eachdraidh | {03 Keys; video; all courts; backdated}

[When he uses the locket, it's easy enough to remember how to use it, once they are back. He wasn't sure if it might work with all the world hopping and travel earlier with the Gem, but now they seem to be back, it's worth a try. Sora's familiar spiky hair and blue eyes greet the audience, though he's lost more of that slight lingering chubbiness around his cheeks, his features more defined than they were before. As if some more time has passed for him. Which. He's getting to, after giving a wave.]

Hey everyone! I'm still not quite sure just what all happened there. Seems at least some of us decided to stay home rather than stick around here too. Or, Riku did. So he's taking care of things there while I stick around here. That and I know I remembered a lot more of what happened back home. I'm not sure if that happened to anyone else, but....I think that was possibly a good couple years I got caught up on there. Of course, I was asleep for one of them..... Who else is still around anyway? Terra? Xion? I guess I kind of lost track of a lot of people in all that. Everyone's okay, right?

[Or. He sure hopes so. It's hard to say, when some people might have wanted to stay home, or been reminded how much they might prefer the Drabwurld to home, rather than feeling more a sense of duty and curiosity like Sora. As much as he misses home himself after all this time away. He gives a shrug, rubbing at the back of his neck as he continues.]

But anyway, seems like a lot has changed around here. Gonna take a while to get used to.

[For all of them. Still. For now, it's something. A chance to adjust and possibly even change things for the better. "Your actions influence all.", that man had said.]

Still, together we can figure this out! I'm sure of it.

[So if he is a little nervous or worried, or even lost, he's not outright showing it. Not yet anyway. Instead he gives a resolute nod before ending the feed and taking stock of his surroundings once more.]

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[Simon doesn't know the boy, hasn't seen him before, either, not even on the old locket network, which means he was probably Seelie. Seems maybe a bit naive, too, but probably not so bad otherwise. Simon's long stopped expecting judgement for his being undead and having it show in his appearance anyway.

Besides, there's something Sora says that warrants a response.] You got to stay home for two years? [He looks downcast at this revelation, more so than he already is, wishing he could've stayed home for that long, too, or longer, instead of just those few hours and the false notion that he wouldn't have to leave again that he'd been given. Though the latter was his own fault.]

Should be easier to work together this time around [since the lockets don't seem to be restricted now] but people might still get caught up in their court conflicts.

[Sora himself doesn't recognize Simon either, so he makes the same assumption. That this guy is -- or rather, he was with the Unseelie. Or possibly a Seelie he just never actually caught up with given. Everything since he himself arrived.

At the question, he rubs at his cheek, trying to figure how to explain it.]

I'm not sure if it really was two years or what happened, exactly. I just know I remember about that much more than I did when I first got here. To Drabwurld about four months ago or so. I know that war was going on for a long time. It's not easy to forget all that. But...we can't know until we try! Things don't seem as tense or restricted so far anyway. We have a chance.

[Oh... He's even more intrigued now, because perhaps Sora's experience will help him answer some of his questions about others who've gone home.] Sounds almost like you had a dream before you woke up here again. Did you remembered the Drabworld when you were home during those two years, or did your memories of it only come back when you got here?

[Yes, he supposes, they have a chance, cynical though he may be. But right now knowing whether or not Kieren might remember what happened to him here now that he was home is of great importance to Simon. It would be a relief to know that, maybe it'd help to get on with other things. This was the way it was now; he was here and Kieren was home and he had best just get used to it. Even though he of all people knew that wasn't how sadness worked.]

I don't know how to explain it, exactly. I think it was kind of like when people here used to fall asleep or something?

[Like Riku. Only for him, it was just some weird happenstance and not so concerning as to have him also wake with less or more memories than before. But then, Sora isn't a stranger to having his own memories tampered with, either way.]

[The lack of answers is unfortunate, and disappointing, but like at home when he asked the undead in Roarton to tell the stories of their risings, and some of them didn't remember, he doesn't blame Sora for it.

Still, it is something, he supposes.] Since we don't always remember everything when we dream, maybe that's what happened, and now that you're back here going home just feels like a dream. So while you were there you didn't remember being here.

[Or maybe he just wants it to be like that, for Kieren's sake. He shrugs now.] It's alright that you don;t know, though. Thanks for the information. [He fiddles with the locket for a second, switching the feed to private, just in case.]

You were with the Seelie before, weren't you? [A beat.] But you'd want to try and stop the void before it makes it to the mainland, if it exists yet?

I don't know, maybe. But I'm glad if I could try help, somehow.

[The next question is a little more guarded. Has Sora a little more wary. Or, it should. Especially when he was blamed as a traitor in the battlefield when he was trying to assist those injured in the fighting to get to the gem earlier.]

I....I was. But of course, I'd want to try stop it, if it's going to be a problem again. At least this time it seems we have more time to figure something out and prepare for it.

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