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soggypastry[Private Text to: Riku and Xion]
Team Rocket's list of targets changed. You're both on it now, so stay sharp and watch your backs. I don't know when they'll move on any of us.
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[It's been almost three months since he left, with only a letter to say goodbye. To say that Lightning hadn't been thinking about him as the day that would have been thier first anniversary drew nearer would be a lie, and she's taken it with remarkable grace when all things are concerned.
Or maybe she's just used to getting left behind. Who knows. All she knows is there's a house on the beach with too many memories and dreams, and she can barely look at Lucky or Strike without expecting him to be right at her side. She has to put that part of her past to rest if she's going to be able to lead the Corps in the best way she can, and so she's come to the seaside once more. Something a young boy once taught her matters more than she ever thought it would now.
Those passing close to the Radio tower will find her crouched at the railing, a lit sparkler in one hand and a bottle with a letter in the other as her Lucario stands guard nearby, gear in paw. Today would have been special, if he were here. But he isn't and it's just one more anniversary of loss. One more thing that needs to be shaken off.]
Turn it off, Sen.
[The Lucario in question yelps, but it's only in surprise, not fear. Lightning's voice is steady and quiet, and she rises to her feet as the sparkler burns out and leaves ash in the wind. She moves to the railing now, but Sen manages to end the feed just as the bottle that was in her hand drops out of sight and into the ocean.
A few minutes later, however, something else hits the network. The fact that it's an anonymous text may make people wary, but there's nothing untoward about this one. No, this one is the exact opposites of the others that have gone out.]
[Anon Text]
If someone gave you a chance to help protect this world and everyone who lives here from the people who want to harm it, would you do it? Or would you stand by and watch it burn like the Lighthouse?
[Anon Text]
Date: 2012-08-29 03:01 am (UTC)If it doesn't get in the way of my mission, I would. I'd never hear the end of it if I didn't.
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Date: 2012-08-29 03:05 am (UTC)Anon Text
Date: 2012-08-29 03:05 am (UTC)action;
Date: 2012-08-29 03:06 am (UTC)Palum sits at his feet like a big black fox while he watches both Light and his Gear.]
action;
Date: 2012-08-29 03:24 am (UTC)Text. Not Anon.
Date: 2012-08-29 03:52 am (UTC)action;
Date: 2012-08-29 04:00 am (UTC)He's not going to ask how she is. That will just be silly. Instead he just smiles for her sake, and shakes his Gear a little.]
We're getting a good deal of them.
[Action]
Date: 2012-08-29 04:00 am (UTC)Thinking about the past?
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Date: 2012-08-29 04:24 am (UTC)video-locked
Date: 2012-08-29 04:25 am (UTC)Then maybe you should start answering calls that go out to the Corps, Hikari.
[Action]
Date: 2012-08-29 04:29 am (UTC)Something like that. Thinking about what could have been.
action;
Date: 2012-08-29 04:31 am (UTC)That's why I said we needed to use the network. If we'd kept this to people we trusted, we wouldn't have gotten this much of a response.
[Granted, Cobra's reply to this has her clearly on edge...or maybe that's just her default setting when this close to an enemy controlled base. Don't mind her warily watching the radio tower, Hope. Don't mind her at all.]
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Date: 2012-08-29 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-29 04:51 am (UTC)[Anon Text]
Date: 2012-08-29 04:55 am (UTC)And what's this mission of yours? If it's finding a way back, you've already failed. We don't get to go back by choice.
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Date: 2012-08-29 04:57 am (UTC)With a plan like that, who wouldn't want to be your friend.
[Anon Text]
Date: 2012-08-29 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-29 05:00 am (UTC)[Anon Text]
Date: 2012-08-29 05:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-29 05:04 am (UTC)That's something I'm all too familiar with myself. It isn't difficult to get lost in the what-ifs of the past, especially if one has led a difficult life -- in fact, I'd say it's too easy.
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Date: 2012-08-29 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-29 05:06 am (UTC)Even if you have other things to deal with. The past has ways of catching up with you. [sigh.] No matter how hard you try and outrun it, it always catches up.
[Anon Text]
Date: 2012-08-29 05:06 am (UTC)I won't need a group.
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Date: 2012-08-29 05:08 am (UTC)[Anon Text]
Date: 2012-08-29 05:09 am (UTC)That's a stupid way to think. You're stronger with others than you could ever be on your own, even if it's just for training.