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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji is sitting in a tea room, stringing a key on a blue string. Once it's on there safely, he puts the string around his neck and tucks it under his shirt.

Then he picks up the device to address the network.]

Have many people been to the beach today?

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[jivitadana]

[Wow, that key is kind of... way familiar.]

... You found that?

[jivitadana]

Were you able to leave the Room then? [Or the car.]

[eatsyourscience]

I never saw whatever was outside of it.

[He looks up as they reach the edge of the beach. The ocean is pretty gray looking today, and the sand is littered with debris.]

But I think most of what happened there was in my head.

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded. He looked through the snow just briefly. All he remembered seeing after the elevator opened was a bright white light.]

Mn, sometimes it was like a dream.

[eatsyourscience]

But Margaret, Elizabeth, and Igor were real. I believe that.

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded, walking through the snow with Souji.]

I think so too. Elizabeth was able to leave the Velvet Room with me. Others were able to see her when she did.

[Besides leaving that last time that Souji had told him about.]

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji smiles a little, wondering what it would have been like to hang out with Margaret outside of the Velvet Room.

The snow thinned noticeably on the sand, and there was none within the tideline. Various items were strewn along the beach, partially buried in the sand. Some of them looked valuable or important. Some looked...not...those things.]

Did she ever kiss you?

[jivitadana]

[Minato smiled, thinking about walking around Iwatodai with Elizabeth. The last time he had been out of the Velvet Room with her...]

... She asked to see my room.

[Not sure if that was enough information. It should've been. Really though, not as scandalous as your kiss with Margaret, Souji. XD]

[eatsyourscience]

[Right out on the street, even.]

I only saw Margaret outside the Velvet Room once, the day before I left Inaba.

[jivitadana]

[Yeah, man, what even. Minato stopped walking when he saw something familiar in the snow. But hey, important questions first:]

She kissed you?

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji nods, glancing around. He spots the something familiar too, but doesn't mention it just yet.]

She told me it was considered a sin by the occupants of the Velvet Room.

[jivitadana]

[Minato smiled again. He knelt down and started to dig the Key out of the snow.]

Elizabeth told me something similar. She had to return to the Velvet Room before she wanted to stay in the real world.

[eatsyourscience]

They're amazing.

[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded, getting his handkerchief out so he could dry off the Key before holding it in his hand.]

They are. [And he was grateful to them too.]

Can I see yours?

[eatsyourscience]

[Souji pulls it out from under his shirt and shows it to Minato.]

[jivitadana]

[Minato compared the two Keys and saw they looked the same. He smiled a little more.]

You didn't drive the car, did you?