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Time to grow [closed]
Characters: Shion and Riku
Setting: Floor 29, meadow beyond the hedge maze
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Summary: Shion is ready, he goes to meet Riku for his first lesson on trying to control darkness.
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A lot had happened since Elena's disappearance and Riku's offer, Xion had been caught up in the experiment mainly. And Shion had been concentrating on helping her. Then this last week... had been one of bad memories but he was trying to move on.
And in doing so had remembered the offer Riku had given him, a promise to help him try and sort out the darkness that only seemed to grow inside of him, the anger and rage that threatened to boil over every time someone close to him got hurt.
Which happened all too often in this place.
So he made his way to the twenty ninth floor. This was another reason he had been avoiding this. Maze's were not good. They brought back only painful memories, of the labyrinth and of Dark World.
So he wasn't in the greatest state when he finally found his way out into the meadow beyond.
Setting: Floor 29, meadow beyond the hedge maze
Format: Either
Summary: Shion is ready, he goes to meet Riku for his first lesson on trying to control darkness.
Warnings:
A lot had happened since Elena's disappearance and Riku's offer, Xion had been caught up in the experiment mainly. And Shion had been concentrating on helping her. Then this last week... had been one of bad memories but he was trying to move on.
And in doing so had remembered the offer Riku had given him, a promise to help him try and sort out the darkness that only seemed to grow inside of him, the anger and rage that threatened to boil over every time someone close to him got hurt.
Which happened all too often in this place.
So he made his way to the twenty ninth floor. This was another reason he had been avoiding this. Maze's were not good. They brought back only painful memories, of the labyrinth and of Dark World.
So he wasn't in the greatest state when he finally found his way out into the meadow beyond.
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[Riku had said as much as possible, but if Shion tried to explain the background he would be here all week he knew so he focused on the meeting.] He knew Nezumi, sort of. Nezumi was an actor and he went by the stage name Eve. Rikiga claimed to be his fan, we explained to him why he was there. He had known my mother and was fond of her.
He took us up to a hidden room, where he had a lot of luxurious items, things like alcohol and such that were hard to get hold of in the West Town, which was where we were.
Nezumi was... well he wasn't very polite. To anyone but he made some comments about it being obvious that my mum had rejected Rikiga. They had met when my mum was writing a column about No. 6. Rikiga had began investigating and became despairing by what he had learned.
He got annoyed by Nezumi's attitude. Nezumi told him not to take things such seriously. He then told him that he knew that Rikiga had been... [He paused and looked down, blushing slightly] He had been finding women to give to corrupt officials of No. 6. That was how he could have such luxury. I know now that Nezumi was threatening him, letting him know what he knew. [He took a deep breath, even the memory of it made him angry.]
Rikiga suggested that Nezumi sollicit. That he would earn more money than from acting... that he had probably done it before. [Shion shook his head] I threw a mug at him, my hands were round his neck before I realised, I would have killed him if Nezumi hadn't pulled me away...
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Still, it's too early to pin point anything yet.]
...You said, you also got angry as a child. Can you describe those situations for me?
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Or I would just scream at nothing, it had to be secret though, I wasn't supposed to feel any dissatisfaction with my city.
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That city you lived in... was it really 'perfect'?
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Fair enough.
[Riku at least doesn't subscribe to perfection, never really has. And when there's something like a city claiming as much for itself and people are being pushed to believe it... well then he can't help but feel wary of it.]
Were there any consequences for doubting it?
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Were there people you knew that disappeared?
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I was trying to rescue her... when... [He made a gesture at the air around him]
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I'm sorry.
[For asking, for making Shion remember, for the friend he lost no matter how long ago.]
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I just wish I knew. [He looked down] If in another world we saved her...
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If this place proves anything, then it's that there's a whole lot of universes out there, where someone made a different choice and everything changed according to it. I'm certain... somewhere there is a place and a time where you managed to safe your friend.
[After all... there is a world where he never lost himself to the point that Kingdom Key abandoned him. If there's that, then anything is possible.]
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