Kairi (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lightwithin) wrote2010-05-10 11:17 pm
lightwithin) wrote2010-05-10 11:17 pm
5th Light - [Text/Common // open commentlog]
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.]
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.]
no subject
U-- ugh. I g-- I guess n-not.
A-Are you, uhm-- a-are you al-- alright?
no subject
[She glances over at Xanth. They both must look half-drowned. At least she doesn't feel that bad. Wait! She promised they wouldn't fall out!]
Are you?!
no subject
U-Uh, uhm, y-- yeah, I'm-- I'm alright. N-No worse th-than-- than b-before.
no subject
[Kairi frowns but looks away. She straightens her clothes and brushes away water - it looks suspiciously like fish goo - as she stands. She offers Xanth a hand.]
I guess that wasn't much fun.
no subject
W-Well, the-- the f-fish part wasn't, b-but it was...
It was n-nice before that.
no subject
[He's smiling. He must be okay. And before she's really figured out why, Kairi's smiling back. They just got spit up by a fish. It was not a fun adventure. But somehow it's okay.
Kairi lets go of Xanth's hand, her smile broadening into a grin.]
When we get back to the ship, you have to try marshmallows.
no subject
O-Okay. I'd... I'd like th-that.