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[seasidememories]

So...I can talk to other people this way, right?

[The video feed shakes up and down as Cambot nods.]

Really? Great!

...Wait, there are other people around, aren't there? Because crash landing in a space station ghost town wouldn't surprise me one bit.

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Riku has a special little Cambot

[halfdarkened]

[There's a little static on the other end. Clearly someone's holding Cambot.] No, not now! C'mon! [The static clears and Cambot is released. Riku - a 16-year-old Riku - blinks at the camera before a rare warm smile appears now that he can see her clearly.] ...Thought so. [There's still some static.]

Nice to see you, Kairi.

[seasidememories]

Huh?

[She squints until the static--well, most of it--relents.]

...Riku.

How--no. No, you were trapped. I saw it. I just saw Sora shutting those doors. I thought we'd never s... I thought you were gone!

[And she's too relieved to have noticed the seemingly inexplicable growth spurt. Yet.]

[halfdarkened]

What doors? The last... [The image fizzles again until there's a loud CLONK!] Do you never not have a bad day, Cambot? [The image is clear now as Riku's hand appears from behind the little bot. It pans left and right. That would be a no.] The last door I went through was the Door to... [He stops a moment, now getting a good look at her.] ...Oh. That door.

A lot's happened probably. What were you doing last?

[seasidememories]

I was watching the two of you get whisked away. For good, I thought.

I guess I thought wrong.

...You're a giant, Riku. Look at you. You're taller than Wakka now.

[halfdarkened]

Yeah. A lot's happened. And--

[He blinks and smirks a little.] Man, haven't seen Wakka in... [When DID he see Wakka last? Is it years now?] Yeah. [He tries to figure out ow to say this.] Kairi. Over a year's passed since Sora and I closed the Door to Darkness.

[seasidememories]

...Oh.

[A small pause on her end.]

And how much of that did you spend trapped there?

[halfdarkened]

...I actually don't know. I'd started drifting between light and darkness. I woke up there. Anse-- ...A man named DiZ got me out.

[seasidememories]

DiZ, huh... If he's here, I'd better thank him.

[halfdarkened]

He's not, I'd know.

[He just kind of looks at her a moment, looking a little like nostalgia is catching up with him a bit.]

I guess for now you should make yourself comfortable. Sora and I have been here for a couple months now. We both live on deck 2. There are more rooms there if you want.

[seasidememories]

You're not off the hook that easy!

First I'm gonna meet up with a boy named Roxas--please don't tell me you've got a secret twin, too, Riku--but after that, I'm going to find you and Sora. And you two are not leaving my sight, ever again.

And I'm not letting you open any more doors unsupervised.

[halfdarkened]

[Riku blinks.]

[He smiles and shakes his head. Same old Kairi.] Okay, I wont. [The story about the Replica can come later.] And I never said I didn't want to meet up.

[A soft chuckle is barely audible.] Too late.