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[blue_wayfinder]

Characters: Aqua and whoever she runs into
Location: Special mention of the library, the super market, and the Outer Quarter, but feel free to catch her en route to any of these places or near Death City Heights!
Rating: PG
Time: February 19, all day
Description: Aqua's keeping busy.


Aqua's morning was spent running errands. The fridge needed restocking and other supplies that needed replacing. That she hadn't noticed until she was nearly all out said a great deal about her life recently. Sometime after that she'd parked her bike outside of the library intent on getting some reading done. What she ended up doing was falling asleep on a book for a few hours. Later in the evening she would be out and about in the Outer Quarter doing patrols.

Honestly, after everything that had happened, she felt exhausted, but what else can she do but try to keep going?

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[blue_wayfinder]

"A while ago he handed out these quests and if you didn't complete them you'd have a fake Excalibur nose stuck on your face." She pursed her lips a little even though if she were being honest, the memory was at least a little funny, "Someone came to my apartment Ina chicken costume."

Though she blushes a little at the reminder of her nap.

"Yeah. I finished a few..."

[comradery]

"Woah, he did something like that?" Hughes chuckled. "Wow, that's pretty devious. I think I can get why so many people hate him now, hehe."

"Yeah? I can't help but wonder if there are similarities between the fairy tales here and the ones from my world. Were there things like princesses and witches and such in the ones you read?"

[blue_wayfinder]

"He's...something else, that's for sure." The whole quest thing was a little bit funny in retrospect, though Valentine's was still way too recent for her to look back on it with anything but embarrassment.

"There were." She smiled, "The really interesting thing, though, was that some of the stories actually resembled people that I've met and what happened to them. Some of them even have the same names as the main characters."

[comradery]

"Oh? You mean here, right?" At least, that was the only think Hughes could assume. Excalibur counted as one such thing he had read about that existed in this world, after all.

[blue_wayfinder]

"Well, I know that Cinderealla is here, but I was talking more about the worlds I'd visited before." She had, oddly enough, not read the story of Excalibur. She hadn't really been interested in it after meeting the real thing.

[comradery]

"Before here? What do you mean?" Hughes paused before continuing. "Did you go to different worlds and stuff before BREW brought you here?" Did this mean there were similar things like BREW on other worlds? That was relatively unsettling.

[blue_wayfinder]

After the last time someone was very insistent about finding out how she could travel between worlds she was a little hesitant to bring it up too much. Still, she didn't really think Hughes would push her for answers she couldn't give.

"There was something that allowed me to travel to other worlds back home. Usually it's not something I'm supposed to talk about but, well, it's not like people here don't already know that other worlds exist."

[comradery]

Oh. Well, as long as it was not another BREW...

"I see. Yeah, that's certainly true. If anyone arrived here without knowing, they'd understand the existence of other worlds soon enough. Was it fun? Going to other worlds, I mean."

[blue_wayfinder]

...was it fun?

"I hadn't really thought about it. It was just something I had to do." To keep the worlds safe, to carry out her responsibilities as a Keyblade Master. Still, when she thought about it...

"But I met a lot of friends during my travels and I learned a lot from them."

[comradery]

"Business before pleasure, eh?" Hughes chuckled. "Nothing wrong with that. At least you took your job seriously, right?"

And then he smiled warmly. "I think meeting new people is always interesting. You can always learn different things that way, and if not not generic things, getting to know them is nice too. Learning about what they like or what they do... I think it's definitely fun. Even if you happen to be from the same world, everyone's experiences are always different, and everyone's point of view has it's own unique quirks. I think being able to see the different aspects of that is intriguing." There he went rambling again. It was something he definitely felt passionate about though. Moving on...

"Do you suppose your job would have been more boring if you hadn't made friends?"

[blue_wayfinder]

"There was too much riding on it for me to not take it seriously."

And in another life, one where she'd never become a Keyblade Master, she would have been content staying in just one world. Still, that was not to be and she doesn't really regret it.

She nodded during his explanation. She had learnt a great deal travelling, about dreams, friendship, love and what being a hero means. Some of what she learned raised even more questions, but she was glad for the experience.

She had to stop and think about his question, though. After a moment she just shook her head with a quiet laugh.

"I can't imagine it." She admitted, "A lot of them ended up helping me out. I can't imagine how I could have done some of those things I had to without them there."

[comradery]

"Heh. That's really responsible of you. Yeah, it's never a good idea to goof off when a lot is at stake... Not many young people really think about that though." At least, it had never been at the forefront of his own mind. Roy's either. Not until the Ishval Civil War, anyway.

Hughes chuckled softly at her reply to his last question. "Friends are pretty wonderful. I don't think I could imagine how things would have been without them either." His expression gets a bit wistful, but it passes quickly enough. "It's always nice to have them. They're reliable."