Memory Cave

[voidtreckermods]

After the passengers see a glimpse of a life that is not their own they appear in a cave. It is light, a strange moss glowing on the walls and ceiling illuminates the cave nicely and it is large enough for them to pace around in without trouble.

They are not alone. In the cave with them is another voidtrecker. Maybe someone they know well, maybe someone they have only seen in the aisles of the train. But they are together in this cave together.

The cave has no exit, at least not yet. They know that it will, eventually. When the time is right.

But for that time to come, they first must talk...

(OOC: For reference: memories!)

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[longforgottenpromise]

He doesn't take her hand, just leaving his hand hovering, as if she were a frightened horse he was trying to calm.

He doesn't have an answer, he has no idea why they are here, what it means or why they are seeing each others lives.

"I don't know." His answer was honest at least.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Is Naminé doing this?" she asked quietly. She hadn't seen the other girl in quite some time, but Xion didn't know anyone else who could give memories from one person to another. And the door had appeared last time when she had mentioned her...

[longforgottenpromise]

"I don't think so... She's not here..."

Hadn't been on the train for a while and nothing like this had happened before. There had been the dreams but that seemed to have a different explanation.

"It's happening to a lot of people..."

[nobodys_puppet]

"It is?"

[longforgottenpromise]

"Yes." He sounds surprised, but he tries to keep any judgement out of his voice.

She reminds him of himself. Not now. But before. When he was on earth. Just... existing. Not paying attention. His thoughts turned so inward that he barely interacted with the world at all. It was too dangerous, he couldn't care, couldn't get close to anyone. They would only be hurt because of him.

"That's why everyone was on the mountain."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Not just to watch the sunset?"

[longforgottenpromise]

He shook his head, it hadn't been to just watch the sunset at all. Even if the sunset had been very pretty.

"No it seems there is something about this island, it has... shared our memories. I don't know why."

But for some reason he and Xion had been made privy to parts of each others lives.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Are... we going to become one person?" she asked quietly. Was this version of her... made of him?

[longforgottenpromise]

"One person?" That... Sounded worrying. He shook his head. "I don't... I don't think so but I don't know..."

"I don't know how that could happen."

[nobodys_puppet]

"It's happened before," she said with a small shrug.

[longforgottenpromise]

"Has it?"

He shifted so he was sitting, he feels calmer this time. This was... strange but clearly was something they couldn't fix, something that they couldn't change. They just had to... see it to the end.

"Was that... with Sora and Roxas?"

He doesn't really understand, but he is trying to. To find the balance between not being nosy and piecing together what she has told him.

[nobodys_puppet]

She nodded. "We were supposed to be part of him, and so we had to go back," she said, simply, quietly.

[longforgottenpromise]

"The people we just saw... were they the ones who told you that?"

The one's who had wished to destroy her, were they part of this? He keeps his voice soft, gentle. Still trying to understand.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Saïx?" she shook her head. "They created me to use me. But I wasn't good enough. They didn't want me to go back, they wanted me destroyed. Me or Roxas...."

[longforgottenpromise]

"Oh." He looked down, "I'm sorry..."

It was terrible that they had hurt her like that, terrible that they wanted to destroy her. No one should be treated like that, destroyed, because they weren't good enough.

He reached towards her again, this time touching her hand outright unless she pulled away.

[nobodys_puppet]

She didn't, but she did look at him. "Why?"

He hadn't done anything to her, or messed up, so why would he be sorry?

[longforgottenpromise]

"Why?" He echoed, looking at her in confusion. Why what?

Why was he sorry?

"I am sorry that you were hurt, it is sad that such a thing happened to you."

[nobodys_puppet]

"But you didn't cause me to hurt, did you?"

[longforgottenpromise]

"No I didn't."

He is quick to confirm that, because he has... no idea what she understands. He doesn't want her to be afraid.

[nobodys_puppet]

"Then why?" She was so confused.

[longforgottenpromise]

He looked at her sadly. It is difficult to talk to her, difficult to answer her questions when he doesn't even always have answers. "I am a kirin." He said after a moment.

"We will always feel pain, when we see others hurting."

[nobodys_puppet]

"Then... aren't I the one hurting you?" She didn't know what a Kirin was, but she could ask that later.

[longforgottenpromise]

"No." He shook his head, "Please do not think that. You are the one who was hurt, you did not cause me pain."

[nobodys_puppet]

"But you said that you feel pain because you see me in pain," she pointed out. "If I wasn't here... you wouldn't be hurting."

That... could mean so more than just this moment, given her insane guilt complex.

[longforgottenpromise]

"That's not true." He said softly, but firmly. "You are not the cause of this pain. Please do not think that."