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

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

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

['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?

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.

...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?

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.

Yeah, I think I'll leave my heart a nice red color as long as I have a choice in the matter.

So it's just magic? That you can't use here?

It works here. Just can't use it to get out of this world.

But making portals to areas in the enclosure? It's doable.

So... their magic is just more powerful?

Powerful enough to keep us stuck here, if you mean the Malnosso.

Yeah, I do. On the other hand, some people have left, right? And do we really know whether or not it was by their will?

I've gone home before, and it wasn't by choice. The way I see it, either the Malnosso meant to do it, or it's a fluke that happens sometimes.

Edited 2011-12-28 04:52 (UTC)

Do you happen to know how many people haven't ever come back, though? Is it a lot or a little?

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