Room 206, Saturday Evening, After the Town Hall Meeting

[palestshadow]

"I'll be perfectly safe," Naminé repeated. "I wouldn't have volunteered if I weren't sure of that."

She folded her hands in her lap and awaited further flailings from Valentine. Who seemed less-than-thrilled by her decision to participate in tomorrow's goings-on.

(for the holiday who was modded with permission)

Comments

[importantman]

"Wouldn't have volunteered if--" Valentine drew in a deep breath, and then her patience was indeed rewarded with further flailings. "Naminé, I know how these things work! One moment, you're off saving the world, and the next, it's all boom! Fire! Volcanoes! No-I-Didn't-Order-The-Linguine! And then there's the part with the giant tentacle-head and you think the day is almost saved right before it all goes black."

[palestshadow]

"I won't be there," she said serenely. "When it all goes black, I mean. I'll have teleported out three seconds earlier."

[importantman]

"Yes, yes, and you'll be on the other side watching the paper crumple up and blow off in the wind once you put the charm to your face, too," he replied, attempting feebly to put some sort of edge into his words, and mostly coming across as panicked and tired instead. "And whatever's on the other side will be stuck there with nothing around and..."

Deep breath.

"What if three seconds is a second too late?"

[palestshadow]

"It won't be," she said. Another deep breath, and then she held a hand in front of her, letting the portal flicker into place, and then closed it again.

"All my life," she said, very quietly. "This is who I've been. A Nobody. I exist between worlds. And for the first time, in my life, it means ... I can help someone. I can help this whole island. I can save lives. Me, Valentine."