Third Breeze

[salvagedlight]

[The communicator is turned on to find a bright yellow puffball right in its viewpoint; it seems Linka managed to land on the wrist communicator and turn it on. The surprise is probably that this hasn't happened before. There's a voice coming over the comm unit as Linka stays right where she is, blocking all real view.]

-not too big, kupo, but hopefully you're not gonna need a lot of space for this!

Yeah, hopefully not. But it'll be good to have as much space as I can get-

[-With that, Linka squeaks and takes off, clearing the view to a distorted shot of the Fourth District for a brief moment before Ven automatically reaches up to grab her and stop her from smashing into the overhang above their heads.]

-and not a lot of stuff on the walls.

You'll have that here! Now, you've got your first rent payment, right?

Sure - here you go. [A rustling of cloth, a clink of munny away from the camera; the arm with the comm on it is still holding the wriggling bat.] That's everything, right?

Don't forget your key!

What? Oh, oh yeah. [Not that he needs one, but he takes it anyway - he can give it to Luna if needs be.] Thanks! So what do you think, guys? [Now that his focus isn't on the moogle, Ven lifts Linka to perch on his pauldron, finally giving a fairly clear view of one of the empty storefronts in the Fourth District, with a rather unassuming door and no sign above it or in the single window. Wheeler's pressed up against his leg, the top of his head just in view of the camera; at the question, he and Linka both squeak enthusiastically.] I think this'll make a pretty good clinic for you and your friends.

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[salvagedlight]

And there's a lot of worlds out there. I know I didn't get to nearly all of them.

[dork_of_keys]

I've been to a lot of world since I first left my home world and I know I haven't seen all of them.

[salvagedlight]

Which ones have you been to?

[dork_of_keys]

Let's see. There's here, Wonderland, Olympus, Deep Jungle, Agrabah, Atlantica, Halloween Town... the inside of a whale... Never Land, Radiant Garden...

[Yes, he's going over them in the order he's pretty sure he visited them in originally.]

There was the weird castle that I don't remember much of, Twilight Town, Land of Dragons, the Beast's Castle... well, he's a prince, but he was cursed. That curse might be broken by now. Oh, there's King Mickey's world, Port Royal, The Pride Lands, the world inside of a computer.

[He pauses a moment, as if he's kind of debating something. He shakes his head before going on.]

There's a couple worlds I've only seen in the realm of dreams. The City of Bells was one, the home world of that whale... [He makes a face at that, but doesn't elaborate.] There's also the Country of the Musketeers and a musical world that I think is connected to Master Yen Sid's world somehow.

[At least he didn't say that all in one breath. He's left one out, but it's likely he'll end up talking about it another time...]

[salvagedlight]

[Whelp, Ven's going to be focusing on the ones he knows in that list; his face breaks into a smile, a really happy smile at some of those names.] You've been to the Coliseum, Disney Town, Neverland, and Radiant Garden? I did too! How's everyone doing there, did you meet Herc, and Peter, and what about Lea and Isa? And Queen Minnie and the ducklings and Phil and everyone?

1/2

[dork_of_keys]

[Sora's not exactly surprised to learn that they have visited some of the same worlds.] Yeah. Huh, well, Herc's a genuine hero and a pretty busy one too. Phil's... Phil. I'm still not sure if his miscounting words is intentional or not. Let's see... Peter's still driving Hook nuts, not that Hook isn't asking for it half the time. Queen Minnie's fine. And everyone in their world.

[Of course, not everything was good news here...]

2/3 I lied.

[dork_of_keys]

[Sora's demeanor changes in a hurry when he starts thinking about Radiant Garden. He wishes he could say that everyone was fine there, but he can't.]

Radiant Garden was, over run by darkness some time after you were there. The people are rebuilding now, but it was empty the first time I went there. Nothing but Heartless...

Lea's okay know, but Isa...

3/3 done and this one is filtered to Ven.

[dork_of_keys]

Isa's ended up as one of Xehanort's vessels. I know Lea means to try to bring him back. He even went to Master Yen Sid to learn how to wield a Keyblade. I'm kind of amazed he actually got one, too, to be honest.

Re: 3/3 done and this one is filtered to Ven.

[salvagedlight]

[He doesn't quite catch the end of that because everything started falling apart when he heard what happened to Radiant Garden. It- what? And his friends what?]

Isa's a vessel? And what happened to Lea? [He did catch that "now," Sora.]

Still filtered

[dork_of_keys]

Yeah. I don't know much beyond that. Someone else told me about it.

[Oh boy. Sora had almost forgotten that he really hadn't dropped many names, of people or of worlds, when they'd talked on top of the gizmo shop. Looks like he has a little elaborating to do. At least he had already explained Nobodies.]

Do you remember what I told you about Nobodies? Lea and Isa and a few others from their world ended up being Nobodies for... well, for a long time. They've gotten their hearts back by my time, but... Isa...

Re: Still filtered

[salvagedlight]

[You know what, he can't respond to that. His friends... lost their hearts? They'd been Nobodies? They tried to destroy the worlds? This didn't... it was just wrong... wasn't it?]

Isa... Isa what, Sora?

Still filtered

[dork_of_keys]

He's one of Xehanort's vessels.

[Sora wishes this bad news didn't even exist, to be honest. It hurts to have to tell someone that something bad happened to a friend of theirs. For all that he's still very unhappy about it, though, he refrains from telling Ven about some of Saix's meaner actions. He doesn't need to know.]

I know Lea plans to try to bring him back. I don't know how that's going to go, but there is a chance.

[A very slim chance...