ⅶ - [voice/action]

[mnementomori]

[there's the sound of someone clearing her throat, then unsteady breathing for a short moment.]

I just--...

Is everyone okay?

[the question wavers for a moment, before the girl stumbles into the rest of her words.]

Did anyone get hurt? It's just, I haven't seen--

[the sound of cloth rustling.]

Never mind.

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[anyone by the clock tower will find Xion there, Keyblade in hand, despite the danger of the flowers. She's looking over the destruction caused by her fight with Paderau, when they were monsters. The glass doors are shattered beyond repair, and a large chunk of the wall still clinging to the torn away hinges, the steps littered with shards of glass. Inside, sections of the tracks buckle upward, metal rails torn clean in two, walls gouged by oversized claws and scorch marks. Thankfully the main structural points are still intact, leaving the tower standing.]

I'm sorry, I couldn't....protect it. Is that why you're nowhere I can find?

[she tugs her her hood up closer around her face, and steps carefully into the wreckage.]

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voice;

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

[She's quiet, too, thinks about how it's safer for Fela to be here, but then there is how much she misses others in her family.]

I think... it would have been better if we had the choice, to refuse her invitation, or take it.

voice;

[mnementomori]

You're right. [she's nodding to herself, though you can't see it.] Except...I'm not sure I would have. But now, I'm...I know better than that.

voice;

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

If you're happier here, safer, then I'm glad.

voice;

[mnementomori]

I...

[she pauses, unsure of how much she should say.]

I got to meet people here I never would have back home. And those memories we've created...they mean more to me than anything.

voice;

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

That's how I try to think on it, too. New people from other worlds, things to learn.

[She pauses, because that's how she tries to think on it, but it's often very difficult. But she can't keep wallowing in it or laying it on other people. Better to carry on talking about Xion, she decides.]

Memories are very important, especially those you weave with others. It's good that you hold them strong.

voice;

[mnementomori]

[to her, memories are everything, really.]

Do...you want to go home, Mahalia?

voice;

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

Yes. Very much so. But... my sister is safer here, and I have made friends.

voice;

[mnementomori]

Your sister?

I...I hope you can get home, then. Maybe the Queen could fix things so people could just...visit whenever they wanted.

voice;

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

Fela. You might have seen her? She's older than me, and... we don't look very alike.

Thank you, I hope so too. Maybe she can. I don't believe she can keep people here against their will forever.

voice;

[mnementomori]

Fela? I don't think so...but I'll remember.

Yeah. I'll ask her the next time I see her. Maybe she'll listen.

voice;

[mellifluently.livejournal.com]

She's lovely, you'll like her.

You will? Thank you. [She doesn't place much stock in the Queen, but it's nice that Xion would do that for her.] I hope she does.

voice;

[mnementomori]

If she's your sister, I'm sure. [she's just learned about family recently, but that seems like the right thing to say.]