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unbroken_chainHello! You've reached the voicemail of the beautiful genius Kotoha! I'm not here right now - I'm probably off doing something amazing (or buying groceries, whichever) - so please leave a message and I'll get back to you!
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Date: 2014-05-12 06:58 pm (UTC)[Fumi will pause for a moment, possibly to let it sink in just why she bothered to call to tell Kotoha this.]
Kotoha, you're used to this. Having friends, and having a lot of them. Surely you've been forced to suddenly part with some of them along the way without warning. How exactly do you cope with this?
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Date: 2014-05-12 07:36 pm (UTC)"...the first thing I do is buy some croissants. You always get one of them."
She twists one of her ponytails around her fingers as she continues talking.
"Meetings and partings...they're part of what it means to be a Pokemon Trainer. If you stay in one place, they'll move on, and if you're moving on, they'll stay in one place. So...I'll tell you the secret every Trainer learns at the start of their journey, okay?"
Kotoha's smile is quiet and serene, a far cry from her normal energetic grin.
"You take in everything you learned from them, all the changes they inspired, and you pass them on to everyone you meet. And then, when you remember them, you look at the people around you and see that reflection shining back at you. No one ever really disappears from your life, not really."
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Date: 2014-05-12 07:41 pm (UTC)That, unfortunately, is the most frustrating part of all. I wasn't done learning from her. I hadn't even scratched the surface of understanding the sorts of things Agatha could do. I never even came close to the slightest glimpse of the sort of intuition she possesses. Probably because it's easily the most counterintuitive thing I've ever witnessed. And now she's gone, and I don't know that I ever will.
[Fumi grits her teeth, closing her eyes for a moment to try to calm herself down.]
Agatha understood. Her methods were vastly different from my own, but she understood, respected, and encouraged the way I'd chosen to live my life, and my approach to research. I'd never seen the merit in seeking validation from others, and I certainly never asked for hers either, but when I received it from her... it meant something.
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Date: 2014-05-12 08:16 pm (UTC)Kotoha leans forward a little, intensity creeping into her voice.
"The hardest part about contacting a different world is knowing that they exist in the first place, right? We've got that down, we've got that crystal thing that can breach the barriers, and if it comes down to it I have a Celebi, so I can just travel back in time to before Entree Island was cut off from the alternate worlds. If you really want to keep learning how she does things, I will make that happen."
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Date: 2014-05-12 08:29 pm (UTC)...I knew there was a reason I liked you, Kotoha. You and I have a similar attitude toward perceived obstacles.
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Date: 2014-05-12 08:36 pm (UTC)"Got that right."
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Date: 2014-05-12 08:42 pm (UTC)[Kotoha, this may be your only chance to drag Fumi around and make her do girly things.]
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Date: 2014-05-12 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-05-12 08:59 pm (UTC)Butter would not melt in Kotoha's mouth.
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Date: 2014-05-12 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-12 10:37 pm (UTC)Kotoha is perfectly composed.
Really.
"So, we good for tomorrow, then?"
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Date: 2014-05-12 11:09 pm (UTC)[Fumi nods.]
...And thank you, Kotoha.