Sixty-Fourth Keychain - Written

[perplexme]

I only have one simple question for everybody.

[Which is a surprise in and of itself. For Roxas, who generally asks lots of questions and pokes and prods at everything, simple isn't exactly something that fits in his vocabulary.]

What do you do when you've run out of things to do? [A pause.] I mean I've been here for 1,558 days. My cat refuses to keep up his painting and skateboarding lessons. Axel's still gone, and Xion has Luke. Time...moves really fast, and I guess I'm just now noticing.

At least it's close to Christmas again. I've really grown to like the snow and the holiday, maybe almost as much as Sora. Heh. All right, I don't think anyone can love Christmas as much as he can. That'll be something to keep me busy for a while, but what then? I think I've read almost every book in the library by now. Is there more that I can learn still, or does it all just stop?

Anyway, I don't really expect an answer, but I'd appreciate it if anyone had some advice.

…thanks.

Comments

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

How long..?

[Voice]

[perplexme]

Um...ten days, I think. If I'm counting right.

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

That's not very long.

[Voice]

[perplexme]

You don't think that's enough time?

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

I don't know...how long does it take to be good?

[Voice]

[perplexme]

That depends on if you're sorry you were bad.

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

...It's that easy?

[Voice]

[perplexme]

Yeah. I think Santa believes in forgiveness.

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

How do you know that?

[Voice]

[perplexme]

A friend of mine's met him before.

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

Really?

[Voice] omg I'm SO sorry I thought I responded to this

[perplexme]

Yeah. He went to Santa's workshop and everything.

[Voice] It's okay! o/

[mybloodisblack]

...So what's he like?

[Voice]

[perplexme]

He's...really big. And kind of jolly unless Jack's interfering with Christmas.

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

...Jack?

[Voice]

[perplexme]

Jack is...he's a giant skeleton that tried making Christmas better and that didn't really work out for him. I think he's the pumpkin king.

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

A giant skeleton??

[Voice]

[perplexme]

Do you know what a skeleton is?

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

I do...but they can't move.

[Voice]

[perplexme]

They can in a lot of worlds. Don't we have a giant skeleton here? He's not Jack, but he's around.

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

Skeletons shouldn't be able to move.

[Even the thought is freaking him out!]

[Voice]

[perplexme]

Is that bad where you're from?

[Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

No, just scary.

[Voice]

[perplexme]

Jack's not that scary. Weird, sure, but not scary. I don't know enough about the skeleton here though, but I'm going to guess it's the same.

Voice]

[mybloodisblack]

How can a walking skeleton not be scary?