Message 06. Lighting Fires

[unrecovered]

Everyone's been talking about finding the keyhole or the pieces of the keyhole or whatever. Here's my question: has anyone actually started looking yet?

[Oh look, he disapproves of all of you. Yep, still Tuesday.]

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[salvagedlight]

[You know what? Unlike everyone else, Ven doesn't look annoyed or whatever. He looks kind of taken aback, which is unusual for someone who's personally been on the end of one of Wash's tirades already. And then that look changes to... concern? Yeah, concern. He's not sure what, but... something's... off about Wash.]

Are you okay?

[unrecovered]

Yeah. I'm great.

[Actually, he's sleep deprived and reliving the worst thing that ever happened to him every night, so no, he's really not doing well. The wall of sarcasm and anger is just easy to hide behind, that's all.]

[salvagedlight]

[Sorry, Wash, that's just too blatantly a lie. And now Ven is starting to worry, though it is mostly staying off his face. Mostly.]

No... you're not. What happened?

[unrecovered]

[He gives a short, bitter laugh.]

And here I thought everyone was having recurring dreams. Good to see you're immune.

[salvagedlight]

[And he shakes his head, folding his arms over his chest.] I'm having them, same as everyone. [He's just more or less come to terms with what his dreams are about. Especially after talking to Sora, he's pretty sure his dream is entirely true, even though he doesn't remember some of it. He's a smart enough kid to realize that Wash's dreams are probably a lot worse than his, too, and probably much more unhappy and, yes, triggering.] Are you going to be okay? Really okay, not just pretending to be.