DAY THREE

[Riku's dorm]

Riiiiing

"JESUS!" Riku fell off of his bed, clutching the phone in dazed shock. Not wanting to miss Sora's phone call, he had slept cradling the phone near his ear.

Well, it certainly helped.

Excited, Riku tore the receiver from the phone and held it to his ear.

"Sora?!" He whispered eagerly.

"Yep. There are some people who speak it. 40 or so years ago, though." Sora's voice rang loud and clear. Riku jumped up and ran to his notepad, laid forgotten on the table a day earlier.

"Sora, tell me what the town is called or I'll kill you myself!" Riku spat. He heard chuckling on the other line and the rustling of papers.

"Destiny Islands. Nice place. Lots of flowers grow there...."

Flowers...

The word repeated in Riku's head.

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[Hollow Bastion school library]

"Here we go. All the info on Destiny Islands."

"Thanks."

Riku grabbed the top book from the small stack and flipped through the pages. He had tried to find out something about Destiny Islands from the Internet, but all he got was information from some game called Kingdom Hearts. Stupid Google.

His green eyes scanned the pages, searching for anything useful. The town did use to speak Al Bhed, but it is a dead language now. Frowning, that was all the useful information he had...

...until he got to the page about flowers.

"Holy shit."

In the black and white picture above the text, there was a woman holding a flower basket filled with blue-ish looking flowers. She wore a huge smile, and next to her was a silver-haired man...

...who looked like the one in the tape.

Riku felt something warm trickling down his nose. Wiping it with his arm, he found red stained on his arm.

Blood.

"Hey, you got a nosebleed..."

"I know. Thanks." He muttered. He gratefully offered the tissue that was offered to him by the passing stranger and tilted his head back, staring at the ceiling.

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Now that I think back, I think Rachel got the nosebleed on the second day, but I'll just traumatize Riku and have them all occur one day after another. Hee hee, tis fun.