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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Believe me, that's what I'm hoping for. I do wanna make the future better, and I'd like to think it's still possible. We just gotta find a way. Maybe there's some kinda Shifting technology that'll help us out.

[It's really hard to say. Ven just can't accept defeat. And wasn't there that shift that sent people to other worlds once?]

Of course there's gonna be something. I don't get how it all works, but there was that experiment a long time back that sent people home and to other places. That ended up causing lots of errors in people though or something.

[But surely the technology they used to pull off that experiment in the first place must have been improved on since then. It's been ages.]

But it does prove that they can do it! All they'd really have to do is fix a few bugs...

[He lets out an awkward laugh.]

Man, why didn't I think of that before?

It's fine, with how much goes on here it gets hard to remember every single thing that's happened. And it's not like we've heard anything about getting home since that one time anyway.

[Maybe there was more wrong with it than just a few bugs and that's why it has been mentioned since then? He has no idea.]

You know, I wonder why that is, anyway. You'd think that they'd wanna try it again. Tweak the technology so they can get it right.

Unless they don't really want a way outta here, but I dunno. I don't wanna get all pessimistic about it.

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