eleventh fusion - video

[beholdmydemons]

[Aaaaalrighty, network, Walter's got a pretty straightforward question to throw out there.]

Over the weekend I found a...dragon? [It looks dragony. He points the camera at the not-very-ferocious-acting Aerodactyl in question, who is lying on his side in the grass, a Volcarona fluttering above him and two Wurmples inching furiously after each other around and over the dinosaur's resting form.] ...in my PC, the way you find Pokemon whose trainers have returned home. But the trainer listed was "Laguna", and...well, I know he's long gone. I found one from him the same way before winter began, and they recognize each other.

So who's gone now that's had a dragon named "Riley" all this time?

[Beep. Hopefully that was to the point enough that someone will know and respond.]

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[superordinary]

I'm all right. [ For the most part, at least. ] It's just...not easy to deal with, when one of us go home. But he'll come back here one day, I'm sure of it.

[ He's going to make it happen one way or another. ]

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[beholdmydemons]

[When Naegi says "go home", Walter's expression folds in on itself in an instant. He nods, then hesitates for a moment, then looks down and fumbles with the Pokegear.

He takes a while to do whatever he's trying to do - lock the conversation, apparently.]

I know in what state he returned. Or didn't return, rather. [He...shrugs.] Is that something you'd rather I not speak of?

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[superordinary]

...Did he tell you about it?

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[beholdmydemons]

Aye. We talked at length about things of that sort.

[...oh-] But I never asked how it came to pass, exactly. [And as much as he wants to know, he's not going to ask Naegi, either.]

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[superordinary]

...It's a long story. [ The kind he'd explain if asked, but he wouldn't exactly be comfortable with it. ]

Lots of awful things happened.

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[beholdmydemons]

I gathered. [He should be surprised or something. These things he's half-learning should seem out of place and appalling but they just don't for some reason.]

He and I didn't talk overmuch about our respective pasts. There were things we never would have come to understand in that regard. [Mostly "time period" kinds of things, but...well, Walter never even considered talking to Leon about what shooting someone felt like, for example. Even without spoilers involved.] And there were stories that weren't ours to tell, I imagine. [Issachar, for him.] We talked more about the future. How to live in this world, in a sense. We found our situations to have more in common than would be expected.