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[siebter]

[ If anyone knows Emil, this is a familiar voice coming through the journals. Though strangely, he sounds pretty distressed. ]

This is-- I remember now! I was here a long time ago! Everyone was right, nothing changed when I was gone...

But I hope that not a lot changed here. Maybe my friends are still here, right?

[ Oh, the journal's been open this whole time. ]

Hello. Does anyone remember me? My name's Emil, and I think it's been a long time since I was here.

{ ooc; Waking up five years later in canon really messes with your perception of time. }

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dictated;

[whitecovered]

[...Well. That took a little while. Though Weiss would hardly call it a long time...and he sounds distressed, which is a signal for him to start floating from the library to Emil's room.]

There you are, lad.

dictated;

[siebter]

[ Oh, thank goodness for familiar voices. ]

Weiss, you're still here?

dictated;

[whitecovered]

Of course I am.

[You're not getting rid of him anytime soon.]

Are you surprised, Emil?

dictated;

[siebter]

Well...yeah. I was gone for a long time, after all.

dictated;

[whitecovered]

Truly...?

[Okay, Emil's sense of time wasn't this wonky before. Something is not aligning.]

How long?

dictated;

[siebter]

It's been five years.

[ Come on, Weiss, you're usually good at keeping track of things. ]

dictated;

[whitecovered]

Five long years...

[Ah. There. It clicks. "Five years", for him and Emil, could only refer to one thing. Five years since the incident with Yonah and the Shadowlord happened. The gigantic Shade. And everything else that happened afterward. Still, he should clear some things up right now as he nears Emil's room.]

Emil, in comparison, hardly any time has passed here.

dictated;

[siebter]

Really? How'd that happen?

dictated;

[whitecovered]

I believe that may be caused by yet another temporal inconsistency. Residents claim that once you return to your home world, it is as if you had never left. Is that correct?

dictated;

[siebter]

Yeah...I didn't remember anything.

dictated forever

[likethetragedy]

I remember you. What happened?

[siebter]

I remember you too!

I...I was gone for a long time.

dictated;

[whitecovered]

As I thought. Are you in your room, Emil?

[Because he is like...right outside. Just floatin'. Chillin'.]

dictated;

[siebter]

Yes...

[ At least Weiss is used to him like this. ]

[likethetragedy]

I didn't realize that. [A beat.] How are things?

dictated;

[whitecovered]

Good. Because I am currently outside of it as we speak.

[And that means you should open the door! He'll try to knock...by ramming a corner into the door several times. Or something.]

dictated;

[siebter]

Oh! I'll open it for you.

[ No sound of footsteps, no banging around his room, just silence, and then the door opens. ]

[siebter]

It's okay! Weiss said it was like I wasn't gone at all...

But it's been five years since I was here.

action;

[whitecovered]

[...Silence, hm? Must be the work of magic. Or something.

He floats in, and just as he expected from the "five years" comment, it's skelemil. He was getting used to seeing Emil in a human body during his stay here, so seeing skelemil again is a little jarring. Only a little though, and that quickly goes away. Why? Because Emil will always be Emil to them.]

Mmmm...I see.

[Don't mind him just contemplating.]

action;

[siebter]

Hehe, I do too, now!

[ Some things do not change, clearly. ]

action;

[whitecovered]

[...........

............

............weiss set himself up for that. he really did. He lets out a little groan in response.]

Of course your transformation wouldn't change your terrible sense of humor as well.

[Kidding, kidding.]

action;

[siebter]

[ No, it really is awful. ]

I only look different, right?

action;

[whitecovered]

[That really was just awful.]

Correct. No matter your form, you will always be the Emil we know.

[Yep. "We". Referring to the rest of their companions, and of course, the friends Emil has made during his stay.]

action;

[siebter]

I'm glad...since I don't want to stop being friends with anyone.

[dictated]

[whathedoves]

Hello, mon ami.

Did you, ah, fall asleep? The way others have. It seems like just a quick beauty rest, but then ... !

I hope you didn't wind up in the clinic!