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[There's something seriously ironic when your friends get kidnapped again and again and you yourself have not... in almost two years.

So, today, as Riku flips through the journal, he takes a moment to speak.]

You know, I've been here for almost two years, and I've never been kidnapped. It's happened to my friends a few times, probably most of the village too... But it's pretty weird.

Anyone else in the same boat? And if not, how long did it take them to get you?

[Hmm... With that taken care of, he tosses up a quick filter.]

Filtered to Terra//100% Unhackable

Hey. You doing okay?

[A little later, he leaves the house, heading out to the Battle Dome. Once there, he sets up the simulation in a strange area full of floating stones and rushing waterfalls. Several different Heartless appear in large numbers.

At first the fight isn't too hard; he's dealt with Heartless before, after all. However, as the fight progresses and the Heartless increase in number, it becomes a bit harder to dodge all of them. One of the Wyverns swoops down from above with its talons at the ready, and Riku has little time to react.

So, without even thinking, he steps back, as darkness envelopes his body. He reappears right behind the Wyvern and has little time to consider what just happened. Instead, he blasts a thundaga spell to finish the beast.

A few minutes pass, and he leaves the battle dome. For the next few hours, passers by can expect to see him opening up dark corridors to test the waters. It's true that he's held back a little with his darkness, but the fact that the portals work again is enough to merit some experimentation. He'll be all over the place within the village and forest. ]

[ooc: Mods okayed the use of dark corridors a while ago, but I never got around to an IC discovery of them on Riku's behalf, so here we go.]

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That's the strange thing about this place. Some people leave a few days, but to them it takes years. Others leave for months, but to them it could've been a few hours.

About that... it may be an anomaly between the different dimensions. Time may work differently in each.

That's what I figure. It explains why people come from different times, too.

When I first got here, my friends were a year ahead of me. Even now, I'm still from their past.

I think... This time, Usagi-chan was from a very far future.

[Like a thousand years. But she can't exactly say that.]

Friend of yours?

I guess you could say that. We were from very slightly different worlds, but she was still Usagi-chan. And we knew each other here for awhile.

Did she remember this place when she got back?

Mm. So did I, after awhile.

Guess it'd be harder to remember after a few years. When I got back, I remembered everything, but I had to catch up on a few things. Didn't know how long I'd been gone here.

I didn't remember at first, like I said. But then it gradually came back, sort of hazy. It became clearer over time.

Still, at least you did remember. Most people don't.

It seems we have very different experiences. [She frowns thoughtfully, because this changes what she thought she norm was, potentially.]

I know Usagi-chan remembered, and Giles, too. I thought it was common.

Well, my friend Sora's left a few times, and every time he came back, he didn't remember Luceti.

It depends.

I wonder what determines that.

Hard to say. The only way to find out is to ask the Malnosso, and I doubt they'd explain.

All we can do is keep talking to each other and look for a pattern.

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