yummy, but if you eat it too fast your mouth feel like it's full of glue and when you try to talk you just sound all fwoswoobuh-ly... ish... well, you know what I mean, you heard it.