interstellar5555 | This sudden burst of sunlight

Who: Namine and anyone who wants to visit her.
What: A Nobody pretends to be a Somebody until she can rescue her friends.
When: Early Feb
Where: Rockwell's Art Supply
Warnings: IDEK. It's Namine Like. Really. It's entirely on whatever characters are visiting, really.

A

Nora Whitney is a lovely girl if you ask Mr. Rockwell or any of the people who work at Rockwell's, for that matter. There are only a few people on staff, Nora being the newest. She's always willing to help, and she's often found drawing on her breaks, or when there isn't anyone at the register.

When asked she'll say that she likes drawing things she sees, the pictures seeming to be of the city or of the many stars that are in the papers and the tabloids. She smiles kindly and tells them she likes music. It's not a lie. But it isn't the entire truth either.

She's quite good at that, by now.

She tends to take the register nearer to closing, beforehand it's easier to find her roaming the store, restocking or cleaning.

B

On her way to and from work, Nora tends to take all sorts of different paths. She leaves early from home to find new ones, and returns home late to keep looking some days, though she often shows up at any of her 'family's' workplaces to walk home with them, even if it's rather far away, and there is no real way she could've gotten there from her own work quite so quickly.

She sometimes stops to draw, but mostly just seems to be wandering, wearing her patchwork leather bag and seeming to just take in everything she can see.

Acting like a regular person is very new to her, afterall.

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Riku entered the shop around one in the afternoon. Thankfully the sub shop is only a few doors down so he can visit Namine for lunch.

He greets the person at register and goes to look for Namine. "Hey," he said when he found her, holding up a bag with two subs, one for him, one for Namine. "You good to break for lunch?"

She's puzzling over several tubes of yellow paint that were not properly in the right order when Riku gets there. She's fussing, honestly. There isn't much she can do at the moment until her break so it's almost a relief when Riku joins her.

She's not very good at taking up time that doesn't have a very specific job when she's at work. She's begun to learn this about herself.

Or about Nora.

Both?

Either way, Namine smiles and nods.

"Yes. I think I have a half an hour before Rachel needs to leave." The girl at the front desk has to leave for some appointment. Something painfully normal. Namine said she would watch the register for her.

Riku was reluctant to say it, but he hopes that when all is said and done, he hopes Roxas and Namine get to stay out of Sora and Kairi and get to be their own people. And the others in Sora too.

A little bit of good that the two morons caused in their hubris.

"Awesome. Out back again?"

He watched her for a moment. It was interesting, working with her again, seeing her become her own person.

"Sounds good." Namine leads the way, waving to Rachel at the register to let her know she's taking a break, Rachel gives a sort of half wave and goes back to reading her tabloid.

"Rachel said I could have some of her old magazines." She says as she leads him out the door to the back. "She's a fan of a lot of different music. I thought they might help."

She's been talking about all sorts of things, like how the musicians are dressed or who they date. It all seems very personal to her, but then she's never really dealt with any of this before.

As much as she's begun to like the people she works with, she feels much calmer around Riku or the other rescuers. There is less pretending. She's still not sure she's very good at it, really.

"Good, we can learn more about what Sora's been up to."

He followed Namine to the back and took out her sandwich and handed to her. "Your usual. I'm trying out the meatball today."

He opened his sub and took a bite. "Have you heard anything interesting? Most of the guys I work with like Junkyard Carnival and have crushes on Yuffie." He pauses.

"Speaking of Yuffie, there's a Cloud here too. You think they're ours, or another version?" As far as he knew Namine had never met either, but she had seen them in Sora's memories. This whole another version of people was confusing, in addition to the people pulled out of the past like Reborn's Luce.

This whole thing was a mess.

She takes the sandwich and takes a very long time to unfold the paper, she is very oddly meticulous about it. She takes a while to start eating, it's always a process for her, and she takes a lot longer than most people to do so, picking at it with her fingers and eating it in small bites.

"I don't know. They're not...It feels like their hearts are linked up, but all of the musicians are." They're all connected by what's been done to them. Some of them are so interconnected you would never know they hadn't been born in the same world, or of the same heart. It's all very sloppy. And distracting. And likely quite painful.

"I'd have to see them to know."

"Rachel likes VIP. She says they're very...odd? But like that's a good thing." She pauses, and then smiles. "She showed me videos of Flashstep performing on her phone.

"Next time there's a Junkyard Carnival or Hue and Cry concert we'll go then," Riku said before taking another bite.

"It's probably Blanche's and Santiago's influence. You know how memories are. Better than most, change one thing it causes changes all down the chain."

He took another bite. "I still can't believe he's a famous rockstar in this world. Sora's such a dork." Though he's smiling when he says this.

Namine nods, pleased. She'd very much like to see them all in action, though it's hard to watch all of the people who've been taken, the music is very interesting. It wraps you up. She never much got to listen before this to much of anything. She thinks she might like it.

"They're all so wrapped up. Every single one of them." She pauses, and then smiles, a little. "I think it might make them easier to untangle, in the end."

She has a theory, that if they're all linked up, you can pull on one and they will all feel it. She has no idea if that's real, but she wants to try. There has to be some good she can do.

She laughs behind her hand and Riku's comment.

"He's a very good dancer, at least here, he is. Very....Energetic." Namine is fairly sure that's a compliment. She's not very good at giving them.

Riku frowns thoughtfully, on the same wave length as Namine. He doesn't say anything because he doesn't want to get his own hopes up.

"Sora's... you know, I never paid attention to how well he dances," Riku said with a sheepish grin. "But he's always been energetic. Even as toddlers he wore me out." He takes another bite, finishing his sandwich. He's always been a fast eater. Even as a kid he had other things to do then eat. His parents once told they would shove food in his mouth as he ran by during dinner.

"You got a band you like?" he asked. "I'm digging Cosmic Indulgence."

This sudden burst of sunlight

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