ic contact;

[coexistent]

"I'm not around, so... leave a message, I guess."

Comments

[coexistent]

Do you really think they're going to do anything that's going to help us in the end? All they ever do is hurt other people.

[immobileyes]

... You can't change anything if you're dead.

[ But that's all she'll say, heaving a sigh. ]

[coexistent]

[roxas falls quiet too, honestly unsure of how to respond to that.]

[immobileyes]

[ There probably isn't a good way to respond to that, anyway, and Mary's quiet for a good few minutes as she sinks into her own thoughts, before-- ]

Do you... want to go back to your own world?

[coexistent]

...I don't have anything to go back to. I don't... have a world that's my own.

[so. no, not really.]

[immobileyes]

Then... what do you want to do?

[ He doesn't want to stay here, does he? ]

[coexistent]

...Go back with you.

[it's really the only idea he's even had up to this point. what else can he do, honestly? if he goes back where he "belongs," he's not even going to exist anymore.

(though he doesn't tell mary that, because it seems like a terrible idea.)]

If that's okay, I mean.

[immobileyes]

[ Yeah, please never tell Mary that, she'd throw a fit. For now, she's glancing at him, caught off-guard but not visibly dismayed.

Go back with her? She's not sure how that works, how she'd be able to explain Roxas to the rest of her friends or if they'd even believe her-- but more importantly, if he comes home with her, that means she never has to say goodbye to him. ]

... I want that, too.

[ a pause, before she adds: ] I want that a lot.

[coexistent]

Yeah. It... would be nice, wouldn't it?

[really and truly.]

I could do it even if I went back to where I came from before... but I have to know how to get there. To your world, I don't know the way since I've never been there.

[immobileyes]

So that's why you'd have to come with me... I don't know the way to my world, either.

[ She's never really thought about it?? ]

[coexistent]

...I'm going to try, no matter what. Even if there's no way to go back like that.

[he'll try to find a way to her world with his own abilities, even if it's risky.]

[immobileyes]

I think if it's you... even if there wasn't a way for something to happen, you'd make one.

[ That's just how Roxas is. ]