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[lightwithin]

It's just like home.

I didn't think I'd miss it like this. If you spend ten years building sandcastles and cracking coconuts, it gets kind of boring.

Now I'm here, and it's fun. But still exactly the same.

I don't want to stay. I know some of you do, but nothing ever changes in a place like this. And it's not home, not without the people who make home special.

I guess this place has reminded me that even if I could go back, there's only sandcastles and coconuts waiting there for me.

And if the Elegante is the only way forward then, no matter how bad it gets, I'll take it.

[Kairi is at the cove, ankle-deep in the surf. She's watching something bob out over the waves as she writes. When it disappears, she turns away and begins walking along the beach. She picks up and pockets seashells as she goes.]

Comments

[brittlenerves.livejournal.com]

Th-that was... n-nice, Kairi.

[lightwithin]

Heh, thanks. I didn't mean for it to sound like at letter.

[Though reading it over now, she realizes that it does.]

I just felt like writing for a change.

[brittlenerves.livejournal.com]

Y-You-- you... d-did it w-- well.



Wh-- uhm. D-Do you, uhm, m-mind if I... um, c-come say hi?

[lightwithin]

Sure. I'm at the cove.

[And she laughs. Because has she been anywhere else - when not eating or sleeping - this whole time? No.]

[brittlenerves.livejournal.com]

O-Okay, I'll-- b-be there in-- i-in a bit.



H-Hey!

[lightwithin]

[Kairi waves back, half-bent as she picks up another shell. But she straightens when she notices the bruise.]

Hey! What happened to you?

[She says it with a smile. After all, he looks okay.]

Picking fights again?

[brittlenerves.livejournal.com]

H-Haha, n-no, uh, I just-- I-I, uh, f-fell out of bed a-and hit myself o-on, uhm, the-- the s-side table. S-Stupid, right?

[lightwithin]

[Kairi giggles.]

Does that always happen when you've been at sea for a while? I couldn't sleep the first night we were here because we weren't - you know - moving.

[And she mocks the swaying of a ship.]

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Borin' or not, back home we actually had freedom.

[And he had his family.]

[lightwithin]

Your world must be bigger than mine. I don't feel like a prisoner here any more than I did at home.

I know the Captain's magic is what's keeping us here. But even if he was gone, we still couldn't leave. Heh, not unless you know how to open portals between worlds.

Anyway, you still have some freedom.

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Ain't evah gonna know dat fuh sure till some mon actually gets rid of him.

I be held in a place dat I don't wanna be 'gainst my will wid no way to leave. Dat don't sound like freedom to me. It be soundin' like a prison.

Just because joo be shuttin' joor eyes to it don't mean it ain't be true.

[lightwithin]

I'm not shutting my eyes! I know the Captain isn't a good man. He's mad and he should be stopped.

But I know that this - all of this - isn't my world. I know that to travel to a different world, I need magic or a rocket ship. Getting rid of the Captain won't give me those things. I'd still be in a place I didn't want to be with no way to leave.

I hope someone finds another way to travel between worlds. But until they do, I'll make the most out of what's here.

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Maybe it wouldn't send us back, but if he be gone den at least I wouldn't be toy to a fuckin' mad mon. Don't know 'bout joo but dat be soundin' like a step in da right direction to me.

[lightwithin]

Captain Redd's not the only madman on board. But I guess you could probably fight the rest of them.

[pimp-hat.livejournal.com]

Right now he be da only madmon dat be pissin' me off. Don't care much 'bout da uddahs.

[ttlyisabard.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That's a very optimistic way to look at it ... I think I had forgotten that. Optimism I mean ...

So ... I take it you're from an island back home? What ... are your friends like?

[lightwithin]

It's been easy to forget, after the month we've had.

Heh, well my friends aren't made of stone like the locals here. They're a lot like some people on board sometimes. They wanted to escape and find adventure and to see other worlds. And well, they did.

[ttlyisabard.livejournal.com]

The water's always bluer ... right?

[lightwithin]

Wha- Oh! Heh, yeah. Right.

I don't think they wanted something better. Well, heh, maybe something more. Our world was pretty small.

But I came from somewhere else to start with, and it started them thinking about other worlds why we end up where we do.

[Her voice goes quieter, as though she's looking away from the communicator]

I don't think anyone looking for those kinds of answers would find them here though.

[ttlyisabard.livejournal.com]

I never thought the planes worked like this. There's so many more worlds out there than we knew of on mine ...

Really makes you appreciate home a bit more ...

[lightwithin]

As many as there are stars in the sky.

Heh. I guess you're right. It really does.

Um... Have we spoken before?

[She doesn't think they have, but it's hard to tell over the communicator sometimes.]

I'm Kairi.

[ttlyisabard.livejournal.com]

I'm Kate. I don't think we have ... I've been quiet the last month or so ...

[lightwithin]

Heh. Then it's nice to meet you. And well, at least that means you've been safe?

[It comes out as a question. Being quiet could also mean Kate was afraid or hurt.]

[missmimmi]

I suppose I really must agree with you.

[lightwithin]

Well you don't have to. I was just thinking.

[Kairi isn't sure she's understood Mimmi right there.]