[Yep, it sure is filtered away from Bowen.]

What makes a good birthday gift?

[Wait, let her amend that.]

What makes a good birthday gift for someone you really like?

[Hm. Could still stand to be a little clearer.]

What makes a good birthday gift for someone you really like that will leave them with no doubt of how much you like them?

[A girl is looking at the mirror with shock. She sees herself talking to Kairi after opening a dark portal back to Destiny Islands. How is this possible, she's here...yet there at the same time...? Namine looks down at the PORTAL that she dropped upon seeing the mirror. It must have turned on when it fell. She looks back to the letter that she had ( Read more... )

[There is nothing but silence for a long time when the PORTAL's owner seems to accidentally activate it. She's staring at the mirror in silent horror, not believing what she just read nor what she's seeing on the other side of the glass. A man with white hair that looks just like... Just like him, choking her body before dropping her and cluctching ( Read more... )

[There's a loud clatter as this person's PORTAL is sent to the floor and activates, right in time for a voice to be carried through it.] --what?! No!

[The speaker--shouter, really--appears to have run to the mirror in his room and is staring at it, his shoulders visibly trembling with barely-held back anger.] No... I can't be... this isn't--

[A ( Read more... )

[Well look at this. It seems that after somewhat literally dropping off the radar, a particular air pirate's come back. Whatever happened between last time he showed up and now, it's hard to say really. He's not gonna bother bringing stuff up unless prodded about it. But anywho, it seems he's got something planned now ( Read more... )

[Yeah, she's totally hiding her face. Maybe that's why she thinks her PORTAL is on Voice instead of Video.]

Oh.

Forgotten everything that was real and remember everything that wasn't. I've done both now. I wonder which is worse.

[She's quiet for a moment. There was even a little extra insult added to the injury.]

...You would think that in an ( Read more... )

I suppose it's only good business to announce the arrival of a new restaurant in the city.

[It's taken him longer than he really expected - he's been procrastinating over it, wasting hours wandering the city in the supposed search for a suitable building. In truth he's found several, but completing the rest of his plan bad felt too much like ( Read more... )

[ It's daytime but he's in his own place and not wearing his mask. ]

A poll, citizens! And this is an important one, a matter of life or deathRight, now that I have you. I have recently come to find out that I, Sirius Lee Black, am a member of the deceased. It's been confirmed in the bestselling story of my life that is apparently circulating ( Read more... )

Looks like that we will be stuck in this place for some time, or perhaps forever if Mr. Genero is right and we always belonged here. That said, it's come to my attention that many of the people that arrived here are quite young.

I find myself in need of a proper education, and since my place of solace is the boarding school I used to attend, I ( Read more... )

[Jean gasped and sat up quickly from his bed. Falling. The last thing he had remembered was falling. He remembered engaging Layton in a sword fight; he remembered mentally scoffing at Layton as the man in the top hat had grabbed a lead pipe to defend himself against Jean's sword, then silently swearing at Layton as they parried, Layton matching ( Read more... )