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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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[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.