backdated to mid-morning yesterday, oops!

[fading]

[if anyone has attempted to contact Nami to wish him a Merry Christmas, they'll have been informed that the number is currently not in service. this might have something to do with the fact that, inside Nami's trashed apartment, his phone is sitting in a puddle of paintwater, sparking. Nami's nowhere to be found!


there's a frantic Kai calling for Nami as he makes his way through the park. he can feel that Nami's still in the dressing room, but there's a wall between their connection so solid he can't sense anything other than that.]



(ooc: Nami got a heart for Christmas. unfortunately, he's had a lot of negativity 'bottled up' so to speak, and the sudden onslaught of proper emotion wasn't taken well. he's in hiding, having taken a portal straight from his apartment! responses will be from Kai, at least at first, despite the fact that the post is from Nami.)

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[dawnrise]

Because you're my friend, and I care about you, and if there's anything I can do to help you through this I want to be here so I can.

[fading]

[he's quiet again, shifting against her as he tries to gather his thoughts.]

I don't want to go back yet.

[dawnrise]

You don't have to. Not yet.

[Not at this moment, anyway. In the next couple of hours, maybe.]

[fading]

I don't want to stay here either.

[but he doesn't know where to go. ;; take him somewhere, Riku. he'll open the portal for you!!]

[dawnrise]

[She's quiet as she considers it, then leans back to look up at the sky.]

The woods? The ocean? Pick a world and we'll go. A place where we don't have any attachments.

[fading]

I don't know what to pick, Riku. I can't think clearly.

[dawnrise]

...let's go to the woods between here and Halloween Town.

[fading]

Alright.

[he'll pull away from her slowly so he can stand. he looks shaky and miserable and emotionally exhausted, but that's not stopping him from calling up a portal. it doesn't seem to be paining him the way it did Riku though.]

[dawnrise]

[Riku looks alarmed, and straightens up to put a hand on his arm in warning.]

You don't need to be doing that. Not yet.

[fading]

[he looks at her in surprise, but the portal halts in forming. it's just a little lump of darkness on the ground at the moment.]

...How do you think I got here?

[dawnrise]

[She frowns, then shakes her head.]

The same way I did. That doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

[fading]

Fine.

[he frowns as well, and lets the darkness disperse. they're taking the long way, then.]

[dawnrise]

[Maybe it will do some good. She drops her hand down and offers it for him to take, but she won't be offended if he refuses.]

[fading]

[are you kidding, he's definitely not refusing that contact. in fact, she'll even get a tiny little halfhearted smile for it.]

[dawnrise]

[She smiles back at him, a real smile, just small. If he'll let her, she'll start leading them off.]

[fading]

[he'll follow obediently, feeling a little better now that he's had that cry and is in the presence of a friend.]

[dawnrise]

[She hopes it does help. After they start walking, she looks up at the sky again, then back to him.]

I'm going to call Kai and let him know I found you so he's not still out there looking.

[Yes, still.]

Do you want me to let him know what's going on?

[fading]

[he cringes guiltily at the mention of Kai and considers.]

I guess.

[dawnrise]

[She caught that, and it makes her hesitate to reach for her phone.]

...do you want to talk to him?

[fading]

...not yet. I'll talk to him when we go back.

[so... in a few hours, probably!]

[dawnrise]

Alright.

[She nods, because that's fine, and then pulls out her phone to call him herself.]

[seasides]

[and of course he answers immediately, sounding out of breath.]

Did you find him?

[dawnrise]

I found him. He's safe.

[She looks at Nami, now worried about Kai as well as him.]

[seasides]

[he exhales shakily, but sounds relieved when he speaks again.]

Good. What happened?

[dawnrise]

[She's quiet, only the sound of her breathing as she considers what to tell him. There really only is one thing, though.]

...Nami has a heart.