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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.

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I'm home. Come on over, Nea and I are just in the kitchen.

I will be there shortly then.

[AND CLOSING THE JOURNAL NOW. It takes her a little while since she has to gather her notes, put them neatly into her bag and walk over there but once she's there, she knocks on the door and peeks her head inside.]

Roxas-kun?

[He doesn't respond to the journal but instead goes about his business while he waits for Naoto to show. When she appears in the doorway of the house, he just yells back from the kitchen.]

Come on in. We're in the kitchen. [We, of course, being himself and his cat.]

Are you teaching Nea to paint again? [Saying as she comes in, takes off her shoes (Japanese custom is still a thing) and makes her way towards the kitchen]

Not right now, that's for tomorrow. [When she enters the kitchen, she'll see Roxas at the table with a plate in front of him with half a sandwich on it. Nea's got the other half of the sandwich that he's eating from another plate. Roxas also has a deck of cards in front of him spread into various piles. Somehow, someway, he's learned how to play Solitaire.] How's it going?

[Well she expected him to try it again at some point in time. She can't say that him giving his cat a sandwich is that much of a surprise too. He spoils him. The cards are a nice surprise though.]

Fair, I suppose. [She pets Nea on the back a little before taking off her bag and putting it on an empty chair] Have you received any answers that can be deemed helpful to you?

[Of course he does. And Nea likes it that way. He arches his back at Naoto's touch and Roxas shrugs as he lays down another card on one of the piles.]

I think I just signed up to work on a boat.

[She raises an eyebrow at that but chuckles]

Did you? Have you ever before?

Never. But it can't be that hard, you know? It'll be better than this.

Well, I do hope you find it to be enjoyable and gain new experiences it from it. Work such as that seems to be interesting at the very least.

[To be honest, she's a little sad he's moving away from mysteries and has grown tired of them but she won't let it show. As long as he's happy, so is she.]

[It's not so much that as that he's so focused on just one mystery.] You make it sound like that's the only thing I'm going to focus on.

I assumed you were. You've grown bored of all else, haven't you?

Not everything. I just want to add more to it.

I see. [She's relieved and she probably looks it but GOING TO PET NEA AGAIN NOTHING TO SEE HERE]

Besides, you never know what kind of mysteries you'll find out there doing other stuff, right?

That is indeed true. [You realize you're going to have to report everything to her now right...] Perhaps I should ask to join you one day to investigate these ships myself.

You don't even have to ask. Just let me know when you want to come along and I'll tell Captain Hornblower.

I will do that, then. [Captain Hornblower. A name to write down for later. But for now, she starts to get her paperwork out of her bag. She forgot about it for a little bit there] Would you like to see the memoirs now?

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Yeah, definitely. May as well get a head start, right? How many did you say there were?

Yes. I wrote down all twenty-four that had been there. [Taking out one notebook in specific, she flips to a page and lays it flat in front of Roxas for him to see.]

[Give him time to analyze and read all of them...]

...what does it all mean?

[And while he's reading, she'll sit down]

Several assumptions could be made for each individual memoir, to speculate on what they may perhaps mean. [On the next few pages she actually has some assumptions of her own written down] However as a whole, I believe that this means there had been a large group of people, such as ourselves, that had resided here prior to any of us arriving. And sometime during their stay, they had either been eliminated or abducted by the Malnosso or by another party, whether that may be the cultists or another group we are not yet aware of.

...what makes you think they aren't also people that were here at the same time as we were?

The possibility of those people being a part of those who wrote these memoirs seems unlikely because [She points to one memoir specifically] here one states that they had reached their seventh cycle. We have yet to reach our own. This group must have been here long before our arrival, perhaps a decade or two prior. Not to mention that our enclosure currently has no desert, as it's mentioned twice in the memoirs.

[“Nico once went so far into the desert that he found some old wreckage. Was someone here before us?”

She wonders to herself if this has happened before, the disappearance of a group within this or any enclosure and then another is sent in years later to start anew]

That's true. [He's still not ruling it out though. For all they know, these memoirs could have been written by people that were then reprogrammed and dumped into Luceti. It's happened to him in his world, so...still though, he's poring over the memoirs and analyzing as best as he can.] Obviously the next question then is where did they go? That's a lot of people to get rid of.

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