Sixteenth Goal: Departure. [Video, backdated to the 19th, morning]

[headup_stickontheice]

[Cam's got his backpack on. He's carrying something, under his arm, a pack of some kind. The implications are clear -- he's going somewhere. Lucette carries Salamon behind him, along with a tiny bag of her own.]

There's no easy way to say this... Me and Maya, and Neku and Shiki, we're going with Sakuyamon. We just... It's the right thing to do right now. Harley, if we could uh...still talk through video...? I can get, stuff, sent, through...shipping, they've got this pirate system. LH, man, I'm sorry, uh... Keep up your workouts, okay? It's...uhm. [He looks like this is not exactly how he planned on saying this.]

...Sometimes you need a change of view, you know?

[He bites his lip and then smiles.] So...yeah. See you guys around, I guess.

Comments

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[alive_through_luck]

Why should she come back? She apparently doesn't want to be here anyway.

[You'll have to excuse him, Cam. He's 8 and hurt and just taking his anger out in all the wrong places...]

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[headup_stickontheice]

[Oh no. :(]

No, it's not that! [He tries speaking softly.] She's just scared, all of us who're going are. We need to go somewhere else, so we can stop being scared.

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[alive_through_luck]

She didn't have to be scared here! There's nothing scary here!

[He bites down on his lower lip, because he knows he's just going to start crying soon...even if he won't admit it.]

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[headup_stickontheice]

It's not really the place all the time...

...and it's nothing you did.

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[alive_through_luck]

Then why did she leave...?

[The voice is small, actually insecure.]

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[headup_stickontheice]

...Sometimes you just need to...go.

It's not easy.

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[alive_through_luck]

[Duo goes quiet for a long time before he mumbles.]

Everyone leaves...

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[headup_stickontheice]

[What does he say? How does he respond?]

...She can still talk to you. She's not going to just leave forever. ...I promise.

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[alive_through_luck]

...She probably wouldn't want to now.

[Because he was angry and mean to her.]

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[headup_stickontheice]

[How strange that he's been on the other side of a similar conversation, so many many months ago.]

You know, never know that unless...you try talking to her.