Eighth Link

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[Cambot is just hanging around the theatre deck keeping an eye on Nami as she works. It's kind of a mess, and she's getting it cleaned up.

She starts to sing while she works, looking a little surprised at first, then having fun with it, twirling a little when she walks.

When the song is over and she realizes Cambot was recording, she blushes a little and ducks her head, but hums while she continues to clean, occasionally singing in a low voice.]

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[colorbymemory]

[Namine's smile is a bit sad when she sees this picture, but it soon goes up with the others.

The next day, she gently slides a picture of her holding a Kairi mask under Riku's door.]

[halfdarkened]

[Riku ponders the picture before hanging it and getting to work on a reply.]

[Again, the picture is on construction paper, but gray this time. The next picture is Namine holding a black rope which is going into a white hole. The mask is beside her. There's a small, silver-haired figure climbing the rope to safety.]

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[The picture goes up on the back of the door almost as soon as she receives it.]

[Her next picture looks simple--Namine trying to connect links in a chain with Riku's help. A closer looks at the links, though, reveals that they're scenes from Sora's memories.

So what if the help wasn't literal, it counted.]

[halfdarkened]

[Riku has devoted a wall to this. Looks like it'll be covered soon at this rate.]

[The next afternoon Riku slides in a picture with her in the foreground piecing the links together as the chain goes into a sleeping Sora's heart. Through a window, Riku can be seen in a black coat and blindfold, fighting what must be Dusks.]

[colorbymemory]

[Namine has her own "picture conversation" wall.]

[Before Riku wakes up the next morning, she slides a picture under the door. It shows Sora in silhouette, except for a heart shape at his chest. That's in color, with a picture of Riku forming one half, and a picture of Kairi the other.]

[halfdarkened]

[Finally, an alternative to that kitten poster.]

[It's evening when Riku finally responds with his picture. It's a picture of the right half of Kairi... And to the side maybe a foot away, is the left half of Namine. They're not whole alone.]

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[Nami doesn't think the kitten poster is that bad, but it's nice to have other pictures.]

[She doesn't get done with her next picture until evening of the next day. It shows small pictures of all of them--her, Kairi, Xion, him, Sora, Roxas, Ven Terra, Aqua, everyone from their world that she can think of--all interlocking like pieces of a puzzle that forms the shape of a heart.]

[halfdarkened]

[Riku's picture comes in late evening, probably after Namine has gone to bed. Riku tends to be up at ungodly hours. It's clearly a response to her last one:]

Sorry.-_-;;; Also, new pic exchange post for a new week?

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[Namine looks at the drawing for a moment, then puts it up as a reminder to be more cautious in how she puts things.]

[Her next picture shows small individual pictures of them all, with lines showing the various connections between them.]

[Enemy or friend, Nobody or Other, they're all connected.]