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[fixed_destiny]

[Boy that sure looks like Xehanort (or Terra, just differently colored, one of the two is clearly a Shiny), just ignore the dirt smudges and the leaf sticking to his clothes, they mean nothing. He looks .. rather tired.]

Is there a list anywhere, or notices or a book or message board or something that one might peruse to find out what they've missed over the past couple of months? Has any progress been made on figuring out what to do about the pending world-ending problem?

[A small pause, and he frowns.]

Also, does anyone know where I might find Takeshi?

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[fixed_destiny]

[For a moment, he doesn't reply, expression sober, as if he's carefully picking his next words.]

I ... disagree. I would rather those I know and trust over strangers any day. It isn't that there's something 'wrong' with strangers, but they are ... unknown. How do you trust a stranger with an experiment, never mind a life?

[After a moment, it's waved off. Xehanort trusts nobody, friends are ... difficult, and he doesn't want to dwell on it.]

But we can't influence the dreamwidth as we are. I dare say I would not have been able to even when I was a god. Then too, people came and went at the whim of greater powers.

[wheretheresawill]

Well, I mean, pretty much everyone who's ever been here was a stranger to me, at first. But once you get to know people, it's easy! [Whispers.] Also they can hear you, so you shouldn't be rude. [Terra they can hear you saying that even if you whisper. Terra that's not how Mognet works.]

I'm not sure the Dream Width is something we should be trying to influence. It's...dangerous, to open yourself that much to something like that.

[fixed_destiny]

Let them hear!

[Xehanort shakes his head, scowling.]

Everyone knows trust is earned, and anyone who wants trust without trying to earn it first is up to something.

[he knows, it's practically been his M.O. since waking up.]

And anyway, of course it's dangerous. Most things worth doing or knowing are. But as I just said, we can't do it, so fear not. Treat the idea as idle musing or a game, not a serious suggestion.

[wheretheresawill]

It's important to give people a chance! If you never let people in, how will you ever get to trust them? And why should they bother trying to earn your trust?

[fixed_destiny]

I rather wonder at the meaning you're projecting into my words. I never said that strangers were not to be given a chance to earn trust, but if they don't want to earn it, then they don't get it.

[The iMog tablet is set down, image going sideways. Hey, there's star stickers on the ceiling!]

It's not rude or wrong to like and prefer your friends over complete unknowns, Terra. And it is expected to mourn the absence of people you know, whether or not strangers are around. We are all the stolen children of other worlds. I daresay everyone who might hear this will understand what it is like to wake up one morning and find friends missing. There's no need to pretend.