RIKU → first dawn || video

[resipiscent]

[There's a long-haired boy on the video, glancing around as he walks. He's checking out the city streets, but his brightly-coloured eyes keep flicking up to the sky -- it's been a while since he's seen a real one.]

Uh, can someone tell me where this is?

[One hand comes up to rub at a black collar on a scarred throat -- the hand is made of some kind of silvery metal, and the scar on his throat is horizontal, like it was slit.]

Not F3 or something stupid like that?

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[charmedbymemories]

[Oh Light. She'd been hoping he wouldn't wonder this early on about Sora, but this is Facility's Riku. Her and Kairi's Riku. Of course he would ask about Sora-- more than any other Riku she's known in her time in Hinoto-Ri. She bites her lip, mind racing with half-starts of consolation and explanations. None would ever be appropriate or good enough of an answer for him.]

He-- he was here, not too long ago.

[resipiscent]

... Was he?

[The sensation that washes over his heart is cold. He hadn't realized... that something like this was possible. Sometimes, though... the world has other plans, it seems. He wonders idly whether he did something to inflict karma on himself.]

... how was he?

[charmedbymemories]

You know him. His usual self. He missed you so much though. He tried to get along with the other Rikus here but I think it was too strange for him without you.

[resipiscent]

It would have been. It's strange for me, even just not having him around. Was there more than one me?

[charmedbymemories]

Yes. There was a younger you, right after you left Destiny Island, and an older you, one that knew Master Aqua.

[She looks down at her hands.]

I'm sorry, Riku.