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[limitboost.livejournal.com]

[It's pretty late, and Roxas realizes there's a curfew, but...

Well, he happened by the ballroom and the door was open just a crack. Being who he is, he couldn't help peering inside the room, and naturally the moment he saw the ceiling he had to wander on in.

Or rather, it's what he can see beyond the ceiling that's got him downright mystified. Through that clear glass he can see the night sky, dark heavens dotted with stars like diamonds. It's enough to make him stand there in the middle of that dark, cavernous room; everything up there's so different and new and he can't help but wonder what other worlds those stars might represent]

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[limitboost.livejournal.com]

You know their names?

[OH MY GOD THAT IS COOL, MISTER]

[tardytardis.livejournal.com]

Not that hard, really. You've just got to study the stars a bit. They're all waiting for someone to notice them, but you lot, you rarely do. Now, that one--Scorpius, can you see those ten stars that makes it up?

[limitboost.livejournal.com]

Well, these stars aren't at all like the ones where I'm from...

[But he'll squint up and try to figure out which ten anyhow]

[tardytardis.livejournal.com]

That's alright, once, there was a time where there weren't any stars at all.

[ a pause. ]

Actually, quite a few times. All of the stars, blinking out. No worries, though--all back to normal.

[limitboost.livejournal.com]

...Really, stars blink out where you're from too?

[tardytardis.livejournal.com]

Only when the universe is in danger. After all, every star is a planet, and if every star disappears, we're suddenly the only ones left in the universe. Not very fair.

[limitboost.livejournal.com]

That's how it works where I'm from too.

[tardytardis.livejournal.com]

Is that right? [ crouches down to look at Roxas. ] Then maybe you're from a parallel world.

[limitboost.livejournal.com]

A...parallel world?

[tardytardis.livejournal.com]

Like rooms in a house, every parallel world is stacked up against the other, and no one quite knows what's going on in the parallel world beside them. That's how it works, and how it should always work.

[limitboost.livejournal.com]

Does that mean it's not always like that then?

[tardytardis.livejournal.com]

When the stars start to fade, that means the universes are all colliding together, like someone made all the walls in the house collapse. And that makes for a very unstable house that could, eventually, fall in on itself.

[limitboost.livejournal.com]

Huh...it works a bit differently back home. At least the part about the stars.

[tardytardis.livejournal.com]

Really?

[limitboost.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when the flicker out, it's because of the darkness. When it swallows up the heart of a world, the light goes out.