Forty-First Keychain-[Written]

[perplexme]

Another year later and I'm still not sure about Christmas here. Christmas in Christmas Town's one thing, but otherwise...what's there to do here for Christmas anyway? Maybe I just don't get it...other than watching Sora and company pass out presents. That's different.

I guess I could say Merry Christmas, but I'm not sure it means anything if I still don't get it.

At least they left us alone this year, right? Yeah.

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[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Hence my doubts. I don't even know if these experiments are actual experiments or just effects from whatever it is they are doing.

... Sorry, I don't think I'm helping much.

[perplexme]

What, like maybe they're just used to distract us from what's really happening?

No, no it's fine, I've been trying to think about this for a while now.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Right. Each time we start suspecting them, they can always throw something at us to catch us completely off-guard. We're too much on our toes for experiments and New Feathers that we forget there is something going on in the back.

At least in theory.

[perplexme]

That would make enough sense, especially when you consider that by constantly bringing in new people, you lose the amount of people that actually know what's going on and they spend time trying to explain it while missing details. It's a mess sometimes, but it makes sense.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

It just makes me wonder why they choose to let some of them stay though. Are they purposely doing this to confuse us? I know a lot of the older residents update us with new information, but I have to wonder if those information are meant to be things we learned on our own, or things they purposely left to give us a false sense of security.

[perplexme]

Could be a little of all of the above. It's easy to manipulate people into believing whatever reality you want them to believe just by tweaking certain details here and there, throwing in a few people to get along and be on your side and call it good.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

There are too many things that could possibly be reality. It's hard to say which one to believe.

[perplexme]

So I guess the question is do we believe all of them, or none of them.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Better yet. What is it we should believe in the first place?

[perplexme]

Exactly. Probably nothing at all.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

That's even more difficult, isn't it?

[perplexme]

Yeah, but nobody said being a hostage would be easy.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

It would be nice if there was a handbook on that.

By the way, I'm Alfons. What's your name?

[perplexme]

How to Survive Being a Hostage: Chapter One, Knowing Your Captors.

I'm Roxas.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

[Pfffffffffft Roxas.]

That sounds about right.

Nice to meet you then, Roxas. Or... well, as nice as it could be with a serious conversation like this.

[perplexme]

[Cynical, us, never.]

Likewise. Sorry, it kind of went down a really serious path kind of fast, didn't it?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

I introduced it, so don't worry. Besides, it's good to have serious conversations once in a while.