risingwinds | Twenty-Seventh Shooting Star

[It's been about four months now since he had his talk with Lea. Most of that time he's spent trying to keep his spirits high. Socializing with friends, going on with his day-to-day routines.

But a recent talk with Masaomi and the whole lantern ceremony a few weeks back smacked him in the face and brought those words back into the forefront of his mind. The fact is, his future's far from pleasant. All signs point to one massive failure for him and his friends.

So here he is, journal in his lap. Maybe it's time to finally air those thoughts.]

So, um... I know at least a couple of you guys have bumped into people from the past or the future, but have you ever been hit with some really bad news? Like, say you had this goal to save a friend. Keep 'em from losing themselves, but it turns out you failed. That friend doesn't just lose themselves: they become somebody else's vessel.

If something like that did happen, what'd you do? 'Cause for me, knowing really hasn't helped. I'm stuck with the fact that I couldn't save my two best friends, and when I get back, I'll probably forget that I ever found out.

I just hate feeling so helpless.

[There, he got that off his chest. That's the first step.]

But it got me thinking about something else, too. Say we find a way to get back home without forgetting everything. Do you think it'd be wrong to try and change that future? Because I feel like I should so that my friends don't end up suffering, but doing something like that means changing the futures for everyone else, doesn't it? And I dunno if that's really fair.

[Sigh. What a mess.]

I dunno. It's all way too complicated. Makes me wish they were here now so I could ask them about it.

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Being in Luceti is like a long, long practice in figuring out how to get over a feeling of walking in place.

[Even if his voice is wry, Leon is quick to sigh and continue talking.]

Even with the bad news and knowing how this place is, it's good that you're still thinking of "what ifs," Ven. Just because it's complicated doesn't mean you should shrug it off, right?

Exactly. I don't wanna lose hope. Maybe this is too sentimental, but I'd like to think there's a way to make things better for everyone. I just don't know where I'd start.

[It's a tough call. The future's one of those things that's just penciled in in theory. Ven knows the outcome, but if he could just get to Terra again. Warn him. Wouldn't that make things better?]

It'd help if we knew what made people forget. That could make a huge difference.

It could be a number of things, especially knowing that shifts are so mysterious and capable of random things. We could very well be under a shift just being here that allows us to remember, and when we get pulled out of this world, that memory shift disappears and all our memories with it. Or it could be something entirely unrelated to shifts and more related to dimensional differences between worlds.

[He doesn't mean to vocally shrug at Ven's contemplating, but there really were too many variables they weren't allowed to understand.]

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