Night 1 | ~ Remember ~

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[There is a sleepy town cast in the soft orange light of the setting sun. It is built on hills, so the brick streets of the town rise and fall in great slopes in some areas and gently rolls in others. At the very top of the highest hill, there is a clock tower perched atop a train station. When a world is trapped within perpetual sunset like this one, keeping track of the time is difficult, and so that tower is of the utmost importance, the ticking of its clock the heartbeat of the town.

Wherever you are in the town, there's a young teenager dressed in a black coat. The hood is drawn up to where his or her face is mostly obscured. On top of the clock tower, he or she -- it's surprisingly difficult to tell -- the teenager is sitting on the ledge, holding a light blue ice cream bar in one hand, staring out at the town below. Elsewhere, s/he can be found wandering around, as if exploring the streets, or standing awkwardly along the building walls.]



[ooc: A list of canonical locations in town is here, if you want it! All of Twilight Town is there to visit (except for Yen Sid's tower, since Xion doesn't exactly know that place exists).]

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Leave them behind me...? [Xion frowns.] But... I can't. There's still something I have to do.

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No one chooses when they have to put aside that useless thinking.

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[Her hands clench at her sides.] It isn't useless.

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It is. No mortal being knows the time they'll have to leave it all.

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[Xion shakes her head vehemently.] That doesn't make it useless!

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What good does it serve you? What purpose?

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It's a part of me. Nothing will ever change that. It makes me who I am. Nothing like that will ever be useless.

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It is no part of you if it can be lost so easily. And it will be lost, in the end.

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It won't be lost. Even if the mind forgets, the heart will always remember!

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You're wrong. When humans die, everything is left behind. [She doesn't say this as taunting; it's simple, irreversible, fact.]

That's why the scrambling of this life is useless.

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[Xion is shaking her head again.] No... You're the one who's wrong.

Scrambling? What are you talking about?

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I'm the one each person comes to in the end, to lose it all. Memories, relationships, deeds, fame.

[Don't remain ignorant, human.]

All are useless, yet men scramble to amass them.

asdklfj sorry for the delay ;; I lost the tag notifs

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It's never useless. We'd never have them if they were useless. They make up who we are... Our friends and our memories are a part of who we are. Even if you take away the memory, the imprint never goes away.

no worries <3

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[This is true; it's what draws lovers and friends to each other all over again even without those memories at all.

Lethe, however, has not experienced this; or chooses to ignore it.]

Humans have many useless things.

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[Xion shakes her head again.] No... Not when it comes to who they are, what's a part of them. And even material things can be important to who they are. [like the Keyblade]

I don't think you know as much about people as you say.

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Can those things be part of them once they don't exist at all?

[It's not wrong to be stubborn about it; but by her very place in the order of the galaxy, she knows better.]

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Those things will never stop existing!

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They stop at my river. Every person crosses, and when they do, those meaningless things are left behind.

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That doesn't mean they stop existing!

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The only thing that continues to exist is our powers.

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You're wrong.

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[She smiles, but it's a cold, distant smile.]

Say that as long as you like, until you learn for yourself.

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[Xion just shakes her head.]

No. You're the one who has a lot to learn.

[She's going to open a corridor of darkness. She's... done with this conversation.]