gogglesyndrome | Tenth Flame-[Voice/Action]

[as mentioned to a few different people, Taichi has finished building his treehouse in the forest and so today he's lounging around in there pretty pleased with himself. Laying on the floor of his treehouse with his hand dangling out the door, he has his eyes lightly shut]

Sometimes I wonder if it's a good idea knowing the future. Sure a lot of bad stuff happens but I already know that we're going to win. Daisuke gave me a sum-up. But now Izzy's here too and he's older too. What gives? Oh well, at least I know I'm still the leader!

And at least I don't have to worry if I get into a good high school or not. And I definitely don't have to worry about looking stupid in the school uniform haha. I wonder if future-me has a girlfriend...I bet I get one before Yamato! Girls love athletes instead of stupid harmonicas.

Seeing Izzy here makes me sort of miss being home though. It's an improvement of the Digital World, that's for sure. Here we don't have to worry about making camp and where our next meal's coming from and running away from giant monsters. But...let's see. If it's May already, and I was at camp in August, and I got here right as I was leaving the Digital World in Earth's time frame of August, then that means I've been away from home for ten months? No wait, that's not right. Man this whole time thing's completely out of whack, why can't time just be normal?!

Maybe my friends don't even notice I'm gone. The other Chosen will, they have to, but my school friends and the soccer club, I wonder if they do. And Mom and Dad, they've got to still be worried about me and 'Kari especially since we didn't come home from the Digital World.

But I guess there's really no need to worry about it...I'm sure the others are doing just fine. Izzy said they were...they're capable of taking care of themselves. Maybe the Malnosso will bring everybody else in. I hope not, because that would kind of suck, but then at least we'd be together and could work on getting out of here. Oh well. For now, I'll just enjoy the sun while it's around.

At least that's the same as home.

[[ooc: just as a small clarification, Taichi's referred to Koushiro as Koushiro to other people out of respect for his friend but when it's just him talking to himself/actually to the redhead he'll refer to him as Izzy as a sign of friendship. Same concept of people referring to him as Tai versus Taichi the more they know him.]]

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...are you afraid of water, Raine?

No! ... I mean, of course not. There's simply ... no use in having an ocean in here.

You're scared of the ocean! Why?!

...

... I nearly drowned as a child.

...[oops.]

...how?

[She's quiet for a moment, her tone very soft and distant]

... My family was being chased. Eventually we made it onto a ship, and I fell into the water. It was winter, and the water was very cold.

Why were you being chased...? And you were pulled out weren't you? You didn't get separated right?

...

... Because I was a prodigy. The details are a bit complicated, but there was a place that was so desperate to get their hands on me that we were chased everywhere. I never understood what was going on at the time. I'm afraid I don't remember it all that well.

I can't really recall how I was pulled out of the water, either... but we weren't separated then.

...prodigy? Prodigy in what? [now that he's curious, he's just going to keep asking questions. Sorry Raine, if you want him to stop, you'll have to shut him up yourself]

... Hm? [Her tone is still a bit distant.]

It wasn't anything specific, really; I was just a very fast learner, and often picked up on things that most adults had trouble with. Anything having to do with math, logic, reasoning... it all came rather naturally. I was also very curious.

...hah. You should meet my friend Koushiro. He's the same way. But people wanted to take advantage of that?

Is that so?

... Yes, they did.

Yeah, he's really smart and his curiosity got us out of some tough situations.

That's not very fair. What'd you do?

I'll certainly keep that in mind.

We just kept running, for as long as we could. And then ... Genis came along.

...and then?

...

He was just an infant, and I was barely eleven. My mother took us to a ruin... it was really a portal to another world.

...so you were my age when you went to another world. Weird...did they at least stop chasing you after that?

Hm? Ah yes, that's right...

They stopped. I don't know if they knew what my mother had done or not... I wasn't able to return until years later, and we were heavily involved with other things.