3rd light - video

[destinyembrace]

Who: Kairi
Broadcast: Yep
Action: For anyone who's on the Blue Fish!
When: Later tonight

[It was just a simple message, asking what he was doing, making sure he hadn't fallen asleep again. But she couldn't find him. Like he hadn't ever been there, his name was gone from the list.

No.

Kairi quickly types in Sora's number, hoping maybe it was just a hiccup. She tried sending the message, but nothing. It couldn't find it. She frantically keeps hitting send, willing it to work, to send it to him. She did everything she could think of to try and fix it, in hopes that she was doing something wrong or the device was broken or there was interference or anything but what the cold dread in her stomach told her.

When her options were exhausted, and her panic turned into sadness, she then finally began to cry. He was gone, wasn't he? There was a chance she was wrong, but something in her told her she wasn't wrong. But she had to try, to ask, just in case. So she stubbornly wiped away her tears and opened a new post to address the network.]

So, um. If a person is gone from - if you can't find them on your communicator...

[This is harder than she expected. She has to fight to keep her voice steady. This is not only the first time someone she's known here that has been sent back, it's one of her best friends.]

Unless something isn't working? Is... anyone else's communicator not showing names? It could be that, right?

[But she doesn't believe it. Her voice cracks at the end, and she quickly ends the feed before she starts crying again.]

Comments

[destinyembrace]

[So does she, for all their sakes.]

He... that's right. He was in another place before he was brought here.

[There's the chance that Atroma wouldn't be as kind as whoever had kidnapped Allen to Paradisa. But until there's some kind of proof, Kairi believes - has to believe - that Sora is home safe. And if he's home, then their worlds would be safer for it.]

If he's home, it's... it's for the best. [But it doesn't help the hurt.]

[alwayscomeback]

Paradisa. The [finger quotes time] magical castle.

Yeah, I think anywhere is better than here.

[destinyembrace]

Yeah, that place. He's told you about it?

[That's the most she's ever heard about it, anyway, so she assumes he had.]

Honestly, I can think of worse. But then, even the worst places I can think of back home, at least there's a way out of them.

[alwayscomeback]

He has. Katara was there, too.

Exactly, and there's someone you can fight against, here, there's nothing. Just space, and wherever they send us.

[destinyembrace]

[It seems everyone's been there at some point. Was she, and didn't remember it, like Fenris?]

I... suppose you're right. It's just dangerous, and I-

[She what? Even Kairi didn't know. Her head was just still so jumbled from the shock and sadness from losing him.]

I don't want to be left behind again.

[alwayscomeback]

[Oh, Kairi. Sokka smiles, reaching out to give her shoulder a light squeeze.]

I promise, so long as you're on this ship, you'll never be left behind. We'll always look out for you. Like a confusing and annoying family.

[destinyembrace]

[Kairi squeezes his hand in return and forces a smile. She knows she won't be abandoned or anything like that. It's more that she's just tired of not being able to help, of her friends flinging themselves into danger and her being helpless. But Sokka doesn't know that and she still appreciates his words.]

Thank you. For what it's worth, I don't think you guys are annoying at all.

[alwayscomeback]

Then you have way more patience than most people, because I hate to break it to you, us guys? Super annoying.

[He;s trying to cheer her up with shitty jokes. ]

[destinyembrace]

Maybe, but a little annoyance is good now and then. That's how a crew works. [How a family works.]

[alwayscomeback]

That;s sure how we work, but hey, no one has died yet and the ship is top-notch, so we're doing something right.

[destinyembrace]

That's true. Though unless we're attacked again or run into another angry forest, I think the biggest threat on this ship is indigestion.

[alwayscomeback]

Not a bad threat to face, really.