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Seven and Lotus are gone.

[Ten minutes pass before she texts another message.]

If you could contact one person from your world right now, who would it be, and what would you tell them?

[Private to Santa]

I've got an extra Eevee. [The last one had been given to June.] Want him?

[People who are out at this hour or who decide to go looking for a pink-haired girl will find Clover strolling toward the radio tower, obviously wanting some real alone time. Her long pink hair is down, so no pigtails tonight. That jacket is buttoned all the way up to her ribbon, and she has thrown a coat over everything. While she's still in a skirt, her legs are in pale pink leggings. Gear in hand, she just walks idly on, a downcast expression on her face.

There is much on her mind...not only Seven and Lotus' disappearances, but also Snake, her older brother. It felt like an eternity since she had discovered that he was gone. Probably three months, more or less? And she was beginning to miss him again.

Actually, she always missed him. She had friends in Johto, sure, but...no one could ever replace her brother.]

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[miniworth]

She is a sister whose world I may eventually destroy, in the same way that my own was.

[So he had hoped (tried to fool himself, to some extent) that maybe the two of them would just be stuck here forever. They got along. She made Ken miserable at first, but by the end of their few months together Miles and Franziska weren't fighting with each other any longer. He would probably lose all of that if, in the future, he ended up arresting Manfred von Karma, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to think about such losses.

(Not that any of it mattered now, he thinks to himself, since he was aware of--and had accepted--the fact that he would have to risk losing everything for the sake of pursuing the truth.)

Aside from her and her family, I don't have anybody back there. It makes me very happy to have you and Ken to call my family here.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

[Clover raises her head slowly. That first bit didn't make sense to her at all.]

But...why would you eventually destroy her world?

[miniworth]

... I don't know for sure if it would happen. [Because for him to be sure about it, he has to be sure that the people who told him about this were not lying, and those people are gone, now.]

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

...

Then you shouldn't have to worry about it so much. I don't think you'd ever do such a thing - no, I believe you would never do that.

[She doesn't know what he's been told about his relationship with Franziska, but frankly, Clover doesn't care and means what she just said. Miles, after all, had helped keep another little sister's world stable.]

[miniworth]

If your brother was killed, wouldn't you do everything and anything you can to exact justice?

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

Of course I would! [If she doesn't go crazy first.]

[miniworth]

Exactly. So you would understand how I feel about my father's murder.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but...what does that have to do with your sister?

[miniworth]

Would you like to guess?

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

Your father's killer...and your sister are connected? Somehow? They know each other?

[miniworth]

You could say that.

Furthermore I said I could destroy her world in the same way I had mine destroyed.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

..

N-no way...that's...

[It didn't take long for her to figure it out.]

[miniworth]

Do you have a guess, now?

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

I sure do. But I don't understand...

Her father - your mentor - supposedly killed your father?

[miniworth]

If it's true, the murder came first.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

...Who told you that? Who told you her father was your father's murderer?

[miniworth]

I've told you.

Everybody was from my "future."

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

As in everyone?!

[miniworth]

Of the people I've met who apparently came from my world, there wasn't a single person who was not at least ten years ahead of me.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

You also already told me that.

Did they tell you anything else about your father's murder?

[miniworth]

They told me quite a lot. About Franziska's father, his motives, and his eventual plans.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

...

With everyone agreeing on that...it becomes harder to assume they're just making it up. Unless you can prove they were all in cahoots and had some motive to deceive you.

[miniworth]

And how would I know, right?

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

But hey, is your sister gonna learn law too? I'm guessing she will once she learns how to read, from what I know about your teacher.

[miniworth]

I believe so. She's only three years old back home, but the one I met here seems to have been studying law for a long time.