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[justabignobody]

Characters: Riku (justabignobody) and Naminé (lethechained), then O P E N
Setting: 5th September, Daytime, all around the Tower
Format: Action to start with, but I'll match!
Summary: After spending a month back home (and finding out that it is really all destroyed) Riku returns to the Tower. Clearly, the first thing on order is to check up on everyone!
Warnings: Non as of now.

[A - Dormitory Hallways - Closed to Naminé]

[It's... hard to say just how much time has passed since he woke from the dreams into a living nightmare, since he had realized that this wasn't another trick, another dream, but reality. How much time he's spent wandering, wondering, thinking.

Sometimes along the road, he had decided not to give up, not to give into the despair - no matter how tempting it might seem.

And the moment he reawakens and knows, feels that something has changed, he also knows that that was the right decision to make.

Finally, he steps out of his room, still slightly disoriented, but determined to find somebody.

(He has missed them. He has missed them so much and the ache in his heart is even worse than it had been in those ten months before he had arrived in the tower)]


[B - All around the Tower - Open to all!]

[Things are clearer now not just because his hair and bangs are maybe just a little bit shorter). A whole month has passed since he had been forced to sleep. A lot has happened since, a lot he has missed. But even though Naminé has reassured him that everyone is fine, that non of their friends is gone or hurt (too badly at least), he needs to make sure himself.

So, for once Riku is the one, who systematically wanders the floors in search of familiar faces (and possibly running into some not so familiar ones). And for once, the relief of being back, of being back with people is showing more and more, with every passing hour.]



[ooc: a.) Please indicate the number of the Floor you want to run into Riku, either in the subject line or the tag itself!

b.) I'll probably still be using some blindfold icons, but as of now Riku is not wearing it anymore.

c.) Also, if you haven't please take a moment for his permissions post!]

Comments

[the_white_rider]

[ Gandalf looks up when he hears the voice - Riku? And without his blindfold like last time, it's a good surprise. He nods and puts a book aside. Yes he's looking, unfortunately the truly mattering book are probably secured away. Or burnt for all they know. ]

I am always looking for something particular.

[ He smiles. ]

But it is rare when I find it.

[justabignobody]

[Burnt, huh... that's really a pity. Riku should probably check on the spellbooks later on. He returns that smile though, hands digging into the pockets of his cloak.]

Maybe you are looking to hard.

[Because well... the harder you look, the harder it is to find something, isn't it?

A pause.]

...Is this a bad time? There is something I'd like to talk about with you.

[the_white_rider]

Maybe you are right. I have the feeling the answers are close, yet they escape me whenever I am about to grasp them.

[ He raises an eyebrow and smile, shaking his head. ]

It is never a bad time Riku. What is it you need to talk about?

[justabignobody]

I'm sure you'll find them sooner or later.

[It's probably just a question of time, right?]

The theory you mentioned that time... about the people from our homeworlds having been turned into Phantoms. I've done some thinking on that.

[the_white_rider]

Oh.

[ That theory. He looks slightly worried-- After all the last person having done some thinking on it was Enoch, and he sort of gave himself over to be eaten by one of the monsters. ]

And what conclusions did you reach?

[justabignobody]

[Ah well... Riku is definitely not planning on letting himself be eaten, or despairing in general.]

I think you are right. Back home... something kind of similar happened. Over the last decade a lot of darkness was leaked into the worlds... it- they consumed them and many beings living on them. But when we closed the Door to the Darkness, everything was restored to how it was before.

[Apart of some worlds that ended up falling asleep, but Riku doesn't know about that, so...]

I know, it's not quite the same as here, but... [It's something to hope for...]

[the_white_rider]

[ Gandalf listened attentively to Riku's story. ]

A familiar situation. Worlds, so many of them, so different yet obviously all with something in common if the same evil can affect them... I do entertain the belief everything will return to normal once the mysteries of this tower solved and fixed.

However, even if it is to happen, I am afraid we personally will not be the same as we were before.

[ A pause. riku's story has many details and he cannot ask for all of them, but one in particular he needs to know. ]

May I ask, what happened to those consumed by darkness?

[justabignobody]

[Riku nods after a moment, lips pressing together for a moment.]

...I guess that's to be expected.

[Places like the tower... experiences like the once that were made in a place like this... there was no way they wouldn't leave signs... scars. Nothing ever comes without some kind of consequence.

Riku has no problems going into details as much as Gandalf wants, not if it helps them all, and that particular question isn't particularly surprising.]

They... were turned into the same thing that attacked them. They became Heartless.