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Hey everyone. This is Kairi.

I just want everyone to know, I checked this morning and I've been looking around to make sure, and it's confirmed at this point... Sora is no longer with us.

I... Light, I really don't have much else to say beyond that. He wasn't at home when we were brought here, and I don't know what's going to happen to him when he's sent back, but... hopefully, some way, somehow, he manages to make it back to the islands.

That's all I've got. If you'll all excuse me, I'm gonna eat all the ice cream we've got in the house.

[And then cry herself to sleep.]

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[She's almost annoyed at the fact that someone's texting her while she's busy mourning, thank you, she just sent out this message for the sake of all Sora's other friends...

But when she recognizes Roxas's username, that flies straight out the window. Light, the poor boy... he's probably feeling just as awful as her.]

I'll leave the door unlocked. I'll be in the kitchen.

Thankfully, it's the only text she'll be getting because his light steps means he's at her door not that long after sending it. Though it also means he might be more out of breath than usual. Since light steps still require Chroma.

He doesn't bother to knock this time since she mentioned leaving the door open and just quietly pulls it open so he can walk inside.

"Kairi... ?"

"Hey."

The quiet call comes from the kitchen, where Kairi is settled at the table, slowly making her way through a bowl of fruity ice cream. She lifts her spoon in greeting, looking at his face, before her eyes fall again.

"If you feel as bad as I do, we're quite a pair right now, you and I."

Roxas sure knows how that is. He's gorged himself on his share of sweet cream following Xion and Axel's disappearances. He finished off most of the toppings in the house following Naminé's vanishing act. He hasn't picked up any more since. Something about them just seem too associated with her. They had always enjoyed decorating their treats together. It had been something he never tried with the others.

He sighs and looks to the side. "I guess, I just didn't think he'd be one of the ones to leave." Too much was uncertain for Sora back home. He was safer here than anywhere.

Not that anyone had a chance on when they were called back from this place.

He steels himself up again so he can join Kairi at the chair beside her. "Was there any sign at all that something was different?"

"No. He just.... vanished. Like all the others. One day he's there with us, right next to me, the next..."

She gives a shrug and a sigh, her eyes downcast, looking beaten-down and just ready to curl up and quit.

"Gone."

If only there'd been some sort of sign his departure was different, unique in some way. Maybe she'd be a little less blindsided by all this if there had been.

Roxas' head hangs a bit at that as well. "He didn't even get to give a heartfelt speech this time." He reaches for Kairi's hand. "But he touched even more hearts here. Maybe all of them will help him find his way."

She turns her own hand upwards to accept his, and gives a little shrug and sigh. "That's about all we can hope for, isn't it? Though now I'm wondering if he would show up back home, or here."

She'd accept either one, really. She'd just like to know it'd be one of them.

"I think it depends on where you are. You're the one he always finds in the end."

Somehow, she goes bright red at that, ducking her head.

"That's not... quite true. I mean, when he woke up with you inside him he wasn't anywhere near me."

It had been his memories of her that even allowed that to happen in the first place, but with what happened in the castle being so up in the air, she didn't really know that.

Roxas tilts his head a little to the side. "You don't think our meeting had anything to do with that? He's always been good at tracing connections." Which is why Roxas understood how his own worked now. "We'll just have to trust that for now."

"You mean when we found each other in our dreams?" Honestly, she still wished she'd been able to hunt him down from there, but it was true that had been when her memories of Sora really started to come back. When the connection really reopened.

"I guess there's not much else we can do, is there?"

"Yeah. That's when things really started to change for me too."

He squeezes her hand a bit tighter. "We can make sure nobody here forgets him. I've been learning about different things people do to keep their friends in their thoughts when they're away from each other. Someone even taught me about something called origami the other day."

"Wow, you really have been learning new things."

Not that there's any surprise in that. Roxas had so much to learn, so many new things he could do with himself when he arrived. It's only natural he'd try as many of them as he could.

"Yeah, that... that makes sense. Keeping him in our thoughts, and everyone else's as much as we can... that's about the best we can hope for, really."

"Yeah, we could make him something together. The person who taught me about origami said he creates animals to symbolize his connection to his missing friends. Maybe we could do something like that?"

"I... huh. All I really know is poetry." The gears in her mind are turning, though. She did write that one poem that led Sora and Riku back to the islands.

Maybe it's time to put those skills to work again.

"Uh, I don't know much about poetry at all. It's a little like singing, right? Without the music?"

"More or less. It's easy to combine with other things, though. You were mentioning origami, right? Maybe you can fold paper after I write on it or... something." Okay, so she's kind of grasping at straws here.

Roxas attempts a weak smile. At least he's not rampaging around as a dragon like last time. Mostly because this is about more than just his feelings.

"I like that idea. Then it will have both feelings at the same time. Should I try for a fox or something else?"

"He was mostly a fox..." Of course Roxas new that already, why else would he have brought that up? Kairi was mostly just thinking out loud though.

"I don't remember him really being a fan of any other animals. You think you can make a fox alright?"

"I can practice before I use your poem paper. Maybe I can get Otonashi to make sure I have the technique down first. We mostly practiced on birds so far." Since they're the easiest to master.

"That's a good idea. I might have to use different paper than I usually write on, too. Unless you think you can fold note paper the right way?"

It seems a bit too thin and floppy for that, but Roxas is the one who knows what he's doing.

"Oh yeah, I think you need special paper for origami. The kind that's really smooth and seems kind of shiny." He would want to use nice paper for Sora's memento anyway. "Otonashi said it forms neater creases than the other kind so the shape ends up looking really crisp and delicate."

"I'll practice writing on that then. I usually need to go through a few drafts before I manage to get anything good anyway." And given how long it's been since she's written anything, this'll probably take more times than usual.

"It's gonna be a while before we get this done, I think."

"I think that's okay. It can be something we're working toward." And maybe a way of feeling slightly less helpless.

"It will be pretty nice to have a project for a while, actually." Something to distract herself with, at least a little.

Not that it's possible to distract herself too much, just... she can try.

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