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[Oh, hey. Looks like somebody's figured out how to work the watch because there's a shot of this silver-haired teen. He grins at the camera, before leaning back against the edge of one of the buildings.]

So, I'm looking for a dork with spiky hair and ridiculous, yellow shoes. Kind of dense, goes by Sora. Chances here, he's lost. Sora never was the best with directions. And in a place like this, he could use all the help he could get.

So if any of you have seen him, do me a favor and point me in the right direction. Somebody's gotta keep an eye on him, after all.

Oh yeah, and anyone got any suggestions on places to scope out? This city's huge, and I've barely scratched the surface so far.

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Only I'm not a kid.

And I've been planning to visit other worlds for years. This place is as good a place to start as any.

Only a kid would say that.

Ah, but if you think about it? You didn't have a choice in coming here, that's hardly breaking new grounds on your own if you think about it.

Edited (i fail at words) 2013-01-19 19:08 (UTC)

You're saying that like I hadn't found my way off the islands before coming here... and I did. All I had to do was open the door.

And even if I didn't choose to come here, I can't really complain. It sure beats the last world I was in.

What door? [He'll let you explain what you meant by that. As his apprentice, he owes you the benefit of the doubt.

But that doesn't stop the slightly ominous feeling he got by that phrase he got, or the feeling of familiarity.]

It was this weird door in a cave back home. Had this Keyhole on the front, but no knob or handle.

I thought, before we set sail, I should at least try and open it. To see what's inside. Turns out that's all I needed to get to the outside world.

[... Locking this. He's... ... angry. And horrified. And saddened, and feeling guilty because there's no way Riku knew what he did and what he was about to reveal was only going to hurt. So he has to try and be patient, and not use a Light Corridor to Riku's location, smack him on the back of the head, and lecture him the way Master would have done with himself.] You should not have done that. That door wasn't your 'ticket' off your world. It protected something very important.

[All Keyholes do.]

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[...What?

Give him a second here. Terra's words definitely throw him through a loop. Was what he did really... wrong?]

Protected something important? Like what?

[... take him a second to just... figure out his wording.] Every star in the night sky is another world; the light we see is the heart of that world, shining down like millions of lanterns. The door you saw? That was the Keyhole. Behind the Keyhole lies the Heart of a world, sealed to protect it from the still chaotic darkness that lies beyond the barriers that keep the worlds separated.

[There... were reasons why the worlds had remained separated. None of which he'd liked, but he'd understood them.

Trying to make this younger Riku understand was... going to be painful.

There was a storm. The Heartless showed up and started wrecking the place.

[...And that was his fault? Had he really left his world exposed like that?]

I didn't stop to think about it. I just wanted to get off of that island, no matter the cost.

[...Man, did he really screw up?]

[... ... reason for bad feeling confirmed. Riku...

Try to... try to soften the blow. Don't be angry. Don't even try to get across anger or disappointment. Don't let the guilt at not being there to tell him otherwise seep in.] You couldn't have known; there weren't any Masters left that knew about you or that small, bright world you were from. None left that could have taught you that unlocking a Keyhole would lead to disaster for the newly-exposed world.

[Once that text is finished, he can't deny the flicker of sadness he's feeling anymore. Riku... forgot. The kid that had been wise beyond his years, and reminded him of why he had wanted so desperately to be a Master... had forgotten why he wanted to leave. Why he sought strength.

'Was it worth the cost, Riku?' Because... you'll have to live with it now.]

I just wanted to get away. All those years stuck in the same old routine... I just wanted something new.

I didn't think there'd be a catch.

[But then, it's never that easy, is it?

And now Terra probably thinks he's some kind of idiot.]

There's always a catch, Riku.

[He doesn't think you're an idiot-- you're just. Fifteen. And untrained at all. Everyone is stupid at fifteen. Stupid and impulsive.]

What am I supposed to do now?

[Because, really, he's drawing a blank here. Even now, he's having trouble believing he screwed up so badly.]

[Oh shit, oh shit, damage control!

He's even using voice and is sounding... kind of quiet and cringe-ish.]

...I didn't know what it what it would do at the time. I didn't find out the consequences of it until a long while later. Until after things were restored again.

... I thought as much. [His tone is... quiet. Serious.] There wasn't anyone around to teach you what it would do; what doors like that are protecting.

... I'm sorry. [Because he should've been there, and... you know why he wasn't there. And it could've gone different, if he hadn't been so stupid and given Xehanort just the opening he was looking for.]

...I could tell it was important.

[He had been the only one, who'd been able to see the Keyhole after all.

He shakes his head.]

It's not your fault.

[If anyone, it's Xehanort's. ...And Riku's. Destiny Island has been restored, nobody but himself, Sora and Kairi actually remembered the event... but that doesn't change the fact that he had killed the whole world's population -including friends, class mates, his parents... basically almost everyone he'd known his whole life - without a second thought for curiosity's sake. That's a fact he'll always have to live with.]

I know you wouldn't have opened it, if you knew what would happen.

[And he'd been the one to pass the power to see the Keyhole. All Keybearers could see them, being the ones that held the 'key' to those locks.

A 'hm' sound, before he replies again, sounding... well. Definitely a little sad and/or guilty.] Maybe not, but... no one ever said feelings were logical.

I-

[Wouldn't he? At the time he had been so obsessed with finding a way off the islands... would he have left the Keyhole alone at the knowledge of just what consequences prying it open would have?

He doesn't know anymore. He'd like to think so. He hopes he would have.

He knows he would never even consider it now.

That... just has to be enough. Somehow.

There is no way to go back and see how things would have gone otherwise anyways.]

...True enough.

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