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[It's late at night when the journal entry appears.]

Evening.

I suppose I am writing in this thing because I can't sleep. I haven't really figured out what to do about that. Any suggestions would be helpful.

[There's a pause, before he adds more.]

Is anyone else up at this hour? What are you doing with your time?

[Another pause, longer than the last.]

If anyone would like to talk right now, that would be fine.

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I'm up. You know I am, Yuuki.

[Chandra laughs.]that guy was trying to teach me. Slow going, and I'm stiff as a board.

It's not a very good habit though.

[He blinks a little.]

What are you trying to learn Chandra?

Blue magic. It's...kind of a pain.

Is it? I don't really know anything about magic. It's not something I encountered at home.

Yeah, it's kind of the opposite sort from what I usually do. But I figure it'll come in handy.

You do fire so it must be water based.

How is it you learned fire in the first place?

Fire's one part of what I do. I'm more...the chaos type. Red magic. Blue's more logical magic than Red. But it's energy comes from the sea, so there's an element of water to it.

And...well, I just sorta...started using it. My people were all fire mages, and I was just a natural. Even if I wasn't a Planeswalker, I'd be a pyromancer.

[Most of what she says is a little lost on him, but he's doing his best to follow her.]

It's more than fire? That's interesting. Is there some reason you can use magic and other people can't?

Well yeah. Red magic is the magic of freedom and impulse, and the earth. I just like fire best.

[She laughs at the second bit.]

And no. There are people like me...Planeswalkers...who are naturally gifted with magic. And then there are regular mages. Wizards, sorcerers, whatever you want to call them. They're like me but they have to study to even get started. I just have to study to learn outside my natural talents.

So anyone could learn magic where you're from. Where I'm from it's the kind of thing you read about in books or see in movies.

[He sighs softly.]

Mind you, I have to acknowledge it might exist.

Yeah, anyone with the will and the drive can learn it. Though, it's not easy.

And, okay, that's the third time I've heard that word. What's a movie?

I don't know if that's something I would have learned. If it's the kind of thing that's normal, probably. [He never thought much about different worlds before coming here, naturally.]

At home we have a screen called a television. It can be of almost any size and most people have them in their homes. A movie is a story, like a play that's filmed with all kinds of effects. It would be like if someone was watching us sail on this ship. If I filmed it, they could. People can also go to theatres and watch movies on a much larger screen then what can fit into your home.

Oh, it's not normal. Most places anyway.

{She sounds curious, though.]

So, moving pictures? I've seen stuff like that. Enchantments though, nothing...machine created.

Moving pictures complete with sound. It's almost as though you're standing in the room it's happening. Someone records it and it's distributed through mass production. There are a lot of different movies, as many genres as there are for books.

Sounds pretty convenient. Must be nice to have around on a quiet day.

I wasn't really big on movies myself, but rather video games.

[Which of course he now has to explain.]

Video games require an additional piece of equipment, a console of some kind, and then the games were made with animation instead of real people, but it was the same idea, sort of. Except you usually controlled a character, moving them around on the screen.

[He sighs softly again, a little morose as he speaks without really thinking.]

Tohru had a console in his room and we played together often, although sometimes he would play and I would watch, or read.

Those sound really cool, not even kidding. Shame there aren't any here...

Are there?

[And she pauses, not sure she knows that name?]

Who's Tohru?

I'm not sure technology would support it. I could make some inquiries though if you want. Miss Margie might have a way to make it viable.

[He has some money lying around after all.]

Ah, well, Tohru was my best friend.

Hey, if it's something you wanna do, I'll give it a shot.

[Uh oh Natsuno...she zeroes in on this one.]

Best friend huh? Tell me about him.

[He's shifting a little on his hammock and trying to think of what to say. It's been awhile because, well his focus had been elsewhere. He feels a little guilty about that now, considering how things turned out.]

Let me see, he was really friendly. Even when I told him to back off, he was still determined to be my friend. He was older than me, eighteen already and out of school, so he was learning to drive. He was pretty good at repairing broken bike tires, and he always won at video games. He had more time to play them I guess. Him and his siblings, his parents were all just really good people.

[He sounds like he's smiling, just a little bit.]

Even Masao liked him and Masao was terribly annoying. He was friends with Tohru's little brother Tamotsu. I stayed over there a lot because I didn't really get along with my parents. I never have. If it wasn't for Tohru, I would have been able to walk away from Sotoba, most likely.

So he was a nice guy, and he was persistent. Kind of a role model?

[Her voice is actually soft, no teasing edge to it this time.]

Sounds like he means a lot to you.

He was my best friend and he meant everything to me at the time. He was so ridiculous. There's this legend in the town - see there's a spring where the water comes into this little reservoir the town built and in there is this spider and for some reason he seemed to think drinking the water makes you smarter. I kind of rolled my eyes at him but he splashed me with the water and told me I needed it because I was...[A small intake of breath.] working so hard towards entrance exams.

[He stares at the ceiling. These memories, these were the best ones.]

He uh, died. Two months before I came here.

[Chandra follows along quietly until that last bit.]

Oh...uh...shit. I'm sorry, Yuuki.

Thank you.

[Most of his stories kind of end that way.]

I wish that was the end of it, but unfortunately he's become the star of many a nightmare.

Oh?

[She...doesn't want to say it. But she's definitely thinking "Is he like you?"]

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