{6th Key; Voice}

[keybearing]

[Sora's either taken a bit to click that he has a new ability. Or he just hadn't said anything about it yet exactly. Which is why he speaks up now. After a longer than usual absence on his end at least, from the network with the bracelets in him piping up to say something.]

Hey guys! Ah, I think I figured a new power again? That's kinda cool? It's...um. I need to bleed to do it though. I think it sort of gives the other person like a boost to get stronger? Or something like that? I bet that'll definitely come in handy!

[He probably discovered this while training in sparring with one of his friends accidentally or something. And yes he did say that was kinda cool. At the cost of weakening himself to aid his friends, of course.....because that is just how Sora rolls. For all that his friends worry about how reckless he can be and how sacrificing he can be if he sees someone else in trouble.]

Oh! Also! I know we've been here a while so most of us have probably had a birthday or have one coming up, right? So everybody knows they gotta have a party with cake and presents and all? I guess I kinda got distracted the other month from having mine...but I'm sixteen now!

[And....totally ignoring that chances are he is not gonna be celebrating that with his friends back home. Actually. Yes. Yes he is. Which is probably at least in part why he never said anything in March, but still. Clearly that he is sixteen now is the important news, guys! Belatedly. Sora just doing his part to cheer everyone up and terrify and worry them all at once of course.]

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[keybearing]

I do? How?

[Because he is a bleeding heart willing to jump into most anything if he can help someone......and is the least subtle about it, maybe. Probably.]

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[trafficreport]

talk a lot about helping people.
not a lot about helping yourself.

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[keybearing]

Eheh. Yeah. I've been told that. To be more careful and think about myself more.

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[trafficreport]

ever thought of listening?

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[keybearing]

I do try? It's just. You know. Things happen. Or I kinda just jump in without thinking to try help somehow.

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[trafficreport]

knew a lot of people like that.
tended to end up dead.

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[keybearing]

I....er..well. Yeah. I guess.

[Actually with the cave here. And...certain events back home. Yeah. He's. Not wrong in that.]

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[trafficreport]

doesn't seem like that stops you.

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[keybearing]

It hasn't yet. No. But I know that's....I've been lucky there.

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[trafficreport]

if you've lasted this long.
i'd say yeah.

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[keybearing]

I mean I died with the whole cave thing but. I wasn't the only one.

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[trafficreport]

a lot of us did.

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[keybearing]

Yeah, it wasn't just me. So I dunno that that in the cave should really count? I just wanted to help when I heard people were trapped in there.

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[trafficreport]

lot of us did.
not what the majority wanted.

[Not that he's bitter. Why would anyone be bitter about that.]

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[keybearing]

No. It wasn't. We would have probably handled things differently if we knew what was going on, why they were in that cave in the first place.

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[trafficreport]

we got a second chance.
the orcs didn't.

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[keybearing]

Yeah. I still feel bad about that. That they didn't get brought back like we did.

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[trafficreport]

we shouldn't've left them there.

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[keybearing]

I didn't want to either. At least now we're aware of it though? I'm not sure if now we're back and know about it if we might be able to figure a cure or something, a vaccine.

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[trafficreport]

not sure.
would have helped to keep them alive for that.

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[keybearing]

I dunno if that we were infected means we might be able to help somehow or if that might have been...negated? With being brought back and we were fine?

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[trafficreport]

don't know.
haven't felt the sickness since.

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[keybearing]

I haven't either. I'm not sure if any of the others have either, since we got back.

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[trafficreport]

good.
otherwise that'd make it all for nothing.

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[keybearing]

If we were still sick and then came back and spread it, yeah. It would. I've been to lots of different worlds and haven't yet come across illnesses like that before.