Mission 17

[skysmirror]

[Cambot comes across Xion sitting at her desk. It looks like she has cat ears and a tail this week, too--all the same shade of black as her hair. The coat she's draped over the back of her chair has sparkly rainbows all over it, as do her black jeans, while her shirt has silver stars, also sparkly.

She appears not to have noticed Cambot, though, so he takes this opportunity to try to peek over her shoulder at what she's working on. It looks like she's decorating a notebook. Several partially used sheets of stickers lie next to her: rainbows, stars, hearts, various animals. The used stickers all occupy various positions on the notebook's cover, except for the one in her hand that she seems to be trying to find a place for.

As soon as she notices Cambot, her expression turns from one of focused concentration to surprise. She quickly sweeps the supplies into the only one of her desk drawers that locks.]

Cambot! I thought I asked you to let me know when you start recording.

Though, now that you're here...Has anyone seen Harry? I haven't for about a week or two.

Comments

[skysmirror]

More like a regular journal than a travel record. [She should have guessed where she got the curiosity from.]

He does, but I wonder why so many people seem to have gone home lately.

[optimistickey]

Do you like keeping one?

Me too. I wonder if it has something to do with how we're getting here in the first place...

[skysmirror]

Yeah, it's kind of nice to keep track of things this way.

[She started doing it to keep Roxas company, since he had to write one, but she genuinely enjoys it, now.]

If that machine could bring us here, then I guess it could send us back.

[optimistickey]

A lot better than forgetting them! [Oh, Sora.]

I guess so. But then how does it decide that? And when?

We need to try and find it again...

Sorry, had a moment and didn't let her respond to everything he said. ^^;;;

[skysmirror]

It is.

[Only he would say something like that and not mean it maliciously. She'll let it slide]

I'm not sure--we probably should start looking for it again.

[Not that a lot of them are experts with machines, but it would be nice to have a look and know where it is.]

[optimistickey]

You're right. Question is...what does it look like?

Maybe Mike or the Bots know.

[Sora figures they'll figure out how to work it once they actually find it.]

[skysmirror]

They might, but if they didn't know about it until Minako found out from Joel...

[The probability of them being able to identify it seems low. That said, they're the most likely to have some idea of what it could look like.]

[optimistickey]

Right now, they're probably the best lead we have on it.

[skysmirror]

True. Maybe we can ask Gypsy--she seems to know the most about what goes on here.

[optimistickey]

Good point! Probably a bit more than Tom and Crow, anyway.

[skysmirror]

[Gypsy also usually more inclined to be helpful than the other 'bots, but Xion's not going to mention that here.]

Probably.

[optimistickey]

All right, we'll ask her next chance we get!

[skysmirror]

Yeah, is there anything else need to ask?

[optimistickey]

Probably how to work it, too!

[skysmirror]

That would be good to know, too.

[She smiles, but it doesn't quite reach her eyes. Much as she'd like to go home in some ways, she knows that once she goes back, she probably doesn't have much time left.]