[open!] you're only everything I ever dreamed

[oathkeeper]

Who: The Kingdom Hearts cast + You!
Which: Open Log!
Where: The collection of treehouses that the cast has made! And other areas!
What: An open log for residents and adjacent CR to come and go. Top levels inside!
Warnings: tba!


[Now that the residents of Songerein are settling in it seems that a group of uncanny key kids (and a few others) have come together to make a nice little collection of connecting treehouses. The houses are dreamed up and put together with a patchwork of wooden bridges and boards and spruced up with fairy lights that glow and hang from the rafters. The treehouses are high in the canopies of thick trees and the balcony sections are open and breezy for any visitors to come to walk up the steps and see.

Down below the treehouses on the ground seems to be a rather flourishing garden of sunflowers. Where they come from or how they sprouted is still unclear. But it is joined with a rather chubby-looking chicken that pecks at the ground occasionally. Along with the grazing chicken, there seems to be a whoosh of dragonfly wings as a large dragonfly has taken to the treehouse as a home too. And what is this? It seems they might have a small collection of blue birds that won't leave the house alone. What other creatures are out and about?

Dreammotion energy seems to be strong around the treehouses. As the trees house a collection of boys with vivid and wild imaginations. Sometimes lights will flicker brighter or plants will bloom with various strange flowers. And the smell of baking chocolate and cookies is always in the air.]

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[oathkeeper]

[It's just so warming to see her react like that. Sora feels little bad for the threatening tears but he has a feeling they're long overdue.]

Okay. You know what's better than talking? And better than saying thanks for everything?

[He opens his arms wide and his smile is bright and warm.]

Hugging it out.

[Come in here and give him a hug, Naminé. Because nothing Sora can say can really make it clear how much he wants to thank her. How much he thinks that it's thanks to his friends that he is who he is. How much he would do everything all over again to save them again if he really had to. No one needs to pay him back for anything either.

Nah. Maybe just one hug would be fine.]

[lethechained]

[ A lot about this is overdue, the tears very much included. Naminé still tries to hold them back as her subtly damp eyes blink wider open at his questions. The shake of her head is faint and uncertain as she looks at Sora, openly baffled by the inquiries right up until he holds his arms out and for a few moments after that, too.

Then her features jump in surprise, lips rounding as she realizes his intent. It takes longer than it should have, for reasons that might become obvious once she's finished her hesitation and breathes out an almost dazed, ]

Yeah-- okay...!

[ that sounds as pleasantly confused as she looks. Yet when she edges toward him, it's so very cautious. Her hands come up as she steps nearer, hovering uncertainly with an awkwardness that suggests the truth; that she genuinely has almost no idea how to go about this. It's not that she fears his reaction, exactly, so much as her near-total inexperience with physical affection makes the prospect of initiating it a challenge in and of itself.

But she figures he'll meet her partway. That's his nature, isn't it? To bound ahead and capture what he's reaching for, to be bolder than the others. So presently she takes one more cautious half-step forward, herself - so it won't be all him, so he won't have to shoulder the burden for her sake - with hands tentatively drifting toward his sides now that she's in range. ]

[oathkeeper]

[He almost has to let out a puff of fond laughter at her reaction. Only a small chuckle out of his lips before he lets his smile warm again. It must be so strange to deal with something as random as a hug but Sora can't find anything more appropriate than an honest-to-goodness hug. Everyone needs one of those once in a while. And for someone like her, like it was for Roxas, that's incredibly rare. Feeling genuine friendly affection- no one should be without that.

And she calls it just as she thinks it. Sora scoops his arms around her in a flourish. Pulling her up to him with another chuckle escaping his lips. Wrapping his arms around her readily and easily that he almost picks her up right off the tips of her toes.]

I've got you! Haha!

[And a good squeeze, one of those really wholehearted hugs that make your lungs kind of go breathless. Smiling the entire time while blinking away the tears! Thanks, Naminé!]

[lethechained]

[ It's true that she wasn't prepared for this - not only the practical application of a hug, but the concept of receiving one at a time like this, too. Yet Naminé supposes Sora is a lot better at this whole 'having friends' business than she is, and he's got enough of her faith that she hasn't any inclination to question him on the matter.

Instead, she'll stiffen up just a little when he gathers her in, weight unsteady a moment until her feet extend enough to press her toes into the floor and stabilize them both. The air does go straight out of her lungs for more reasons than one, but her mouth curls into a helpless smile as she uses what small amount of her breath is left for a huff of a laugh. Her hands are still uncertain, yet there's direction, now, in mimicking him; she wraps her arms around his midsection in response, far more gently but with no less sincerity as her hands tuck past each other to close the loop. (Perhaps she ought to have gone higher instead, she realizes too late. It's of little matter now, anyway, when the embrace is managed just the same.)

She doesn't quite know where to put her head, so it falls naturally to rest on Sora's shoulder, readily presented as it is. Eyes fully damp, now, and swimming with warm water that she has no real cause to regret when he's not looking at her to catch it, Naminé confirms quietly, ]

... Mm. I guess you have.

[ She's always believed in him - that he could find his way back to her, some day. It was only ever herself she didn't put any stock in, but in hindsight it seems silly; he did promise, after all. ]

[oathkeeper]

Yeah.

[Sora hugs her securely for a moment longer before he lets go and gives her a warm smile. Hands grabbing hers and squeezing them with some boyish eagerness.]

I think that's all I really needed. And from now on, we'll both do our best to be there for each other.

[It's a gentle promise. Maybe a little childish but it's true. Sora has wanted to help her so many times in the past. While he can't remember all the details the memories and details are all wrapped up neatly in the core of his heart. And for all the times he knows that she's helped him. He has to thank her for that. Even if she feels like she doesn't need it.

This world is giving them a chance to reconnect, after all. And he doesn't want to let go of that.]

[lethechained]

[ There's at least one tear that manages to escape, that sinks into the material of his clothing and that she can only hope Sora didn't notice. But that's no criticism of the embrace; rather, Naminé feels quite certain that even if she were more experienced with being hugged, she would still rate this one near the top of the list in quality among said occasions.

The girl sags just a little when she's released, one palm flying to brush at her cheek before her arm falls again for him to take her hands. She doesn't quite manage to look dry-eyed when she smiles up at him, but at least the dampness on her face is gone and the joy is real. ]

Mm. [ It might not be in so many words, but a promise really is a promise. This one feels no less sweet for how much more attainable it seems than the last; Naminé's never been one to enjoy longing for that which she can't have. ] We'll look after each other, then. Starting now.

[ Something at last less one-sided, a more mutual assistance than the trade-off they made of it before. But if she thinks too hard about it she's likely to shed more tears, so Naminé huffs out a laugh instead, fingers tightening slightly around his as she glances toward the basket she set aside when she walked into the treehouse, still waiting nearby and filled to the brim with the freshly picked foodstuffs she brought here to share with her worldmates. ]

Maybe-- by helping each other eat some of this food. There's no way I'll ever be able to get through it all on my own...!

[ Clearly, she needs the assistance of a hero - and preferably one with a big stomach. ]

wrapping! 🎀

[oathkeeper]

[He's content with that, wet shirt from the tears or not, as long as they both know that they an be there for the other one. That's all Sora really wants to do. Be there for her and have someone to open up to if he can. And a chance to get to know her better, help her if he can, will be well worth it.

Sora smiles as he nods. Finally releasing her hands so he can scoot over to the basket of snacks and things and take a peek in.]

Yeah, that sounds good to me. My stomach is growling like crazy right now.

[They can start with a good lunch together and Sora can eat up whatever she doesn't finish with ease. Don't worry, he's got that.]