Tenth Link

[colorbymemory]

Characters: Riku and Namine
Content: More picture conversations
Location: Their respective rooms
Time of Day: Varies
Warnings: Adorbs and funnies?
Notes: Continued from last week.

With the start of the new week, Namine was glad to see her appearance had returned to normal. It was a relief to look in the mirror and see the image she usually thought of as herself. Not that the change hadn't had its advantages; she'd enjoyed not having to use a stool to reach things in the supply cabinets as often as she usually did.

Still, she was back to her usual appearance and that made her a little happier. She went about her usual routine without having to worry about avoiding Cambots or a flying Pinkie Pie. At least one thing that hadn't changed was her and Riku's picture exchanges, and she found one waiting for her when she came back from the theatrical deck.

She smiled, mostly because she had trouble believing that Riku had ever been a poor student. It WOULD be nice to even things up like that, though unfortunately it wasn't that easy. She set to work on her response--really a response to his picture and a new message on one page. On one half, she and Riku each held a piece of paper that said "Math" and had what looked like equations. Riku's had been given an A, hers a C. On the other half was a picture of her looking in the mirror, her reflection matching her appearance once again.

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Riku smiled down proudly not so much at his picture, but The drawing wasn't slipped under her door this time, but placed atop a small bundle in front of her door. The paper it was drawn on looked a little different too, complete with an odd texture and uneven edges. Riku didn't reply to Namine's first picture. He needed space on the page, and he was afraid he'd draw too big. The first half of the page depicted him also as normal, looking at his hand. It felt good being a teenager again. The other half had a picture of him entering the time machine Gypsy had mentioned. The dial appeared to be set on "dinosaur," as indicated by a little picture of a green blobby sauropod. Someone couldn't draw a dinosaur to save his life.

However, more importantly, under his drawing was the result of all the noise and missing items from around the satellite. There was a bundle of hand-made recycled paper, tied with twine. Each piece was different. Some was bleached white, some was tinted cream, light green or light blue. Specs of crayon could be seen in the grains of paper, proof he'd used his own failed drawings to make this.