3rd Day [Text]

[seasaltkeys]

[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.]

Comments

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Is this a new friend or a new enemy?

[Probably friend, but it's definitely not a dream eater York's seen before. At least it was distracting Roxas from the funk that he was in, even if it was doing it by tossing things at his head.]

[seasaltkeys]

A new friend. I won him in the struggle tournament.

[Flipper squeaks and starts bouncing his ball again. Roxas keeps a eye on him, in case he decides to throw it at him again.]

I'm still training him though.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

That's a pretty cool prize.

[They could work around to what was bothering Roxas. York hadn't had much to do with kids recently, but he'd been decent with them before. But then, kids here seemed to be more grown up than he'd have expected from back home, unless it was a colony kid who'd been under siege. Hm. Maybe that was something to think about.]

[seasaltkeys]

It would be cooler if he stopped throwing stuff at my head.

[But he supposed the seal was alright. Useful in a fight and that was what mattered.]

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Maybe it wants to play catch with you.

[Yeah, okay, this talking around things wasn't working.]

[seasaltkeys]

I tried.

[The look on his face says it didn't work and the seal snickers again. Roxas looks up and down the street.]

If this conversation's gonna happen, can we go somewhere less open?

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Sure. Where to?

[The station tower would work; not many people would want to climb that without a reason.]

[seasaltkeys]

[Roxas looks around, trying to find the best spot.]

I guess the clock tower's the most private place.

[It's still hard to go up there though. Doesn't look like any of this will be easy.]

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Sounds good.

[York started to head up the hill. Something was weighing on the kid; he only hoped he could help Roxas more than he'd been able to help Wash since getting here.]

Just going to fast forward them if that's alright.

[seasaltkeys]

[Roxas sits away from the edge when they get to the top. Normally, he'd sit on the edge and look out at the town and the sunset but he's not in the mood for that. With everything weighing on him and his memories, it's hard to even do that.

He looks around, blankly.]

I don't really know where to start.

Yes good

[allfunandgamesuntil]

[It helps to know what's bothering someone, but Roxas might not want to share. They can start there, though, and work out from that point.]

Well, we can start off with general stuff. I saw your post to Wash, a while back; are you worried about the crack in the wall?

[He'd noticed Roxas was wary of it.]

[seasaltkeys]

Yeah. Well, not just the crack, but what's behind it.

The mansion.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Did something happen there?

[seasaltkeys]

[Roxas nods, trying to find the right words.]

Yeah, something did.

That's hard to explain though.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

[York nods. Sometimes things could be too hard to put into words. Especially the really terrible stuff.]

You don't have to tell me about it if you don't want to.

[seasaltkeys]

That kinda beats the point of me getting advice though.

I mean, that's why we're here, right?

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Yeah, it is.

[York pauses.]

If it's something hard to talk about, the best way is to start at the beginning and just push through. There's no way to make it easier to talk about with people.

[seasaltkeys]

[Roxas nods. He's quiet for a moment, trying to figure out where that beginning is.]

Right.

I guess this all starts with Sora, because I'm...I'm part of him.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Part of him? How does that work?

[That sounds like...more of this weird heart stuff that this place has going on.]

[seasaltkeys]

I'm his nobody.

[He's soldiers on, just trying to get through it.]

At some point, when he was trying to save the worlds, he had to turn himself into a heartless, and I showed up at the same time. I didn't know though. Axel says I was like a zombie back then.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

Okay. So he became a heartless, and you were born.

[It sounds like the fragmentation process; York can feel Delta curl up into a tighter ball in the back of his head. Delta didn't figure that he'd be in on this conversation for Roxas' comfort, but it looks like he'll want to bow out for his own protection as well.]

[seasaltkeys]

Yeah, exactly. But I didn't know about Sora then. But I guess he managed to turn back into a human, and so we were existing at the same time, which is not supposed to happen. And then he got his memories all mixed up, so he had to go to sleep to put everything straight.

I didn't know about any of that. I was just running missions for the Organization.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

So you just figured you were an ordinary kid?

[If he didn't have any memories to compare his life to, Roxas would have thought was going on around him was normal. Especially if you have routine, it's easy not to question things and just go with it.]

[seasaltkeys]

I dunno about ordinary, I just did what I was told. I had friends though, and I liked being with them.

[Even if he can't really remember one of them.]

We used to come up here every day after we were done our missions and eat ice cream and watch the sunset.

[He sighs]

This is where it gets complicated.

[allfunandgamesuntil]

[So the complicated part was not being part of someone else who came to life and stayed that way after he wasn't supposed to any longer.]

Okay, I'm listening.