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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.]

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[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?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Both worlds are safe. That's all that matters, now we just have to figure out how to get back.

[knightofratatosk]

Yeah, that's the hard part.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Were you away from home before this, too?

[knightofratatosk]

I was on a journey to hatch all of the Centurion cores so that Ratatosk could be reawakened, but I don't think that's quite the same as being in a different world. I mean, at least I was still in my own world, even if I was going places I'd never been before.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

The Digital World was kind of like a parallel of Earth, but we couldn't get back until we defeated everybody who was threatening it.

...what's Ratatosk?

[knightofratatosk]

He's a summon spirit and the guardian of the old World Tree. If he's asleep, all the mana in our world gets out of balance and bad things start happening, like strange weather patterns and stuff like that.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

So the whole world's affected by if he's asleep or not? That sounds pretty weird to me.

[knightofratatosk]

I guess it is kind of strange when you think about it...

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

I've heard a lot of strange things from people here though.

[knightofratatosk]

Yeah, like spaceships, or those weird microwave boxes that cook food.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Microwaves aren't that weird, but Haruki talks about spaceships all the time though.

[knightofratatosk]

He has a spaceship too?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Don't think so, but he talks about aliens a lot.

[knightofratatosk]

... he's kind of weird sometimes. Um, don't tell him I said that, though.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

I won't. He is sort of weird, but he's also really cool.

[knightofratatosk]

I've only talked with him once or twice, but-- [sneeze!]