PILOT'S LOG 1.03 ✈ AUDIO; CONSOLE

[merb]

So when the information on this place said that people you know could appear... and then disappear... without warning? There could have been a subsection about it only lasting two weeks.

[ A silence, just a shade longer than a subject change would have necessitated. ]

What kinds of metals are commonly used in your worlds? I'm having some trouble finding comparable materials.

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Re: audio;

[needmetoo]

[There's a sad sort of sigh there.]

Yeah. Like they said, like no time's passed... and they don't remember.

[That... somehow stings. A lot more than it should.]

Then again... maybe it's better he forgets some of what happened, anyway.

[Her voice cracks a little. The very idea is like kicking herself in the gut and yet... that is one of the clear things she does remember, how upset he'd been. How protective he'd been afterwards. If her being careless had hurt him, maybe it was better he didn't have to remember that.]

Re: audio;

[merb]

It's not.

[ The reply comes surprisingly quick, and in a very different tone than the unsure awkwardness of a moment ago. ]

Getting forgotten, even... partly, or for a few years, is bad. Being remembered means you made a difference.

audio;

[needmetoo]

[The intensity of his reply startles her, makes her pause for a moment but then...]

But... what if remembering just makes it worse? What if the difference was a bad one?

[Roxas had spent so much of his time in Keeliai worried about her, unable to help her, unable to stop what'd happened. She knew it upset him, knew it, even though Nobodies weren't supposed to be able to get upset.]

Re: audio;

[merb]

[ There's a silence on his end, and then a sigh. ]

Look, Xion... just-- just take it from me, okay? I had some time in the Wastelands, back in Atmos, to think about this.

You can't... ever change what people think of you, if they think you're gone, if they don't remember. You're stuck with whatever they last knew about you, no matter how awful it was, and trust me, that's worse.

Remembered is-- a lot better than nothing.