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My name is Kairi.

If the worlds are gone, then what is this place?


What happened?


Where are Sora and Riku?

[Kairi has not realized that the book with her name on is more than it seems, so she writes down her thoughts as she wanders from the barracks, across the training yard, past the thermal pools and toward the vegetable garden. She looks in wonder and curiosity at everything around her, but she's more than a little lost. Approach?]

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[gditsideswipe]

Probably dead.

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[lightwithin]

... Hello?

Is this a talking book?

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[gditsideswipe]

No. It's an Autobot who answered your question.

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[lightwithin]

What's an auto-bot?

And my friends can't be dead. They could help.

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[gditsideswipe]

Me.

Too bad. World's gone, friends are dead.

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[lightwithin]

...

Just because my world's gone doesn't mean everyone there died.

They could be lost. Or someone could have found them already, the way someone found me.

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[gditsideswipe]

Nope. They're all dead. Sorry.

... Not really, but that's just what you say when someone loses their whole world, I guess.

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

2omeplace el2e, liike a null world or a voiid uniiver2e except not REALLY a uniiver2e.

2omeone fuckiing broke iit ii2 what happened, probably the guy holdiing u2 here.

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[lightwithin]

Null world? What's that?

I've never heard of Lord Deior. Did he really bring us here?

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

ii gue22 iit'd be liike a world that doe2n't exii2t correctly anymore.

he 2ay2 he diid, but you never know, ii've only talked two hiim over thii2 thiing.

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[lightwithin]

That's so strange. I've never heard of a place like that before.

Who are you?

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[thii2ii22tupiid]

they probably don't happen very often, our null 2e22iion was kiind of a fluke.

ii'm 2ollux.

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[lightwithin]

Okay, Sollux.

You've been to a null world before? So, there is more than one? But then how did you get here?

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[snowtop]

[Maybe not approach. Xanth is just as lost as Kairi is, if not more so - he left his room without his key, without his journal, and without a clue. The barracks were silent, torch-lit, and ultimately creepy, so Xanth made his way out of those. His next stop, coincidentally, was the stables.

Those raptors were much worse than the barracks.

So off he goes, across the green and ultimately towards the same garden as Kairi. So far nothing has attacked him, but he hasn't even seen another person.

And then when he turns a corner, there someone is! Xanth narrowly dodges to the side and throws his hands up, immediately defensive.]

S--Sorry! E-Ex-- excuse me, s-sorry!

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[lightwithin]

[Kairi, focused on the little book with her name on, doesn't even see the boy until he speaks. She looks up to see him cowering away and to find that she's walked to the edge of an orchard.]

Heh, it's okay. Maybe you can help. Do you know what world this is?

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[snowtop]

N...No?

[His surprise turns to confusion.]

D-Don't... d-don't you m--mean... p--place?

[Because they can't be in a different world.]

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[lightwithin]

Oh, heh, right!

[After accidentally revealing other worlds' existence and then having people treat it like it was old news, Kairi had almost forgotten it was supposed to be a secret.]

I know the castle's called Holloway's Keep, but I've never heard of that before. Where are we?

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[snowtop]

[Xanth looks to the side, racking his brain. A castle? Not so strange. That might mean he's not far from home.]

I-I, uh. A... Atlia? M--Maybe? P-Probably?

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[lightwithin]

Okay, Atlia.

[It didn't matter. She didn't know where Atlia was. And if she was on a different world, then why would it matter what it was called? She still didn't know where she was.

Then she realized that she was staring. She had been lost in thought and now she was staring at the letters printed across the bridge of his nose. Was that normal on this world? She was still staring. Kairi tried to think of something to say.]

'M Kairi. What's your name?

[Smooth.]

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[iwannabeadragon.livejournal.com]

Wherever they are, I'm sure your friends are safe.

[That's a rather serious answer coming from this guy Kairi. Don't you feel special?]

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[lightwithin]

Thanks.

Do you know- Are you from this place?

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[iwannabeadragon.livejournal.com]

Just renting space at the moment.

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[lightwithin]

We have to pay? I don't have any munny.

[She had always just stayed with friends before. Or in dungeons.

She doesn't really want to stay in another dungeon.]

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[iwannabeadragon.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess it's more accurate to say I'm freeloading.

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[lightwithin]

[Kairi surprises herself by giggling. Well done Hawke. Laughter makes everything better.]

So, how long have you been here?