3 ~ if you were to ask me when I stopped believing [audio/action]

[menial]

['December 18th. According to this calendar, anyway. My body calendar, if such a thing exists, is stuck somewhere in the limbo between May and December. If I'm expecting the world to change again, it should be today, shouldn't it?

...Tch, that's a stupid hope. I haven't heard anything from the other Brigade members, Haruhi evidently hasn't either, and all in all, this anniversary is coming a lot earlier than I'd hoped. Though even if it had been a year later, it would've been earlier than I'd hoped.

There must be something about this season that inspires all this melancholy...']

[voice; filtered away from Haruhi // 40%]

Yo. Quick question, I guess... Was anyone here ever in a different world from their home before they came here? Or an alternate version of their world or anything like that.

[He starts to think that that might be a bit of a giveaway.] Sorry if someone's asked that before. Guess I'm wondering if anyone figured anything out about traveling between dimensions or whatever before they came here.

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[And, no longer content to sit in his house on a day like this, still looking for some kind of hint or anything like that, he can be found in the library, pulling down book by book methodically and... not reading them, just flipping through them very quickly, apparently looking for something.

Or, afterwards, trudging aimlessly through the plaza with a discontent expression.]

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[stilldontgotit.livejournal.com]

I've been to plenty of worlds. It's not that strange where I'm from.

voice

[menial]

So how's it work for you? Do you just randomly show up in them, too?

voice

[stilldontgotit.livejournal.com]

Only if your world gets swallowed by darkness. Most people use Gummi Ships or dark corridors to get around.

voice

[menial]

['Gummi Ships? If I had to travel between dimensions, I would like something a little more solid-sounding than what sounds like a tiny colored snack.']

Darkness...? How does darkness allow you to travel around, exactly?

voice

[stilldontgotit.livejournal.com]

First thing you need to know is that darkness is powerful where I'm from. So powerful it can consume people, turning them into monsters called Heartless. It's not a matter of turning off the lights.

[A pause.]

Anyway, it can be used to create portals.

[menial]

...That's right, someone told me about 'Heartless.'

['And yet the process sounds all the more insanely incomprehensible every time I hear a new description.']

How can something like "darkness" be used, anyway?

[stilldontgotit.livejournal.com]

You have to tap into it, usually by giving in. There's darkness in most hearts, so it's just a matter of embracing it.

But it's pretty risky.

[Annnd... complicated for those from non-KH worlds, no doubt.]

It's probably easiest to think of it as magic.

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[neverplaysfair]

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What's the motivation for asking?

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[menial]

Guess I'd like to know more about why we can't get out of here.

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[neverplaysfair]

I'd venture it's a product of the world itself.

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[menial]

Right... But what is it? If someone could get out of their own world normally, what's stopping them here?

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[neverplaysfair]

Most people can climb stairs, but few can scale a steep wall. It's possible that something about this world just makes it harder to leave than most worlds are.

[menial]

Yeah. But that's what you'd hope, right? Then it's still possible. Just impractical.

[voice]

[sundead]

Nope.

[....then why are you even answering, Ayumu.]

[voice]

[menial]

How helpful of you, Aikawa.

[voice]

[sundead]

Are you having alternate universe problems?

[voice]

[menial]

It is not an entirely unknown thing, let's put it that way.

[voice]

[sundead]

What kind of trouble are we talking?

[voice]

[menial]

I suppose you would say that this may not be the first time something like being thrown into Luceti has happened to someone I know.

[Voice]

[magicalesbian.livejournal.com]

Traveling through worlds and dimensions, huh? I might know a thing or two about that.

You know. Since that's kind of what I do.

[Voice]

[menial]

Ah, right... You said something like that before, Hoshikyo-san. How does it work?

[Voice]

[magicalesbian.livejournal.com]

Well. If you're hoping for a technical explanation, you'll have to go somewhere else. The only way I can explain how it works is "magic".

But! Traveling to different worlds takes a lot of power. It's not like you can just fly through space until you find a planet with people on it. Since not every world is in the same universe.

[Voice]

[menial]

Right, so you said. I guess the question is, what's keeping you from leaving now?

[Voice]

[magicalesbian.livejournal.com]

That's what I'd like to know! Someone told me the Malnosso are supposed to be looking for a way to go back home, too. It wouldn't make much sense for them to be the ones suppressing my powers.

It's not like I'd say no if they asked me to help them go home.

[Voice]

[menial]

Is that so...?

But something's actively suppressing them, you think?