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✿ Ninth Bud [strange scribbles/voice]

[With a frustrated sigh, Kaori abandons the poor attempt at communication by scratching the surface of the pen across the whole page, eventually ripping it out. It was stupid to think that just because she was able to write perfectly fine a week ago, she would be able to for a while now that she was back to normal. Things didn't work that way.

So much for trying to be anonymous about this and avoiding talking to people more than she has to, but she still wanted answers to her question anyway. Pausing for a deep breath, she dives right in.]

Is anyone out there lucky enough to have their brother or sister here?

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Then why do they try to say otherwise instead of being honest with themselves?

... Nice to meet you, too, Mister Ace. [He certainly seemed more likeable than his brother already.]

... Do I have to come up with something to compare it to, then?

Oh yeah, what sort of thing, Kaori-chan?

Ah, you can just call me Ace. [....he kinda is.]

[Even though Martel is gone, he's...not all alone; he has to keep reminding himself of that. There's still someone who cares about him...]

I'm glad too. I don't know what I would do if you also left... [if you never came back, like he was beginning to fear. There's something he's been wondering for a little while too.]

You...

[Finally, eye contact. That relieves his worry, a little.] There is no need to apologize. Just try to keep yourself in the now, alright?

What happened, exactly? Who did this?

[Where can I find them so they never do it again?]

... Legato... [When had she ever spoken his name out loud?] He... he wanted to hurt Vash, but he didn't do anything... Then one day I guess he decided he... was tired of acting good anymore...

... I guess we just have a different idea entirely about which one hurts more.

....Vash? [The man with the squirt guns....?]

So he hurt you instead? [....He tries to keep a hold of his rage at the thought. It wasn't the time or place to be angry. It would just upset Kaori.

He'd find a way to make the man pay.]

He said he was tired of waiting... he wanted to hurt Mister Vash, and... and the best way to do that was to use someone Vash cares about...

Because of me, Vash had to hurt a lot...

It wasn't your fault, Kaori.... [He reaches out slowly, hoping to hug her but not wanting to startle her.]

It was this Legato's. no one should hurt you like he did.

[Kaori doesn't notice the gesture, not right now anyway. She's a little too caught up in trying to stay in the present and trying to remember all that Legato had said. The terror had been enough to distract her, and the pain afterward made it nearly impossible.]

He was talking about fate, if Vash had managed to change something that happened in their world, I guess... And he must've answered wrong, because... because he really started to make it hurt.

I couldn't control my own body, Freyjadour! [That feeling of violation is what's bringing the tears out now.]

[Frey decides to take the chance and wrap his arms around her, pulling her close as she cries. If she lets him, he'll be making soothing noises as he pets her hair.] It wasn't your fault... No one should ever have to go through that.

[no control..... what had he done?]

[Kaori clings on tightly to him, doing her best to try not to flinch as her body recalls the sensations of being twisted in ways that would deliberately cause pain, of blood vessels bursting and veins about to tear. That was nothing in comparison to what she had heard, though. How could she ever forget hearing Vash forced to break down and abandon his ideals so that he could get her away from Legato alive?]

Of course! Because my pain should be my burden and no one else's. They would feel the same helpless feeling you do when you want to help someone but can't.

[Kaori turns her face upward toward Mithos', able to tell that there was something more he wanted to say? Or maybe she was assuming things... it wouldn't hurt to ask, would it?]

What is it...?

.... Tch. [While she can't know for sure over the journals like this, the way he reasoned that made it seem human-like.]

Even if you suffer alone, how do you know that they really aren't?

Do you...ever wish you could leave and go back to your world?

[Did he imagine that or not?] One day, we'll see them again. [It bears repeating.] You, me, and everyone here.

[he'll continue to hold onto her, noticing her trouble but not letting go either.

He's not going anywhere, and she needs to know that.]

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... Sometimes. [Not that she loved the world outside of the realm the other Auria lived in, and though she was allowed to live amongst the others there, at best she was just tolerated and pitied for not being as 'pure' and therefore as content and forgiving as they were. But at least she had a sense of free will.]

It's... it's because people are nice here, and I can't tell if they're lying or not... It's confusing.

[Yes Kouki, believe that you imagined that or you may have to deal with a mouthful of snark.] I hope so... But sometimes I worry about if I'll ever see my family again even when I do go back.

Yeah... So how much more will we disagree on?

I can? But... you sound so much older than me.

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