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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

[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.]

[ttlyisabard.livejournal.com]

Safe enough ... only hunger really got to me. Wish I could say the rest about everyone though.

[Kate sighs pensively. Fear remained, omnipotent and lingering just on the horizon.]

[lightwithin]

I know what you mean. So many people were hurt and... I didn't even know.

[Guilt guilt guilt.]

[ttlyisabard.livejournal.com]

This ship is a scary place ... I hope we land soon.