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[keythatconnects]

Who: Sora and OPEN
Broadcast: Video, Fleetwide
When: Sometime during the glitches.

Hey, so, this might seem weird but...

The last time I had weird dreams that had real-life consequences and saw things that were kind of there but not really, I had all of my powers and strength taken from me. It was not fun. I seem to be okay this time around, but, uh...

Maybe someone else isn't?

Consider this a way to check in! Is everyone doing okay?

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[keythatconnects]

People are saying calibrations have happened before, yeah.

But the stuff that happened to me happened before I got here. Like, right before.

[somakemelaugh]

In another world, or right here where we are now, as soon as you were made to be here?

[With people from all over, he can never be sure. He remembers the drowsiness, the soft ache behind his ear, then suddenly knowing things he had no memory of being taught or learning.]

I haven't been here long, but it might as well have been an age and a day.

[keythatconnects]

In another world. Back home?

And, man. Sorry about that. This place can be a lot at the best of times, and it seems like they brought you over during the worst of them.

[somakemelaugh]

Your world must have been fascinating.

[He lifts a shoulder and a hand in a shrug.] What can I do? I didn't choose to be here any more than I chose to be back in the Quarantine, but I managed to get by well enough. You seem to have done the same.

[keythatconnects]

Worlds. I come from a place with more than one.

And I'm doing all right! Things back where I came from are pretty bad too, so I've gotten used to it. And I can make it through with good friends at my side.

[somakemelaugh]

Worlds, eh? That's a first. Most people I've met across the Quarantine had just one world to call home. Might not be much different here.

[But that? He has to wonder at that. His voice quiets just a tad, accent softening with it.] Good friends are hard to come by when trust is in short supply. There was a lot of that where I've been. Is it like that here, too, or do you find it easier to have faith in humanity or whatever, as it were?

[keythatconnects]

I never have trouble making friends where I go, but... I think it's mostly because I'm always able to find people who are just trying to do their best. There might be bad things in every world, bad people who want to use and hurt others, but there are also always good people. People who want to help one another, and who maybe need a little bit of help to stop the bad ones. When you find those people, you can make friends that will cross the distance of space and time.

Those people make everything worth it.

[somakemelaugh]

[Sounds like this boy is one of those ever hopefuls. He doesn't belittle that, but for the kid's sake, he hopes he has learned some wariness in his travels.]

What an extraordinary experience your journey must have been, to come out with that outlook on people. It's almost as if the world has been kind to you most of the way. Do you hear that often?

[keythatconnects]

I don't...

Why do you think that? Have you seen something else from people?

[somakemelaugh]

[There's a light shrug.]

Might be I'm a bit biased. I come from another world, having been taken out of my home world, where the people have been through ordeals of their own and they've learned to survive as best they can. None with the outlook you have, or if they are quite so hopeful, they simply haven't known some terrible, awful series of tragedies. People dying in the worst ways and such.

[If he sounds numb to this, well... He has Seen Things.]

[keythatconnects]

That is awful.

I'm sorry that you had to go through that.

[somakemelaugh]

Ah, no worries. But thank you. Sympathy might not be needed, but it is appreciated. It just is what it is. I've been long past it all and here I am now, working to please the masses of our audience, such as it is.

[And, before they get too much further.] Please, call me Undertaker. What might I call you?

[keythatconnects]

Oh! I'm Sora.

It's nice to meet you, Undertaker.

[somakemelaugh]

A pleasure. Tell me, where might I find you if I was so inclined? They keep you on a ship here, I imagine. Otherwise, we'd be in a bit of a spot.

[keythatconnects]

Oh! I'm usually on the Bishop. I'm security there.

[somakemelaugh]

I see. There's two security officers I know. Who might the lab technician for your ship be, if you would be so kind? Nothing for it, I'm only curious.

[keythatconnects]

Oh, well we don't have a lab. The closest we have is an engineer. That's Hux.

[somakemelaugh]

Oh, dear. I do hope there aren't many injuries what occur often there. I've heard we can't die here, but still, better safe than sorry. But I suppose you can always take the injured to another ship, but what a bother.

[keythatconnects]

I can heal some.

My magic isn't as strong here as it was back home, but I can make it so we can get someone to another ship if we need.

[somakemelaugh]

Magic, is it? That's unusual. Most people I've known haven't called it that. What is this magic you mean? Is it like that fairy tale, cast a spell and whatnot?

[keythatconnects]

Yeah! It's pretty much exactly like that.

[somakemelaugh]

Oh? So you can... heal people, make them better. How do you do it? In those stories, the people say words and wave magic wands around. Is that what you do to make the magic happen?

[keythatconnects]

Uh... I say a spell yeah? Usually I'd use my keyblade, but it's not as easy to call it here.

[somakemelaugh]

[Key... blade? Okay, maybe he can see that.] Fascinating. Is that why your magic isn't as strong? Something to do with that little item?

[keythatconnects]

That's right! Keyblades are made from a person's heart, and they strengthen your connection to it. That's where the magic comes from.