Day 517; [video]

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[Around sunset, the feed clicks on to show part of Siren's Port's skyline as seen from the top of a medium-tall building in Sector 3. After a moment, the camera tilts down and to the left to show a small pile of white paper airplanes. The camera follows along as a black-gloved hand selects one and tosses it off the building

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[Sora is frowning very disapprovingly at something offscreen, likely something that's distracted him just as he's turned on the feed.]

[Video] 2/2

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[He turns back to the camera, dutifully ignoring whatever's stolen his attention. The furniture can just lay off, because they're obviously wrong.]

[He's got more important things to attend to, and that's seeing just where both he and Roxas stand in this mess.]

[It's hard to know where to start, or even what to say with the way it all ended. But he does have one idea...]

Me and Riku used to make airplanes too. We used to make them in class. Then we'd sit up on the roof at school at lunch and see whose plane made it the farthest. Riku always won.

It takes practice to make something that goes really far, but I bet you'll get pretty good in no time.

[Video]

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[Roxas is more than a little apprehensive when he sees Sora over the NV; his Other's frown doesn't help.]

[But that goes away quickly enough, and he acts friendly enough, even after their argument, so...maybe Roxas can too.]

[There's still a guarded look in his eyes when he replies; the door between them they've slowly been opening is a little more shut after what happened. But it hasn't closed all the way.]

I can't really tell how far they go from up here. They're out of sight by the time they land.

[Video]

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[Sora is uncertain. Roxas is apprehensive. Sora sees it and it's all one big cycle of awkward. At least he's talking back. Beginning is always the hardest part.]

Yeah. It was a long time ago.

[He rubs the back of his neck with a laugh.] And it's not like you're up there trying to beat anybody anyway.

[Video]

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[He's almost surprised Sora wanted to talk at all. He's not the type to give up on people, Roxas knows. But part of him thinks it's a matter of time until he's the first.]

Guess it must have been.

[He shifts, awkwardness driving the urge to fidget.]

Nah. I've never run into anyone up here.

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

[Try not to fidget on the roof, okay? Sora's only got one other, and this isn't Neverland.]

Not a lot of people are good with heights. [Not like him and Roxas.]

I've always liked flying.

[Video]

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[You could probably put Xion in hat slot without too much trouble.]

It's a pain to get up here without a portal. Too many stairs.

You did it a lot?

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

[No way. Xion and Roxas are totally different. He's got two different friends and he wants to keep them both, mister!]

[Or... actually, he has one friend. And a hopefully-one-day-friend.]

Not really? A couple of times.

Me and Donald and Goofy were busy doing other stuff to really get a chance to fly at Neverland all that often...

[He laughs a little.]

[Video]

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[Maybe someday.]

I went...pretty often.

Oh, right. I guess you had to go all over the place. [He remembers.]

[Video]

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[He nods, but he has little regret.] I'd take finding Riku and Kairi over flying any day.

[Video]

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I know you would.

[He's not sure what else to say to that. Of course Sora would pick his friends over anything; otherwise, he wouldn't be Sora.]

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

I can kinda do something like it on most worlds, at least?

[Video]

[pullsheavendown]

You mean gliding?

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

Yeah. That's it! You can do it too?

[Video]

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Not here, but I could.

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

[He just laughs a little.]

[Such a small thing to be happy about. He feels silly.]