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3rd Day [Text]

[He's been thinking about this a lot. Since he got over the shock of the mansion showing up, and since people started returning from it unscathed. He's not sure if that's a good thing or not, since he doesn't know if he'll go through the same thing.

But at some point he needs to know. Deep down, he knows he can't keep running. At least this time, it's his choice, and he's not being forced into anything.

He's off by himself, keeping things to text in an effort to stay anonymous, though who knows how effective that will be.]

How do you deal with something that's bothering you?

[That should be vague enough.]

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The first step, I think, is to be certain you know why it is bothering you.

[Why it's bothering him? Because he was scared? Because he didn't know what would happen if he went near the mansion?]

All I know is that it is. And I can't shake the feeling.

If you don't immediately know, that complicates matters. Can you identify the basic emotion, then? Fear, or anger?

Fear. It's fear.

Is it based on something you are certain of, something you believe will happen, or reasons you do not understand?

Something I think will happen. It's happened before. It could happen again.

Ah, but you don't know whether or not it will. Is it something you have any control over?

[She feels like she's playing 20 Questions, but she does want to help.]

[Roxas is one of those people who wants help and doesn't want help at the same time. He's a ball of frustration in more ways than one.]

Not really. I don't really get a say in anything.

That would certainly bother me. So you feel helpless, then.

Yeah. I do. It's sort of beyond my control. But I want to have a say in it.

Do you know of a way to gain that control?

I don't. At least. I don't think I do.

I think we may have arrived at why this is bothering you, at the very least. And those are understandable reasons.

As for dealing with it, I can offer you some advice, but I'm not certain it's what you would want to hear.

I need all the advice I can get.

In absence of specifics, then, what I can give you is this:

Sometimes, you have no control. Sometimes, no matter how much you might wish things to be otherwise, you cannot change them. All you can do is accept what is.

I don't want to accept it though.

I don't want to disappear again.

That... is a very understandable thing not to wish to accept.

But on the other hand, it is something everypony must come to terms with. Though I am assuming that your disappearance is functionally equivalent to your death...

It's more...it's hard to explain....

I don't die...

I just. Stop being me.

If you tell me your body is taken over by another entity, I am going to start really wondering about this dream world...

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