[ Polaroid cameras? There's things like that in his universe. On some worlds, they're even as prolific as they were in her time, in her place. Riku suspects that wherever and whenever she came from, they had something similar to what he'd seen before, in worlds like Twilight Town and others.
Except that's not what's upsetting her, he thinks. It just so happens to be something tangible she can focus on.
It happens to, if not all of them, then enough of them to count. A convenient stressor they grapple with because the weight of living in unabated darkness is too nebulous. Riku can't count the number of times he's nearly lost his cool because of some minor inconvenience. ]
It's okay.
[ Riku bids his hands to unfurl from the fists he's curled them into. Gentles her with a tone soft and low. ]
It's just different. It's okay.
[ Anyone else might have rightly been startled by a tablet that moves on its own. It's possible he didn't even notice, or chalked it up to the hallucinations and other phenomenon that plague those with more prolonged exposure to the darkness that covers over this dead world. ]
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Except that's not what's upsetting her, he thinks. It just so happens to be something tangible she can focus on.
It happens to, if not all of them, then enough of them to count. A convenient stressor they grapple with because the weight of living in unabated darkness is too nebulous. Riku can't count the number of times he's nearly lost his cool because of some minor inconvenience. ]
It's okay.
[ Riku bids his hands to unfurl from the fists he's curled them into. Gentles her with a tone soft and low. ]
It's just different. It's okay.
[ Anyone else might have rightly been startled by a tablet that moves on its own. It's possible he didn't even notice, or chalked it up to the hallucinations and other phenomenon that plague those with more prolonged exposure to the darkness that covers over this dead world. ]
The pictures stay inside. Want to try it?