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[Of all the Freelancers here, North is probably the happiest to see the Mother of Invention. For all intents and purposes, it's home for him, and after a few months of technicolour monsters and other weird goings-on, it's nice to see something familiar, dream world or not. He spends some time on the bridge, before heading out into the ship, seeing all the familiar places. Mess hall's still intact, and it looks like the common room is as well, with it's lousy selection of books. The training floor hasn't changed, and it's nice to see that his name is still where it should be on the Leaderboard. As troublesome as it is, he is number five and takes a decent amount of pride in that. They don't spend a lot of time there, taking out the nightmares quickly before moving on. It still brings back a few unpleasant memories.

Theta's been pretty quiet throughout the whole journey, but he skates alongside North's head, equally glad for the familiarity. The last time either of them saw this place had been in a dream, so the, somewhat real thing is good to have, and North lets his hand trace the wall. He rounds a familiar corner, and heads to a familiar room.

His barrack is pretty much how he left it. Bed, table, locker, all the comforts of home. He sits down on the bed. Home sweet home. After a few moments, he turns on the communicator.]

I was just thinking that anyone exploring this place might want to avoid the barracks, or at least rooms 1115 and 1116. 1115's mine, and 1116 is my sister's. If she shows up here, I don't think she'd approve of anyone going through her stuff, dream world or not.

[Private text to Xion]

I guess I can actually give you a tour of my world now, if you want it? Unfortunately there's not a lot of places for ice cream.

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I'd imagine so. I believe I recognize a few of the names, as well.

[Carolina was the woman whose arrival had caused such a stir with the moogles. Wyoming seemed to be that man who had arrived, though Ienzo was unsure whether he was avoiding people or if he'd left, at this point. York and Washington were North's companions of course.]

Who are the others?

Well, South Dakota's my sister, if that wasn't obvious.

Tex, I don't know a lot about her. Just that she showed up one day and pretty much showed us all who was in charge. Carolina wasn't happy about that. I don't think she's as scary as she seems.

Maine also hasn't shown up, but he's basically the tank on our team. He doesn't say much, but he's really strong. And also not as scary as he looks.

[Although from what York has told him, that changes. A lot.]

Like Aeleus, I suppose. [Though Aeleus spoke quite a bit, just not unecessarily.] Was it difficult to compete with your sister? I would think it could get awkward at times.

Kind of, but a lot quieter. He had an injury that prevented him from speaking.

[Poor Maine. He stills feels bad about that.]

There were times when things got pretty tense between us, but we were able to work as a team most of the time.

That's a pity; such injuries can't be particularly well treated by magic, either.

[Ienzo nods.]

I don't have any siblings, myself.

It really was. But he wasn't the type to let that get him down.

So you're an only child?

Yes...truthfully I didn't have much interaction with other children for most of my childhood.

[Even excepting the part during which he was an eldritch abomination.]

[North's quiet for a bit. He'd always had his sister around, and he made friends easily as well, so that's kind of hard for him to imagine.]

That...was it lonely?

I didn't really think about it at the time, I admit. The king had taken me in after my parents' deaths and the scientists and guards who worked in the castle looked after me. I was more interested in science than in being with other children, so I was tolerably amused.

[He was better than the other children, so he didn't need to be coddled. Ienzo frowns internally. That sounds like Even in his head, though it equally sounds like Xehanort. Neither person is someone he prefers to take his views from. But he was smarter than the other children. Wouldn't ignoring that have been a waste? Troubling thoughts.]

[In short, Ienzo has lived a very different life from North. And he's not quite sure what to say.]

So, what you're saying is that you're practically a genius?

[Ienzo shrugs. Genius or no, he hadn't noticed what was wrong back then. His plans at Castle Oblivion had been all for naught. Clearly even if he was, he didn't know enough. Or he didn't know the right things.]

Yes, but it's hardly important.

It's counts for something, though, right?

I suppose what I mean is that it didn't help, in the end, with the tragedy that befell my home.

Oh. I'm sorry, Ienzo. I didn't mean to bring up a sore subject.

[Ienzo shakes his head.]

Of course. I apologize for being short with you; I don't recall if I explained before. Ten years ago my world was...I suppose you could say it was destroyed, though the destruction wasn't permanent. I regret not being able to stop it's happening.

[North nodded. He could understand that, in a way. There had been a lot of colonies lost in the war after all.]

That...must have been tough. Again, I'm sorry for bringing it up.

You couldn't have known.

[Ienzo sighs. Let's get this on a topic that isn't his horrific crime against his own world, shall we?]

I'm glad you had someone to spend your childhood with. Was your sister very like you?

Try almost exact opposite, to be honest. She's a lot more...outgoing than I am.

[That's the nicest word he can use off the top of his head.]

[Exact opposite of North gives Ienzo the mental image of Larxene for a moment. He shakes his head to clear it of that mental image.]

You seem fairly gregarious to me.

[Unfortunately he's not that far off.]

Maybe outgoing was the wrong word...Rash might be better. She's got a pretty strong mind of her own.

Ah. You're the calm, levelheaded one and she's more impulsive. I hope you didn't spend to much time keeping her out of trouble.

[Like Isa and Lea, then. Though North was much more pleasant than Isa to deal with.]

That's a good way of putting it, yeah.

[He sighs.]

More times than I care to count, but that's just who she is. She's done the same for me, the odd time I do.

[South would have reamed him out for letting himself give up that much sleep.]

That's what family does, isn't it? You must miss her terribly in that case.

[Ienzo's fairly sure that Even and Aeleus are family, even if he's not quite sure how they relate to each other all the time. Not that they've ever been effective at keeping each other out of trouble.]

I really do, actually. I think this is the longest we've been apart, and that's saying something.

Even when we enlisted, we were still together.

[That must have been interesting for the two of them. Perhaps one of them followed the other? Well, it's hardly his business to ask.]

Well, hopefully we'll all be able to return home sometime in the future. Or I suppose she might arrive here.

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