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( For those with whom he has already spoken in his previous stay he looks exactly the same, except for a faint blackish color under his eyes, and a somewhat tired expression. No one would say he is a year older, considering that he's only been gone a few days. A pinkish ball with green ears is resting on his head; his komory bat napping, embracing itself with its wings. )

This is the first time that I do one of these for everyone and, to be honest, I'm unsure of what to say.

( There are a few seconds of silence, only broken by his sigh as he brushes his bangs backwards. Not that it does much, since soon his forehead is covered once again. )

I'm not quite sure how much time has passed here since the last time I was around, but it has been... quite a bit for me. I have missed the few people I talked with the last time. I tried to find you all but seems something happened while I was away? Is everyone okay?

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[madcuriosity]

[Sorry, Riku, Alice is more or less focusing on the cute little bat.] HE'S ADORABLE! I've never seen a bat like that before! He's so colorful!

You could talk about your cute little bat friend, sir! Oh! But, if this is your first time, then please let me introduce myself, my name is Alice, Alice Liddell!

[miragesplitkey]

About my bat? ( He didn't think his companion would call so much the attention. But, once again, he was just too used to it and all the colorful dream eaters. ) Alice... It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Riku, and this guy is-- Now that I think about it, I never gave him a proper name other than Komory Bat. Not a good name for a friend, I guess.

( Meanwhile the bat only shirps on his sleep, as if trying to be part of the conversation. )

[madcuriosity]

Oh! Are you Sora's Riku? How do you do, Mr. Riku? We should name your bat!

[miragesplitkey]

Well, I know a Sora but I don't know if that makes me "Sora's Riku" ( That's supposed to be a joke, but he is so tired that doesn't sound like one. ) And while I agree that this guy should have a name, please, just Riku. "Mr" makes me feel older than I am. So... how should we name you

( He pokes the bat, who doesn't react at all this time )

[madcuriosity]

Well, there aren't any other Sora's here. Does your Sora have brown spikey hair, very bright blue eyes, and always wants to help everyone?

We could name him after a fruit or flower! He's just as colorful.

[miragesplitkey]

Yep, that's my Sora.

A fruit or a flower... A big yellow and fluffy ball. Oh, I know! Leontodon, or just Leon. It sounds better than dandelion, the first flower that comes to mind with that description. ( He doesn't have into account that certain Leon back home may not like that. )

[madcuriosity]

I thought as much.

Well let's see, the dandelion has several meanings! It can mean healing from emotional pain and physical pain, it can mean warm as the sun, or that your wish came true!

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[keybearing]

Riku? Riku! I wondered where you were when we couldn't find you.....!

[Of course Sora has thus found he Does Not Like being on the other end of that. He then tilts his head as more of what Riku says starts to sink in.]

Been quite a bit? Ah, it'll probably be easier if I come over.

[Sora doesn't think anything of basically inviting himself to see Riku. They basically lived at each other's houses growing up and all anyway.]

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[miragesplitkey]

So-Sora?!

( Don't mind his surprise, his wide eyes nor how he is speechless for long seconds. Seeing the reason of his weird dreams, of his bad rest... Alive, and safe? Just be glad he can't pull a Sora and glomp him. )

So you have been here all this time?! Y-you... Yeah. I guess you could come over if I had a place to stay? Right now I'm just in the middle of the street.

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[keybearing]

You can come to my room then, you know where it is.

[Sora offers instead, without thinking on how tidy his room might be. He's just ecstatic to see Riku again after having been worried what happened to his best friend. He's just keen to get to see him and make sure Riku is alright, unaware Riku on his end has been searching for him for a year.]

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[miragesplitkey]

( And you don't have to tell him twice; there are no more replies from him.

But this time he does as he is told, unlike the last time that he just vanished on his way to Sora's room. If Sora pays attention, he may heard the sound of something heavy falling to the ground accompanied by something "knocking" on his door; Riku stumbling over his own foot and falling as long as he is to the ground, making the bat roll on the floor until it hit the door. He is never so clumsy, and he even tries to get up quickly... But the year looking for him, all the weird dreams, just makes him too eager. )

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[keybearing]

[Sora blinks at the thud, the knock at the door and goes to open it. Assuming it was Riku but still basically lighting up when he sees the other older teen. He doesn't immediately notice how Riku is a little taller now in comparison. He grins and gestures for Riku to come in, stepping aside at the door to give him space to enter.]

Riku!

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[miragesplitkey]

( Aquamarine looks for blue as soon as the door open, standing up on an attempt to do as if nothing happened. He can't help it, but the moment he hears his name his feet move fast, wrapping his arms around Sora. He isn't crying, but he is shaking. It's kind of hard to believe that, after all, he finally found his best friend. )

You have no idea of-- ( And then, silence as he takes a step back, releasing him. ) We have a lot to talk about.

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[mindseer]

[She decided to go with Audio. Sure, she could subject him to her text, and it'd be funny, but she wasn't in the mood.]

Oh hey! It's Sora's friend, Riku right?
Hehehehe, doing ok.
You go somewhere?

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[miragesplitkey]

( So he goes with audio too, to don't feel weird. )

Yeah, I'm Riku. And you are the mo-... moi-... Whatever the name was! Naminé's friend, right?
I'm not going anywhere, or I think so. I just got back to Asgard after a year or so back home.
I'm kinda lost to what happened here.

[mindseer]

haha, you can call us friends. It works. I know you know what I mean.

[She giggled. It was awkward enough to explain after all. Friend worked for humans when it came to Naminé, she figured.]

Time didn't pass quite as much as that. Just a couple months. After you disappeared, we mopped up that fight and the things with the little people underground, and it was kind of quiet. We've been talking about laws and getting jobs set up for everyone...

...

Oh, and some orcs lied to us and got a few of us killed with a horrible death plague in a magic cave and now my blood does weird stuff. But that's not important at the moment.

[She did that last part on purpose, Riku. Definitely.]

[miragesplitkey]

A couple months? Oh, wait- Maybe I haven't been absent all this time. I remember the laws and getting a job. A guard city I think it was- I should ask what it was again. ( Of course he would forget some stuff after a whole year worried about other stuff back home. )

( However, he seems to have ignored the part about her blood doing weird stuff, his attention fully at the death part. )

You died?! How's that-- Nevermind. How are you now?

[mindseer]

Hmmm, no. In that case you've maybe been gone a month. You'd be with Heimdall if you were doing town guard work. Yep. You can probably check in with the city watch. They're always going to be doing stuff.

Don't worry. It's fuzzy now, but it should make sense again soon probably. [She grinned cheerfully as she said it.]

Uh... kiiiiinda? I think Sigyn sort of mercy killed us and brought us right back. I'm mostly ok, other than the weird blood thingee. And that's just odd.

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( All he can do is tilt his head, hearing her explanation. )

It should have been really bad if it was because of that. I'm sorry you had to go through that, but how odd is your blood? Changes its color?

better late than never? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[vagabone]

Oh! Is that an alebrije? Nice! I hadn't seen any of those here before!

[...Priorities, skeleman.]

Late? What's that? Is edible?

[miragesplitkey]

Ale- What? I don't know what you mean, but I'm pretty sure that... My bat isn't one. I'm sorry.

( He tried. He never heard that word before. )

can you kill it

[vagabone]

Oh, right, right, sorry. Another word for spirit guide. Ours are always colorful like that. It's cute, whatever it is!

[miragesplitkey]

Spirit guide... Sounds cute. At least they don't look scary. This little guy is a Spirit Dream Eater. Back home he eats the nightmares and fights by my side in the Realm of Sleep. Here? A companion.

[vagabone]

Depends on how big they are. I'd say some of them qualify as scary. [Yes, he's thinking of a certain bus-sized flying jaguar. What else??]

...Ah, that's a strange way to describe dreams. [Lost him there, buddy.]

[miragesplitkey]

Scary? ( He blinks repeatedly before laugh. ) It's funny enough that a talking skeleton says that.

And I didn't describe dreams. Just- if you have a nightmare, my friend here will eat it away from you. Well, back home. Here he is just a lazy and colorful bat.