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Posted: May 2
From: Artemis

Selene and Aphrodite left. Selene's shinki Riku is gone, too. If anyone was friends with them, just wanted to let you know that's why you can't find them.

And for anyone who doesn't know, Axel is dead.

[Roxas isn't going to go into more details on that last one.]

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[They left? That is just... completely baffling.]

Why?

[Senri certainly wouldn't leave even if he knew how...]

[This is never easy to explain, but he'll give Senri the simple version like he does with everyone else.]

The world sent them home. They got to go home to their loved ones.

[Even if he knows that Naminé and the others might be going back to rather hard lives. At least he can give some kind of reassurance?]

[The truly confusing thing here is that his friends apparently had another home besides this one. Senri has heard people talk about 'their world' and 'his world' but he doesn't yet grasp what that means.

This world is the only one he knows, so he still can't comprehend people leaving. But it sounds like maybe they didn't leave on purpose? Maybe it wasn't their fault. But that also means there's not much anyone can do about it. Will headpats help? It's literally the only other way he knows of to comfort someone.]

[Would Senri be sad to find out that Roxas' home is literally inside another persons heart? That this is more of a home than he's ever had other than Koriko?

Roxas closes his eyes when he gets the headpats. Simple things like that are nice.]

They might come back one day. Maybe.

[That would be a huge problem. Since Senri has no idea how to follow him into someone's heart. Or how to get Roxas back out of someone's heart. Either of those solutions would be fine, but it still sounds really difficult....

It's.... probably a good thing he doesn't know that. For now he nods encouragingly. They might come back someday. Which would be great because it would make Roxas less sad. At least Senri is still here? Is there anything else he can do to help? That's what the questioning look he's giving his god right now means, but Senri can be hard to interperet. ]

[Don't worry. Sora is figuring out a way to make Roxas his own person in their world.

He's hoping that somehow the people who left will come back the same. With memories of this place. It would be awful otherwise. He's had that happen way too often. Maybe the next time Axel shows up, though, it would be as a god... he needs his best friend to be his best friend again.]

Sora said that that no matter how far apart you are, our hearts are always connected.

[Senri frowns and pokes at his chest as if he could somehow feel heart connections. Nope. No strings or anything. And there doesn't seem to be any in the vicinity of Roxas's chest either.

He's a little skeptical of Sora's theory.]

[Oh!]

It's not a literal connection. It's just something you feel.

[The head tilt that precedes the hesitant nod makes it clear that Senri doesn't quite understand. He feels plenty of things, but how do you know when one of these connections is what you're feeling?

He concludes that this Sora person must be very smart to have figured that out.]

[Sora is more sappy than smart. Roxas still teases him at times about it.]

It's hard to get, isn't it.

[An emphatic nod. A lot of things around here are really hard to understand. He is trying though.

Oh but maybe these 'connections' are like the things in his book? Each object in it represents a person. In a way, it represents his 'connection' to that person. He pulls the book out to look it over. He feels like he's getting closer to understanding it anyway...]

[He smiles, looking at the book. Roxas is glad that Senri has something like that.]

I think that's your 'hreat'. It's a book, but everyone you know and like are in there, right?

[That makes a lot of sense actually. This book is his memory. It's something he would guard with his life. Something he can never risk losing. So maybe that does qualify it as his 'heart.' He runs a hand over the cover softly.]

Memories...

[Maybe using a book as the example from the get go may have been easier. Oh well, at least Senri understands.]

Memories are really important.

[Please. He never wants to lose his again.]

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