Video | A day late and a dollar short (Lockets + Compassnet)

[needmetoo]

[She's still disoriented. Disoriented and tired and feeling like a well-wrung sponge. She probably looks the part too, face having the ruddy, blotchy look of someone who's gone through a lot of upheaval in a very short space of time.

She barely understands what's going on, beyond the barest jist of things. For her, it was only a few hours at most since she was in the heart of the great gem before she was flung into this world, owing to ending up on a place in her world that was... temporally flexible... for those two while the gem did its work. And once she's taken some time to just sleep and gather herself... she can get started.

She still has Feathers. And Pathfinder. And even her locket. Which is as good a place as any to start.]

H-hey. I don't... really recognize where I am. He... that man said we were in the past I think?

[But this area honestly doesn't even look like part of the future world either. An entirely new location. She could try her corridors sure, but those only worked to places she's been before, and it seems risky if she isn't even sure whether those places exist in the past.

All of these time thoughts are giving her a headache. She reaches a hand up to rub her forehead. Behind her, a chocobo briefly butts into view to nudge the side of her head. She reaches the same free hand back to pat its beak absently.]

I'm sorry. [This must look so dumb.] I'm still really confused. But... we're all here, right?

[They're not all strangers again, starting from scratch?]

Locked to Compassnet

[With a more general address out of the way she goes for something a bit more targeted. He'd said the Seelie and Unseelie didn't exist yet, but after a few months of being wary of the lockets, she's still careful.

She pulls up Pathfinder's charm, the wayfinder that Riku had given her, and speaks slowly.]

Terra? Riku? Elizabeth? Sora? Merida? Um... I'm not sure who else is here.

[Who else of the people she cares about has access to the separate network. There's a nervous, almost pleading edge to her voice. Well if they were still here or not... this would make it obvious either way.]

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[keybearing]

Something like that; the past. I guess this means we have a chance to change things. Maybe it won't get to that point before, with the void and the Seelie and Unseelie.

[Yes, that is important. But not the most pressing right now. Because he's been hoping to confirm on if Xion is still here, and if so, just where. He knows on Terra at least, but she's been an unknown for a bit. He can't help the smile as he shakes his head a little.]

But it's good to hear from you, Xion. I was a little worried. I guess a lot of us lost track of each other before. You okay? I know Terra's here, he mentioned the idea of staying at Leathann. Riku though.....with all that traveling between worlds? He stayed back home. I wanted to but....I figured one of us should stick around here to help out.

[He doesn't want to upset her about Riku, but it's better to tell her. It's not something he could keep from her for long even if he tried or wanted to.]

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[needmetoo]

[She'd already heard from Elizabeth that Riku might be gone, and here was Sora to confirm it. It's a chaotic mix of feelings - were emotions really always this overwhelming once you acknowledged them?

She's glad to see him though. Even if she's still confused.]

Travelling between worlds?

[The downside of landing in part of your own set of worlds that you've never seen before]

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[keybearing]

Yeah. With the Gem just before. I went home, to Halloween Town, Christmas Town. And to Hogwarts! Hermione's school where they learn magic. It was pretty awesome!

[Just. Trying to focus on the positives, the exciting parts. Rather than that farewell. Of which is seems Riku's was hardly the only one in all of this.]

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[needmetoo]

[Xion can only blink, baffled and maybe a little uneasy.]

I didn't see anything like that. This... this was after we wished in the gem, right?

[She's trying to orient herself, figure out how this all happened and how she... managed to miss all of it.]

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[keybearing]

After that, yeah. I kind of lost track of you and Terra then. But at least we're here now. We'll figure it out, don't worry. I'm not sure what happened to you and most others during all that.

[Sora's bad habit of brushing off things that might be worrying in favor of trying to be reassuring and optimistic. He himself is a little confused, and perhaps a bit worried himself, but he's trying to not let Xion dwell on that too much. To focus on what's ahead of them.]