784 days

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

... Oh. Here again.

[Aerith certainly remembers the dressing room, but a lot has changed over the past two years. too much for her to really recall where her old haunts were. good thing there's a myriad of familiar faces she can approach!]

Does anyone remember the way to the garden?

[ooc; oh mah god old muse is old. sorry if I'm rusty.]

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[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

Miss Aerith?

[Man, he remembers her from...way back.]

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

... Hello, Ienzo. You're still here?

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

Indeed I am.

[Aerith might notice that he's grown a little bit since then. After all, it's been a veeery long time.]

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

It seems the dressing room's grown along with you. I hardly recognize this place anymore.

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

Well, the same old locations are still present. It's simply a matter of finding them nowadays.

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

I see. I don't suppose you could show me the way to the garden, then?

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

With pleasure.

[He'll even turn in its general direction.]

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[she is, of course, going to grill him as they walk along.]

How have things been here, Ienzo? Have you found someone nice?

[radiantprodigy.livejournal.com]

You're quite welcome.

[...Ah. And of course she'd ask. He laughs quietly, but... yeah. He nods.]

Surprisingly, yes.

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

Really? Who, if I may ask?

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

*Boy does Sora have a fondness for Aeriths. He's wandering the hallway with a book on chocobos and a cookbook (though neither are related omg ;; He does smile when he sees her, a very Sora sort of smile.)

Aerith?

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

Hm?

[she turns, and upon seeing him, returns that smile two-fold.]

Oh! Hello, Sora.

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

*This Sora's around nineteen years old, but still quite short, so he's looking up at you.*

I don't think I've seen you before, but then I haven't met an Aerith yet.

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

I don't believe I've seen you before, either. You're much taller than the Sora I know.

[her gaze zeros in on the books in his hands, and she gives him a quizzical look.]

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

*He puffs up like crazy at that, since his 64 inch height is quite unremarkable and the source of many jokes directed at him. He looks at the books and flails at what it might look like to a stranger.*

Uhm! I'm not cooking a chocobo I promise! My uh, son. He's got a little chocobo who is sick and we were trying to figure out what we should do to make him more comfortable. And I'm cooking lasagna tonight.

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

Ah. May I help you? I don't have much experience with chocobos, but I'd like to help if I could.

[and then her eyebrow quirks slightly, though it's more out of surprise.]

You have a son? Sora!

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

Of course! I'm sure Sorabug would love some help. He loves new friends.

*And he's holding his hands up, flailing.*

It's not like you think... ! When my boyfriend and I got here, there was... a little Sora without any parents. He was only six, so we sort of adopted him. He's been with up for almost two years now.

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

A little Sora? I remember one here two years ago.. He's still here?

[she's curious about the boyfriend part, too, but she'll put that question off for later.]

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

... he left for a little while to go home, but he came back. With chickenpox.

*Some of the itchiest days of this Sora's life ;;*

He's still here. But we're taking great care of him. We've... even built our room sort of like a house. Trying to make things as normal as possible for him.

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

... I'm not surprised. I always had a feeling you would make a good father, Sora.

[she smiles slightly.]

I'm glad he has someone like you here to protect him. It's dangerous here.

[in fact, now that Aerith thinks about it, her last memory of the kid was when he first lost his Heart.]

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

*Sora flushes pink, but smiles.*

Y-yeah. Well, we make sure he does his lessons and drinks plenty of milk and stuff too. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be. And Bawk's gotten huge!

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

You guys sound very happy. So it's you, Sora, and..?

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

Sorabug, me and Ri.

[haveacuraga.livejournal.com]

Riku?

[endlessxsky.livejournal.com]

No, just Ri. Looks like a Riku though.

*He's a Riku replica, technically. Sora won't introduce him as one though, because Ri is as Real as anyone else.*