3rd equation (night)= video/teneka

[aseparateworld]

[During the outburst of violence in the city, N had stayed, determined to help as many people as he could, exhausting himself in the process. After the monsters had vanished and the city had returned to what seemed to be its natural state, he had, without a word to anyone, left the city for the forest, taking his Pokémon friends with him. He had

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teneka;

[skyglide]

[Akito makes sure to keep the video off, and to keep the TENEKA limited strictly to mental speech - everything else he makes sure stays closed off.]

Your PORTAL is on.

[He doesn't know what else to say. It isn't something he particularly understands.]

You can leave it if it makes you sad.

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[aseparateworld]

[N looks up, startled for a moment, but he recognizes Akito's thoughts and calms. He blinks the tears from his eyes, unselfconsciously, then glances down at the PORTAL on his wrist.]

I didn't mean to turn it on.

[He shakes his head.] My friends are here. I can't leave them. [The PORTAL didn't show the Pokémon in the woods, but N knows they won't fit back in his apartment. He looks around the room, slowly. These are all his things, but he doesn't feel like playing with them. He glances toward the door, his mind for a moment filling with an image of Ghetsis, who'd so often stepped through that door to visit him (he wouldn't stay long), but there's no one there.] I could sleep outside.

teneka;

[skyglide]

That's what I meant. Just because that room is there doesn't mean you need to stay in it. My cage is in my place of solace, but I never go in it.

If you dream up a hammock or a sleeping bag, it would probably be really comfy outside.

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[aseparateworld]

I used to sleep in the woods often. I slept there when the monsters left the city, too. I like it there. I'll do that. But I'll know this is here. And my things-- [In spite of everything, he's still fond of them, but the fondness is part of what makes him truly sad, the sorrow permeating his love. He touches one of the cars of a train gingerly and makes it move a little way down its track.] I can't run away from it. I wish it had been someplace else that had appeared.

[He pauses.]

Why is there a cage in your place of solace?

[creepyfangs]

N... are you ok?

[obviously he's not, but what else can she say]

[aseparateworld]

[He looks toward the PORTAL, not embarrassed to be seen crying. he is glad to see Harper, though he doesn't smile.]

Hello, Harper. I found my Place of Solace as well. This is the room where I was raised. It brought back many memories of my childhood. [Although he lived here much more recently than that.]

[creepyfangs]

[N without that usual smile is someone disconcerting]

Childhood memories, huh? Are they... not that good?

[aseparateworld]

Some are good and some are bad, like anyone's childhood.

Yet there were some things about my past that I realized only recently. I was kept here in this room and not allowed to see other humans. I did not know that that was wrong.

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[limu_o_pele]

Then you shouldn't cry over him.

[She doesn't know who it is N's talking about, but she knows from that one sentence that whoever it is doesn't deserve anyone's tears.]

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[aseparateworld]

[He glances at his PORTAL, wiping tears away. His sorrow doesn't fade, but he is outwardly calm, in spite of his crying.]

Hello, Asha.

Perhaps that is why I am crying. Because he does not warrant tears, although he should. They took him away. I likely will not see him again.

[Shouldn't he love his father and want to see him? But then, is Ghetsis truly his father?]

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[limu_o_pele]

Hello, N.

[She's less quiet and uncertain than usual, her personality has been altered slightly by an accident with her abilities during the monster attacks. Before, she might have tried to be a little gentler with N's obvious upset, but now she falls to questioning it immediately - challenging it in an attempt to put a stop to it, caring in her own way.]

Do you want to? See him again.

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[aseparateworld]

[The direct questioning is actually something N responds well to, answering promptly.]

I would like to see him, for there are many things I would like to ask him.

But I do not know if want to see him for his own sake, and I believe he would not answer my questions.

[not_puppet]

[There's a long pause because this looks private and Cloud does not wish to intrude.]

Are you alright?

[aseparateworld]

[He hadn't expected to hear from anyone, but he takes a moment to recover himself and replies.]

I am well, Cloud. This is my Place of Solace.

I was remembering my childhood. I see it now, in a different light. So much has changed since last I was here.

[not_puppet]

Nothing ever stays the same. People change. Places too. When I think back to my childhood [what little bits of it Cloud remembers...] it doesn't really feel the same as it did back then.

[aseparateworld]

Yes, it is interesting, this place has not changed at all. It is the same as it has been for years, yet my vision has changed, and now I see it in a completely different light.

It might as well be another room entirely. As familiar as it is, it is strange as well.

What was your childhood like, Cloud?

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[yinblack]

[there's first a sigh of relief.] N you really shouldn't disappear like that, it's really worrying--

[he goes quiet though. he remembers that place. it was in the castle, a room which looked to belong to no more than a child, with toys that looked to be constantly played with. very recently too at the time.

N's room.

a concerned look surfaces once the male begins to cry, any uncertainty Touya may have had disappears and he manages to pipe up. a question that leaves him that he said without much thought.]

Would you like company?

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[aseparateworld]

Did I disappear?

[N turns to his PORTAL. Touya's voice is the voice he'd most like to hear right now, though he doesn't quite smile, tears still in his eyes.]

If you would like to come, I'd like to see you, Touya.

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[yinblack]

In a way.. You went quiet for a while, I almost thought something had happened.

[His chest tightens, but he doesn't hesitate in nodding.]

Just tell me how to get there and I'll be there as soon as I can.

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[aseparateworld]

Oh. Yes. I was in the woods with Anna for a few days. She needed companionship.

I will send directions. [He uses the PORTAL to transmit them, then pauses.] I will wait on the outskirts of the woods. It will be dangerous there for you until I have taught my friends to identify you.