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[freehugging]

...Riku? Sora?

[This...wasn't the World That Never Was. The concern's expressed on her face as she looks around. She couldn't have possibly made a wrong turn, right?

Is that even possible?

She looks down past the Seal, thinking.]

This can't be home, right? [Hm...] ...I don't know whether I should stay here and wait for them, or go on--

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1/? [Reaction]

[tiny_promise]

[Kairi? That... Is that...!?]

2/? [Reaction]

[tiny_promise]

[...WHEN DID KAIRI GET BIG!?]

3/? [Video]

[tiny_promise]

Kairi! Is that you!?

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[tiny_promise]

Well, I mean, of course it's you!

[truerfaith]

You are lost?

[said so from behind and above, after her voice echoed off of the seal in his hand. the source remains aloft, having no desire to startle her much more than he probably could at that point. both hands are visible and held aloft enough to attest to any lack of weapon.]

[freehugging]

Ah--

[She turns around to see the one behind her. She backs up just a little, but just for a moment. He...didn't seem bad.]

Yeah, I guess you can say that.

[truerfaith]

[he smiles, landing quietly. the unoccupied hand rests on his chest.]

I am called Saint Walker. I heard your voice through this...[his other hand tilts to expose the seal.] Though I do not know how I came to have it. I will help you, if I can.

[freehugging]

It's nice to meet you, Saint Walker. I'm Kairi.

[She looks at the Seal, and frowns thoughtfully.] I'm not...sure how I got it either. If you can help though, I'd really appreciate it.

[chainedpromises]

[Well...this is going to be hard to explain but here goes nothing.]

Kairi?

[freehugging]

[Oh, someone familiar!]

Naminé? You're here too?

[chainedpromises]

Yeah, it's kind of hard to believe, but I am.

[freehugging]

It's great, though! Where are you now?

[video]

[soldierofhalla]

Well, I don't know about your home, but it's not mine. You're not from a place called Splendor are you?

[Greetings from a slightly disheveled looking older teenager. He does not seem at all phased by this situation, though he may look a BIT worried. Mostly he just smiles]

I haven't found out much myself...I just got here.

[video]

[freehugging]

No, I'm not. So this place is called Splendor?

[Well that's quite a difference than how she looked and felt.]

May I ask where you came from?

[video]

[soldierofhalla]

That's what I was told.

Me? I'm...from Earth. Stony Brook to be exact...[He's still trying to figure out how much everyone knows about other worlds...sadly in the short time he's been with his seal he's noticed that it looks like a LOT of people know about other Worlds.] What about you, since you're not from these parts either.

[video]

[freehugging]

[she's never heard of a place called Earth before, but then again...there are a lot of worlds out there.]

I'm from Destiny Islands. That's...the place I was trying to get back to.

[Reaction] 1/5

[justabignobody]

[Riku has heard a lot of familiar voices - some more, some less liked - in the past week, but this one...]

[Reaction] 2/5

[justabignobody]

Kairi...?

[Reaction] 3/5

[justabignobody]

[It's her, it has to be... the Kairi of his time. What do know, he wonders; no doubt she will find out that he's here sooner or later, Sora would tell her probably, and god, he wants to see her so badly... because the last time he had, she had just woken up after getting her heart back, he had been possessed by Ansem and been just strong enough to buy her enough time to get away. It has been over a year since and he can't even fool himself into saying he hasn't missed her.

But still, he is hesitant to reach out right now... to let her see him, when he is just one step off falling into the darkness again, when in the end nothing has changed between then and now, because he still isn't strong enough to protect the people he cares about the most.]

[Reaction] 4/5

[justabignobody]

[All those feelings are struggling inside him - shame and guilt and longing, because he has still just missed her so much and in the end that is the one reason for him to push away the self blame and bring up the Seal.]