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If you could send one message to someone that wasn't here. What would it be?

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[Even a week after the Darkness attacks, there's been a lot on Riku's mind. The nightmares keep coming and the memories from his time as Taken are completely restored, which isn't... a good thing in his mind.

He's even stopped training for a while, and now can be found sitting on the bleachers of the sports fields, one leg bent so that he could rest his chin on his knee, looking pensive. Having not retrieved his Keyblade from Sora, he doesn't have much other than training swords to practice with, but he's not exactly sure he wants his Keyblade back just yet.

Or at all, really.]

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[He doesn't mean to bring up bad memories for her, but he's curious...]

Are these for your mom?

Yeah.

That was more than one though wasn't it? I cheated.

[Over text, that joke can sound sincerely playful, despite her feeling terrible about her last moments with her mother all over again.]

If it's for her, I think you're allowed.

[It's her mom after all. Everyone's are special to them, especially when they lose them.]

I left her with no idea or explanation of what happened to me. In her mind, I just disappeared. I can't imagine what she's thinking.

That she probably misses you, and would want to see you again.

That's the thing - she won't.

What do you mean?

[She wasn't being that literal, was she?]

Riku, I'm dead back home. I'll never see anyone back there again. The gods can't send people like me home alive.

That's true, I won't deny that. But just cause that is the case, it doesn't mean that your cut out from her life. She probably thinks about her as much as you do with her. You're in her heart and her thoughts, just as she is in yours. Even if you can't see her, you still have a powerful bond.

[He always assumed that it was her mother who passed away, and not her.]

Other people have said things like that too. Like that she knows I'm okay right now, and she's proud of me even though she doesn't know what I had to do. Sometimes I believe it, but sometimes

it just seems like too much of a stretch.

It isn't. Where I come from, that sort of belief, that way of thinking can be really powerful. It's a driving force and thinking that things will be okay, believing in other people, it's what makes them do whatever they have to do to make things right. You need to hold onto hope, even if it seems like you can't. Otherwise, what else do you have?

[There's a long silence, but the line isn't cut off.]

Maybe it is where I come from too, but I just never realized it. Maybe that's what made her so strong.

I'll try to believe, Riku. I'll keep writing her letters and try to believe that she's hearing everything I'm telling her.

[He wouldn't think much of it if she did cut him off. It's a hard topic to deal with.]

Maybe. I'm sure she'd appreciate you trying too. Just trying will be enough.

I'm glad you're my friend, Riku. You're never hard on me, but you always manage to pull me out of my bad times. I really appreciate it.

[His own reply is delayed, trying to think of how he could handle this. He's... not always the greatest friend to everyone.]

Something just tells me that you don't deserve a lot of the negative feelings and emotions you carry. You deserve something better. I'm glad you're my friend as well, Nakama.

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