21st Dawn

[halfdarkened]

[Cambot has been searching around the SOL over the last day and a half for Riku, broadcasting on and off, possibly unintentionally. It seems lonely, not too uncommonly videoing the floor. Slowly it wanders into the cafeteria deck idly. It's late evening, and fairly dark. Cambot starts to turn when there's a little "pop" from inside the fridge. The bot enters, a little curious, until the door flies open, leaving light and cold to tumble out... Along with something else.]

[The short-haired figure groans and sits up, half-covered in what looks like someone's leftover Chinese food. Riku looks around, trying to figure out where he was.] Cambot? [Abruptly he checked his clothing, pulling the shoulder of his vest to get a look at the cloth on the back.] So it wasn't a dream... [And then he notes the food all over him and looks back over his shoulder. He reappeared in a familiar area.]

Again? ...Are you kidding me?!

[Cambot bounces up and down in joy!]

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[skysmirror]

[Well, that wasn't the expected response. Xion is taken aback for a moment before responding.]

Before Sora's dreams? Riku, we've known each other for almost a year here.

[Not that she doesn't have an idea as to what's behind Riku's response, but it's rather unpleasant.]

[halfdarkened]

A year...? No... You're right. We did... I almost forgot that dream... But it wasn't a dream.

I was in Sora's dreams and I met you... I didn't remember who you were. [This confuses and bothers him.]

[skysmirror]

No, it wasn't a dream.

[She's not confused, but she is bothered. Looks like meeting on the satellite doesn't guarantee she'll be remembered upon leaving.]

You were in Sora's dreams?

[halfdarkened]

[It looks like things are coming back to him, but slowly. He clearly hasn't thought about her for a long while, plus, having thought it was a dream, is looking through the haze of little snippets of clouded memory.]

Yeah. [He's slow to respond.] You were there. And Roxas, too. And there was someone else who looked just like him.

[skysmirror]

[Well, considering that at the point in time Riku had gone back to, she and Roxas were in Sora's heart, seeing them in his dreams might not be unusual. It didn't explain why Riku said he was in Sora's dreams, but that sounds like something for when they're away from Cambot.]

That's Ven--he's here, too.

[halfdarkened]

Yeah... It WAS Ven. [He seems slightly less surprised by this than when he first saw Xion again. However that brought up questions.]

But why was Ven in Sora's dreams?

[skysmirror]

I'm not sure, but, Riku. Should we be talking about this over Cambot?

[halfdarkened]

[Riku narrowed his eyes in confusion, and then he thinks about it.] I'm... Not sure. But maybe you're right. [Side effects of sudden world/dimension hopping may include confusion, disorientation, dizziness, smelling like old Chinese food and constipation. See a doctor if symptoms persist.]

...I think I'm going to go shower, now.

[skysmirror]

[If you're so out of that your friends say you're acting like a zombie, tell them you'll eat their brains first.]

...Okay. We can catch up more later.

[halfdarkened]

[Or tell them you're experiencing Roxas-symptoms.]

Sounds good.