cyclists | audience: naminé

It's not like it was your fault. You wouldn't blame me if it was the other way around, would you?

[It's funny now because that happens later. It's fine.]

[ god i hate you ]

... I know.

Then cheer up a little. [It's a joke, but...smile, Naminé. Things will be okay, and it still wasn't her fault.] ...you don't get to apologize for something that wasn't really your fault, okay?

... okay.

[ it's still hard to believe it but

she'll try. ]

Everybody else is going to forgive you too, you know. The corruption makes people say all kinds of crazy stuff, too. [...] And in a way, you were still kind of nice about it.

[Being mowed down by a gundam, apparently, is better than being yeeted into a volcano.]

... if it had been any other week, I would have immediately known it was me from the wheel, I think.

[ but that week had the toys, so she didn't think much of it right away except for a vague sense of unease. ]

You sure? [It's an idle question as he slowly chews on his pizza.] Xion wasn't sure it was her when it happened. She thought someone hurt her, and that was actually pretty possible, too. The thing about the corruption is that it's hard to predict.

... well, I can't be completely sure.

But all I would have had to do was check my house to see if the toy was there or not. Not that many people knew about it, and I didn't tell anyone where I put it.

That's a little telling then, yeah. [Ugh...stupid corruption.] I still don't get half the prizes you guys walked away with when you went through those places. Lune and I could never follow you there, so we always had to find out after it was over.

... I actually had a few that probably would have helped.

I assume the missing spot of fur on her was from the patch I received from Valvatorez. It looked about the same size.

You depowered her, yeah. [Which makes sense.] But she ripped it off of herself and left that bare spot. If she hadn't, the patch would've probably been found on her body and they might've blamed Valvatorez sooner.

Oh...

[ that's true, and since he was already responsible for one murder, the idea of him committing two wouldn't be that farfetched. ]

It was a pretty messy weekend. But it worked out the way it was supposed to, and all of you are safe now.

[But yeah. Oh, indeed.]

I know that you told me it was okay over here, but it was still a surprise seeing everything after I woke up.

What were you expecting? [It's a little funny but also yeah, he could see it being a bit of a shock.]

I'm not sure.

Not the village, I guess.

It's weird. Almost everything is exactly the same, except you can't leave. I wonder if these planes always existed together or if it was only formed when Lune and I decided we were going to stay.

It kind of seems like one of those things we won't find out about, doesn't it?

Add it to the list, I guess. I'm thinking maybe when this is all over I can actually learn more from the universe because the job will be done.

Do you think it'll still be willing to talk to you once it's all over...?

Pretty sure. It's bound to have a few things to say at the end of all of this, and then I can ask all of my questions it's been ignoring since the beginning.

It's never really a silent thing in the first place. Just purposefully annoying.

... what's it like? Talking to it?

It's weird...it doesn't ever really say words, but it delivers messages on scrolls. And sometimes it's like suddenly knowing an answer even if the words aren't said. Like I had the knowledge all along.

But it's frustrating when it goes silent.

... do you think it'll ever answer why it chose us in particular? Or why it had to be done this way?

Maybe. I have to wonder if it even knows itself. Maybe it's just as confused as we are.

But I have my own guesses for why it was us in the first place.

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