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[binarysky]

It's that time again, huh? Okay. Here's some advice for the visitors.

[Roxas whips out a small notebook. He's ready for this, man. He knows the score.]

If you're hungry, or you just want ice cream, this is the best place for it.

[Insert directions to the shop HERE.]

If you wanna meet up with anyone you know who's already in the City, the fountain's a good landmark [that is HERE.]

And, if there's anyone who knows me...well, I'm here. [Have some COORDINATES.] Just in case.

Comments

[conjoins]

Does this happen a lot? [ Hey facetwin. :|a ]

[binarysky]

[ Yo, bro. ]

Once every few months, yeah. It gets pretty crowded for a couple of days, and then it's back to normal.

[conjoins]

Oh. [ Thinking.. ] So... there's a possibility we can see people we know?

[binarysky]

Yeah. That happens sometimes.

I hope it happens today, too.

[conjoins]

[ His eyes light up with hope - that could possibly mean.. ]

Oh man. [ even though it's only a prospect, Ventus is grinning already. ] That's great! I hope your friends come!

[binarysky]

Me, too. Unless the deities bring them back here for good, it's the only chance I get to see them.

[ DOWNER ENDING ]

[goshdarnbatku]

[Well this is certainly a surprise; the new world thing he's confused about but trying to take in his stride because hey, new worlds aren't exactly beyond his ken, but suddenly coming face to face with Roxas outside of Sora's heart?

Yeah. Surprising.]

Roxas?

[binarysky]

[Roxas' eyes go wide for a moment, and then he sighs as he lowers the communicator.]

You know, when I said I was here if anyone I knew showed up, I didn't mean you.

[goshdarnbatku]

[Well. Definitely Roxas, and not that other guy who looks just like him.]

I don't blame you for thinking like that.

[binarysky]

[Go bug him instead =n= ]

Whatever.

Welcome to the City. You'll probably be gone in a day or so.

[sorabug]

[did someone say ice cream.]

[binarysky]

[Did someone say adorable child.]

[goshdarnbatku]

[Sorry Nobrody, you don't get rid of him that easily.]

How did you get here? And how long have you been here for?

[binarysky]

The Deities brought me. I'm just one of the permanent residents.

It's been...I dunno. A couple years now.

[goshdarnbatku]

[Deities. Not something he's familiar with, but fishing for more information is something he can do later.

Because apparently Roxas has been here for a couple of years, and that alone is cause for concern... and optimism. Sort of. And also confusion, because a couple of years?]

How is that possible?

[sorabug]

[mayhaps!]

Um — could I get those directions again?

[and, after a few second's thought:]

Please?

[binarysky]

Don't ask me. Magic, I guess. Time doesn't work the same here. Sora's been here just as long and I doubt you noticed him go missing back home.

[binarysky]

Hey, I remember you.

[He...technically is you, or was half of you, once upon a time. Kind of.

He crouches down in front of the kid. D'aw.]

We had ice cream together, didn't we?

[goshdarnbatku]

Sora has? But- but I just saw him.

[And you for that matter but there we go.

And here's a small smile.]

Figures he'd go charging in here first without knowing anything. Where is he?

1/3

[sorabug]

We did?

[Sora may be only five years old or so, give or take, but that's more than enough time to accumulate hundreds of days of ice cream ventures.]

[look at how many Roxas managed to accumulate, after all.]

[so he pauses, mulling over that question, turning the thoughts over and over in his brain....]

[sorabug]

Ah!

[sorabug]

I remember now!

[he claps a tiny fist over his chest exaggeratedly, a big grin on his face.]

You're that talking firefly! I mean — well, you're not actually a bug... [bug or human or not, wings or not, a friend is a friend in Sora's eyes. though, he'll probably go back to his bug theory once Roxas informs him that he's not Ven.]

Do you feel better now?

[binarysky]

I just said time doesn't work the same here.

[He doesn't smile back, but he doesn't look as irritated as he just sounded.]

Back home, probably. Unless he went out to buy something.

[binarysky]

[Roxas can't help but grin. He's not big on kids, but Sora had been a cute one. Him too, technically.]

Uh...I feel fine, but...I'm not a firefly.

I'm Roxas, remember? [Maybe not.]

[goshdarnbatku]

[Back home? At first Riku wants to question that, because Roxas just said that Sora was here, so how could he be back home, but then the other shoe drops and he realises that he must mean home here.

He really must have been here a long time.]

So you two got the chance to meet each other after all. That's good.