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It was very similar to this place. It even had its own fort. There are a few differences but the layout feels familiar.

[chanteuser]

Is the outfit similar too?

[ she almost boops his hat but stops herself at the last minute. stupid no touchy rules. ]

The hat thing seems to be pretty important to the whole pirate get up.

[reconnective]

Yup! [there's even a widdle crown stamped on the side of his hat that pretty much matches his necklace.] Sometimes when we travel to new worlds, our appearances change to blend in better. A lot of the pirates we've met had hats.

[i hope alex is enjoying the absolute pure !!! energy from him right now.]

[chanteuser]

[ he's such! a! good! boy!! ]

Automatically? That would've been helpful here... but I guess with all the tailor shops and lockers with stuff cropping up we're sort of getting that experience now.

[reconnective]

At least with the shops and stuff we get to pick what we look like. We didn't always know how we'd look until we actually landed on the new world. But I kind of like that people can have a few choices.

[chanteuser]

And there was no way to change it if you just showed up in it?

[ she nods. ] I had a lot of fun picking out some outfits. I might get another one.

[reconnective]

Nope. It was just the way things were, but it wasn't always so bad. [that's a lie, some of them were weird and there's a little flutter of something confusing there. oh well. he tilts his head though.]

Wanna go take a look together? I haven't really seen what's at the shop yet.

[chanteuser]

[ hmmm.

did he not enjoy being a furry boy in lion king and slightly-monsters-inc? ]

Yes!

[ ... ]

I need to find a really big hat, anyway.

[reconnective]

[stop. also he probably actually was super fine being a lion.]

A really big hat. For what? [but he'll get up and begin to walk, waiting for alex to join him so they can head to the tailor's shop.]

[chanteuser]

[ he was an adorable lion i'm proud of him ]

...

[ said completely and utterly seriously: ]

Reasons.

[reconnective]

Very specific, Alex. [he settles for a light kind of pout.] But okay. I'll help you find your really big hat and we'll see what else we can take. It's kind of nice we get to keep stuff even when the gateway brings us somewhere new, isn't it?

[chanteuser]

[ she's in a hat war, sora. it's fine. ]

[ but she brightens up at that. ]

Good!

And, oh. We do? I didn't really take anything out of the space station last week so I wasn't sure.

[reconnective]

[im. alex what.]

Um...I think so! [he is now realizing that is possibly not true but.] Where else would they go, you know?

[...now he's just thinking about this and his brain is just the math lady meme.]

[chanteuser]

...

[ i hope they're ready for an existential crisis now because-- ]

But where did the entire space station go then...?

[reconnective]

Oh, it's probably still there. But the bridge took us to another memory. One of the leaders told me it's like a gateway. So this place will be left behind, too. It doesn't disappear but it's just that we lose access to it.

[chanteuser]

Oh I see... so the things from the memories don't just up and vanish, so they should be able to keep "existing" even when we leave a memory behind.

[reconnective]

I think so. Our stuff didn't disappear from that lab, right? [speaking of.] Do you still have that bracelet?

[chanteuser]

[ she lifts her arm up.


bracelet! ]

[reconnective]

[good.]

Have you asked your leader what it might be for? My sword's just a sword, but yours looks like it's missing something. [the bracelet has a slot for a jewel and now he wants to know what the heck it was.]

[chanteuser]

[ ty, bold of you to assume i thought of that. ]

There was a picture with the bracelet. I took it with me... it was like a kid's crayon drawing?

[reconnective]

[becks im crying.]

I don't remember a drawing. [but there was so much happening it's not like he thinks much of it.] What'd it look like?

[chanteuser]

It was of someone wearing the bracelet, and there was a circle around them.

[reconnective]

A circle. Like...[he lifts a hand to draw a circle in the air.] Or something else?

[chanteuser]

It was just drawn like a circle... [ she makes the circle motion ] But it was drawn around the figure in the picture, specifically.

[reconnective]

...what if it used to be, like, a shield or something? We have bracelets like that where I'm from that help us in battle. They don't make real shields or anything but they help us be a little stronger.