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[knightofratatosk]

[It may be a rainy day today, but the rain hasn't stopped Emil from going outside anyway. In fact, he doesn't seem like he even notices it as he sits on a large rock near the bridge by the clinic, knees drawn up to his chest, just sort of staring at the water. He's motionless except for when he occasionally reaches down to pick up a stone from the riverbank and throw it in, so it's easy to miss him sitting there.

Horatio, Luke, Faize, and now Frederic... and that's just the people whose disappearances he learned of during the past month. At this rate it's hard for him to keep from feeling that the Malnosso are somehow punishing him by taking his friends away-- why else would they take people who had promised to be there for him? And on top of that, people have been killed and injured, too...

Right now more than ever, Emil just wants to go home to Richter, Marta and Tenebrae, even if he doesn't know what waits for him there. Surely it's better than this.]

Comments

[knightofratatosk]

But what if you set the kitchen on fire or something? Those appliance things are pretty scary...

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

I used to cook at home all the time. And I think they're awesome, I've missed them since being in the Digital World and then getting stuck here without them.

[knightofratatosk]

We didn't have anything like them back in my world. I mean, we had stoves, but they ran on firewood, not gas or electricity.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

We used a lot of firewood in the Digiworld. But having electricity's pretty awesome, isn't it? It makes everything a lot faster.

[knightofratatosk]

Or makes things explode if you aren't careful.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

I've gotten better at not making stuff explode since Yamato left.

[knightofratatosk]

Yamato?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He's one of my best friends from home. He was here for a long time, but they sent him home in December or something.

[knightofratatosk]

They've been sending a lot of people home lately... I wonder why that is. I don't remember it being this bad a while ago...

[That... happens to be why he's out here in the rain in the first place, but he's not going to say that.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

It started happening a lot around September or October. I've been trying to figure out what it is, but Koushiro's usually the one with all of the theories. He was sent back too though. [Probably for the best, since Taichi would be a little confused.]

[knightofratatosk]

They've sent three people from my world home since October, and a whole bunch of my other friends. Maybe I really am bad luck.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

They keep sending home my friends too. I keep thinking they'll come back, but they haven't yet. It's the main problem with this place, isn't it?

[knightofratatosk]

Yeah. You never know who is going to get sent home, or if someone is ever going to come back if they do get sent home.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Man, this sucks. I just hope they're actually home and not back in the Digital World or something, or wherever else they could be sent.

[knightofratatosk]

I thought I was the only one who worried about that-- everyone else seems so convinced that people really are sent back to their worlds, but... how can we know for sure?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

We don't know. Maybe I just think about it just because we weren't even home before we came here.

[knightofratatosk]

If you weren't at home, where were you?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

The Digital World. We had to be there for a really long time.

[knightofratatosk]

Why were you there in the first place? Were they keeping you prisoner there too?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Sorta. We had to save the world, we were the only ones who could.

[knightofratatosk]

Save the world...

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

That's what we were supposed to do.

[knightofratatosk]

Did you manage to save it before you were brought here?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

That's the last thing we did...we were on our way home before I got sent here.

[knightofratatosk]

That's good, then... at least you know that your world is safe now, right?