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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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text ; I'm so laaaate

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

I think if I could, I would talk to Umi-san. I would tell her about all the monsters here. She would never believe me when I told her dogs breathed fire and hatched from eggs. [Sincere? Sort of. Fuu would waste a call home to do that, just to hear Umi freak out. But she'd do it for the moment of normalcy that came with it. Those she loves know it already, and that's the most important thing.]

It's hard when people go home from here... but there's the consolation that it might be better for them.

text ; LATE DOES NOT EXIST HERE

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

I don't think my friends back home would believe me either if I told them about walking flowers and electric mice.

And you're right. Maybe it's better for them. For us, even.

text ; GOOD TO KNOW. so did they move yet? Yun and I are uncertain on this.

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

And electric sheep, too. Though I think Umi-san would be unsurprised at how much damage they could cause.

It's important to remember that it's unlikely that time is passing in our worlds, as well...

text ; YOUR CALL, GUYS. Since it was their idea.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

If there's one thing I've learned in this world, it's that I hate electric sheep.

You think time's standing still back where we came from?

text; i meant to add then they should be moved in or whatever.

[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

Well, hate is a strong word for the entire species... [Check the OT on that sheep, clover ._.]

That is what I've been told. Any other time I've gone to another world, it has been the case, as well.

text; Sure, why not? Clover promises not to hog the bathroom.

[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

You've been to other worlds? So...this whole time-stopping thing is 100% real?

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

It was in both my cases before. I can't be sure, now, but I believe it wouldn't change.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

Oh. I bet if it changed, someone was bound to notice.

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

It's possible.

I hadn't heard anything about Eagle-san disappearing before I got here. Hikaru-san or Ferio would've been sure to mention something. A disappearance of a visiting commander in our care would've been hard to hide.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

You were in charge of a commander? You must be a pretty important figure. Like a bodyguard.

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

Oh, no not in charge! He's just ill, and we've been doing our best to take care of him. The world he's from hasn't been healthy for him, and Cefiro has been helping him recover... It's really mostly Hikaru-san's doing, more than anything else.

[It's really too bad Route's Eagle is from the anime. Where he dies.]

I'm not a bodyguard, either, but I was a knight for some time. My friends and I are more like... unofficial diplomats, now.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

But it still sounds like you're an important figure. A heroine, even.

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

Not really. I'm just a young lady from another world.

If it's all right, can I ask what you would say and to whom?

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

I'd talk to my brother, and tell him that I miss him, that I'm doing fine, and that I want to see him again.

I'd talk to him for hours if I could. Asking him about what's happening on his end and then telling him about my end...

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

... Siblings are a wonderful gift to have. I'm sorry you have to be without him.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

They are. He was in Johto before me, and we traveled together for a while before he left.

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

You'll have to tell him of your adventures when you return.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

I'll find a way to remember everything so I can tell him.

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that won't be very hard.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

Even if Johto decides it's better for me to not remember anything about it?

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

I don't think Johto has much of a say about your heart. And so long as you've met others here who've changed or moved your heart, it will be impossible to forget.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

My heart, huh.

I can think of some people who'll always be close to my heart.

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

I know I will never let Johto strip me of the memories of the ones I love. Someone dear to me is gone--I will never allow myself to dishonor his memory by forgetting him.

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[4leafcleaver.livejournal.com]

I think I talked to you back then. Told you about faith, hope, love and luck, right?

I'm really sorry he's gone.

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[phoenix-temple.livejournal.com]

There isn't much to be gained in being sorry.

But there's a lot to be gained from the strength of our desire to remember those we've met.