[network; video] @Nobody; [open] Morning 010

[promises_to_keep]

[So many people keep dying. This time, he knew three of the names in the obituary, even if he'd only spoken to two of them once. This is unacceptable. They need to find a way to stop this.

[The video feed opens on Lea's face, looking sort of stern.]

So I say this is getting out of hand, who's with me? [He lifts one finger as if to call for a show of hands, then lowers it and shakes his head.] People keep getting caught outside after dark, and it's gotta stop. We need a map, even a crude one, so people have some idea how far they're gonna need to travel to find shelter and food, or this is just gonna keep happening.

[The view shifts away from him and downward, to show a page in a spiral notebook. It has some boxes and squiggly lines on it. Lea's no cartographer, but it's something.]




[The feed stays on this doodled map while Lea continues speaking.]

On the far right is what's believed to be the southeasternmost corner of this town. It's a veterinary clinic that's apparently cornered in by that huge snow wall. To the south is the wall. Everything westward of it I've mapped as I've traveled around, though I can't guarantee the scale by a long shot. I marked each house with a noteworthy feature, in case anyone happens upon it, so we can try and cobble the rest of the map together based on who's traveled from where.

This is about all I've got--nothing else I've noted has any orienting landmarks--but if anybody can expand on it, we might be able to figure out where other people are in relation.

[The feed comes back around to Lea, and he frowns darkly.]

We've got no choice but to work together, or people are just gonna keep dying. Anybody got anything?

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[desenchanter]

I'm okay. Just cold... the feeling came back.

[promises_to_keep]

It is pretty damn cold. Wish I could still use my Fire, that'd be so handy right now. Find anything interesting yet?

[desenchanter]

I don't understand how our magic is just gone. I can't even call the keyblade.

[ It made him feel very helpless. ]

I don't know if there's anything interesting here......

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[promises_to_keep]

Yeah, I can't call m

[This message takes him a moment to type up, because he literally has to stop and just think about the fact that he was just about to say 'mine, either', and that's still so weird to him. If someone had told him Axel that one day he would not only get his heart back, but would wield a Keyblade, he'd have laughed loud and hard. And yet, here he is.

[He stares at the letters on the screen a moment, then erases them and starts over, this time putting a filter on it, just in case.]

It's a shame we can't get our weapons to cooperate. I was kinda hoping maybe you could give me a few lessons.

[desenchanter]

[ Roxas notices that the message becomes locked and wonders if he said something he shouldn't have, or if it was Lea with the secret. ]

Lessons in what?

[promises_to_keep]

In Keyblading, of course. Seems they're just handing them out to any schmuck who asks for one these days.

[desenchanter]

*You* have a keyblade? That's crazy.

[promises_to_keep]

Tell me about it. I'm still having a hard time believing it myself, honestly. When I went to Yen Sid, I kind of just expected him to laugh in my face, but he told me anybody could wield a Keyblade if their heart was strong enough for it. There's some like. Initiation thing I had to go through, which was a little corny, but hey, whatever works. I kinda like corny, anyway.

It's really weird, trying to use just one weapon--I felt so off-balance every time I tried. Maybe you can give me some pointers one of these days.

[desenchanter]

[ What an utterly sad thing to say, bro. ]

Yeah... I can try.

[ If he ever got to exist in a world where they're together and actually have their magic and shit. ]