Early Evening

[keyblading]

hey, i'm sora! so i'm not sure which sleeping world this is, but i'm kind of looking for someone. there's no dream eaters here either, so it's a little weird to figure out where to go. plus, what's with these notebooks?

though, i guess other people would know, but i really have something important to do, so i'd like to get going!

plus, what is this place, i've never seen a world like this? what's going on?

[ For SOME reason, Sora is still writing questions, not particularly waiting for an answer. Some of them range from "how did I manage to get here? and "where's riku?" and then something about being really hungry. Feel free to stop him. ]

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[wheretheresawill]

That could be a lot of people. What does he look like?

I should warn you, sometimes your friends aren't here even if it seems like they should be.

[keyblading]

he's got silver hair and he's really tall. plus he's a keyblade master!

[wheretheresawill]

That doesn't sound like -----


a Keyblade master? What's his name?

[keyblading]

riku! he just got his master title. you know i'm really proud of him, he worked really hard, plus, it's really cool to see my friend get some confidence---

wait, do you know about keyblades?!

[wheretheresawill]

RIKU??

I I know a Riku. Knew. Back home. But he was just a kid, this doesn't make sense

How do you know about Keyblades?

[keyblading]

because i'm sora! i have a keyblade!

[wheretheresawill]

Okay, Sora, but how do you have a Keyblade? It was just us and -

Who gave it to you?

[keyblading]

i dunno. it just came to me.

[wheretheresawill]

But that's
that's not how the Keyblade works!

Someone has to have passed the power to you!

[keyblading]

oh yeah...i don't think that happened to me. see, the keyblade came to me when riku's heart succumbed to darkness. he came back though!

[wheretheresawill]

Riku's heart...succumbed to darkness...

I'm sorry. He seemed like...he was a good kid.

[keyblading]

he is a good kid! everyone has moments where they bend to the darkness in their hearts. it's not something that makes you good or bad. it just makes you who you are.

[wheretheresawill]

I mean

it kind of does make you good or bad?

Bad people are bad because they let the darkness in them take over.

[keyblading]

i don't agree...not completely anyway. darkness....well, i don't know, it's hard to explain. but i've seen what happened to riku and he used his darkness to overcome it. he knew who he was....it's who you are that makes you, you!

[wheretheresawill]

You make it sound a lot simpler than it is. Or maybe more complicated. I don't know.

Hey, can I ask you something? Can you summon your Keyblade okay here?

[keyblading]

i haven't really tried just yet. been trying to figure out what's going on, but it's becoming really obvious that isn't not a good situation....

[wheretheresawill]

Well, be careful with it. I've been

having trouble. Also sometimes there are these dogs? Maybe it's just me though.

[keyblading]

i just summoned it with no problem! but dogs?! did you get to keep one?!

[wheretheresawill]

They all ran off.

It's good that you're not having trouble, though. We could use a reliable Keyblade.

[keyblading]

man...having a dog would be awesome.

reliable? i'm sure yours is perfectly reliable!

[wheretheresawill]

Maybe you could find one. A lot of people here have pets, or animal friends.

I'm not so sure. Not since I came here, anyway...

[keyblading]

maybe we just need to practice together! that'll get your spirits up!

[wheretheresawill]

Maybe. You think you can find the gardens? They have a lot of empty space.

[keyblading]

that'd be great! and yeah, i think i can find it!

[wheretheresawill]

I'll meet you there.

-----

Terra loiters at the entrance to the gardens, fretting. He's not at all sure he'll be able to summon his Keyblade, and while that's been bad enough, to fail in front of another Keyblade wielder is...making it real, somehow, in a way that failing on his own hasn't. Especially if this Sora (and where did he come from, anyway?) isn't having trouble.