[010//Audio & Commentlog] BUT REALLY THERE ARE NORMALLY -SIX- WALLS...

[oathbreakers]

[Everything's back to normal now. No weird age changes, he's not stuck in some girl's body, and he managed to make it through the past two days without finding himself trapped in someone else's body! All in all, an interesting week. But today something odd is going on--today, there are plenty more people than he's seen on this boat before.]

So where are all these new passengers coming from? There's a lot more than usual. And I thought I saw...

[He trails off. He was fairly sure he'd seen someone who looked just like the girl he'd met at the masquerade... but she'd been -different-, too. It was almost like there were -copies- of people here, too.]

Never mind. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the forest.



[That's where Riku's going to be spending most of his day, but it's not the only place you'll find him. Riku's working on that treehouse again, and so he needs tools. He'll be rummaging through the luggage on deck 12 for nails and a hammer and all sorts of fun things, he'll be outside the forest on deck 3 to take a swim, and later on, he'll be in the caverns, not for any real purpose but instead just to think.

You'll find him anywhere, all over the ship today, so feel free to run into him anywhere!]

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[time-keyed.livejournal.com]

Exactly! [You always did catch on pretty quickly, Riku.] This ship can take you anywhere and anywhen in the universe you wish to go--with some exceptions, of course. I can't exactly take anyone backwards into their personal timeline.

[He nods again.] That's right. I know, it's a rather arrogant sort of name, but it's what my race collectively called themselves. Time Lords, watching over all of time and space from Gallifrey.

[The grin turns sheepish, and a very Sora-ish gesture is pulled as he scratches the back of his head.] Or at least, that's the sort of legacy I have to live up to! Gallifrey is seems to be trapped behind a time lock, and I have yet to sense any other Time Lords outside of the lock.

[oathbreakers]

Why's that? Worried about messing up the future, or something else?

[Like that one paradox, the one where if you went back in time and killed your father? This is a lot to digest, so give him a second to sort it all out.]

So you're the only one right now. Can you undo the lock?

[time-keyed.livejournal.com]

Something like that. Encountering yourself when you're not supposed to creates a paradox, which can create a hole in the space/time continuum the size of a small country. [He says this rather matter-of-factly, as if creating a black hole via paradox was the same as commenting on the weather.

While the smile remains, it becomes a sadder smile.] Ah... yes, I suppose I would be, wouldn't I? [He shakes his head in reply to the question.] No good, I'm afraid. Events that are locked in time are not only incapable of being traveled to or messing with, but are behind that lock for a reason. I vaguely recall the theory regarding time-locked events--that they're separated from the rest of the timeline for a reason. Whatever this reason might be...

[He has a few ideas, but there were only whispers and recordings that could tell him about the event he thinks is behind that lock.] I'm certain whoever put the lock in place had a good one.

[oathbreakers]

[...right. Riku lets that one slide for now. He has the general idea of what the man (because he -is- a man now; he's grown and older even while Riku stays the same) means, but he's less interested with the destruction of the continuum and more interested with Sora's apparently reluctance to approach whatever it is that's the problem with his homeworld.]

Well, can't you figure out why? Instead of just accepting it blindly like that?

[time-keyed.livejournal.com]

I would, but I don't want to know. [His voice hardens there, becoming deadly serious.] Ignorance is bliss, after all. If I don't know, then I can hold out on the hope that maybe, just maybe there are more Time Lords out there, hidden away by the influence of a chameleon arch like I was, instead of...

Instead of what the legends I keep hearing say of their fate-- of Gallifrey burning in a war I only barely remember hearing the adults whisper of, the Time Lords all dead. [A dark look appears on his face--dark, and more than a little angry, and alien. Something completely non-Sora--and the hints of a forming grief, and hope slowly being lost the more he hears.]