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[ Della's face pops up looking... well, like everyone else - exhausted physically, mentally, and emotionally. She smacks her beak a bit, before speaking. ]

... So. That sucked.

[ Fully aware that's the understatement of the century, Della draws a breath, and tries again. ]

I think we could all use a nice, long breather after everything... and, gosh darn it, as Train Mom, that is my sacred duty. Hugs? Head on the lap? Head-pats telling you that you did a good job? A shoulder to cry on? Venting out all your feelings without judgement? I'm right here.

[ She slaps her chest, then slaps a small sign on on the sports/gym car. It reads

EXHAUST PILE WITHIN

But as she does this, Tidus enters the scene - Della jumps, surprised, almost forgetting his presence.

He just smiles, holding up two cups with steam coming off them, then addresses the video feed as well. ]

We're also making big batches of cocoa too. Any of you that're gonna stress bake? There's room for that room - s'long as you don't need a nap first.

[ It's a small chide though, his smile small but sympathetic. ]

I've gotten out some incense pots from the supplies - you guys who got your head thrown into a blender by that aash-- uh, that jerk, [ he takes a swift glance at Della, then back ] --it'll help you relax. Just some, but better than nothin'. I'll set some off in Momma Duck's air nest, but if you're not doing great and you think you need a pot? Tell me. Raven made a lot of good stuff for good nights sleep if you need any in the medcar, too.

... So, yes. Cocoa. Incense. Hugging. And if you want to sleep with friends for a couple nights, we got air beds and extra pillows in here. Nobody has to get up and go until they feel ready.

And if that's not enough, that's fine too. Maybe next month we do something a little more organized, if you have any suggestions - movie night, sleepover night, big eat night, whatever, I'm listening. And I'm here for you.

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And inside the sports gym, the pair can be found. They have a few airbeds blown up, but there's more that still need airing up if you pop in straight after their message. There's also a tremendous amount of pillows. If you want to help, get blowing, and make these airbeds look nice and comfy!

The transgate from the standard coach has mysteriously been moved to the sports gym's outer hallway. Who did that? But it makes it easier to bring in the cups of hot chocolate from the kitchens, and for anyone who wants to bring snacks to do so. Take a seat, remember to bring your sleeping bag and whatever else you want. Plushes, your own musical instrument to offer some de-stress medication of your own with a melody.

And there's an area where small incense pots burn away, a gentle mist rising up. It won't heal the mind completely, but it will offer it some peace. And if you're worried about nightmares, a few of Raven's sachets and teas are available.

So come get a mom hug. Come and offer hugs. Just come and get something out of the company, whatever it is. Tidus and Della - and others - will be here to give a hand.

The life you had might've been fake, but the people around you aren't.

((OOC: consider this a mingling post, where everyone is free to tag everyone else! be the comforter, the one offering comfort, both, whatever!))

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"You're worrying about everyone else, it's the only thing you haven't gotten cornered yet." Self-care! Besides which, if his cold, more practical side had any opinion on the matter, being nice simply encouraged people to be more helpful in the future.

Della - he's met her at least over the comms, the duck related to Scrooge. She'd seemed.. highly energetic at least, and mentioned her kids. Woodchucks or something?

But she'd seemed nice. Her offers here were kind. She, like so many others, obviously meant well. "..Ah yes, some people think of it as being trapped here." It's an escape. Isn't it? "Especially if her children wait for her somewhere far away. It would surely be difficult."

Not that he knows personally, he considers himself far too young for that nonsense. If he can't decide most days if he wants to bother with breakfast, never mind what it should be, he's definitely not ready for families!

"Hey, it's nice." Tidus is grinning, amused - but charmed? "Not sure I like the idea being put with the fussy kinds, but I'll take your worry. Thanks."

Teddy cares. Tidus leans back on the airbed he's been sitting on, propping himself by his arms behind him. He doesn't miss the obvious in that remark there, though. Some people think of it as being trapped. But he knows not the sound judging when he asks, just curious:

"You don't mind being here?"

Would a guy who doesn't remember himself mind?

"..You're welcome, I guess." They were all here to relax for a while. Rest, recover, watch other people run about or play games .. honestly someone should have tried to drag a viewer in here or something and move the movies from the ... movie .. car to this one too. It probably would have taken a lot more effort than anyone is actually capable of right now.

DID he mind?

It came with a lot of revelations that he could have certainly lived without. A parade of nothing but anguish and doubt and guilt. Did he, though..

"Nah," Xehanort concludes after a long moment. "If you think about it. The train's giving us all an opportunity we'd have never otherwise had. Sure it comes with risks, but what doesn't? Meanwhile there's millions of worlds.. trillions of people, and we... of all people, we're the ones that get to see it. Touch a strange world. Eat the weird foods of another planet. Breathe air no human being has ever breathed, watch sunsets on beaches no human feet have ever walked."

He leans his head back til it thumps against the wall, considering the far-wall on the other side dully. "It's a bit of a wonder, isn't it? And the train lets us all go sooner or later, this isn't forever. But for that time, those precious few weeks or months.. we can do and see things.. nobody else from our little worlds ever will know."

Buy a viewer/projector and Tidus would do it in a flash. Meet him in the games corner for a butt kicking.

But for the present, he hums some to Xehanort's view; tilting his head against his shoulder, eyes closing, but his voice clear. "It's amazing, when you put it like that. ...It's all some people have," he adds, as if to add credence to the picture painted. "Lot of people can't go home; there's nowhere else for them. If you get to come back from the dead and stay living-"

He opens his eyes. A pause before he admits: "I'd be fine with it, if we had a choice. Give people a choice, and you'd get people clamouring to be a part of it. Dead, alive- plenty out there willing to be a hero for a while and have somewhere to be."

Belong? It might be the better word, but belong doesn't sit well with him, so he doesn't say it.

Sadly Xehanort is more likely to think of science equipment before more interesting things like movie night to go WITH the sleepover.

"I guess I'm so used to not having a choice at all that it doesn't really bother me." There's something in his tone that suggests he does understand Tidus' perspective on it, it's just not one he shares. "But I think somewhere, on other void vessels, people ... must ordinarily be able to choose. Void travel doesn't seem to be spooky and mysterious except to us."

So why didn't THEY get the chance?

There's no conductor, that's why. He's sure of it. "It's silly, I'm sure, but I'm going to try to focus on the more positive parts. Otherwise I'll have to spend too much time thinking about us being kidnapped slaves or some such." There were dead people on board. What did Zagreus think of them? "It's a bit of a dream come true for me if I ignore the nasty parts. Let's make the best of it while we can. Somewhere to go.. or nowhere to go, this is a once in a lifetime trip."

"Sure," he says amicably, a single shake of his head. "I'm not gonna change anyone's mind. We've all got our own stuff." Being dead, having a suckier life where they came from- and what did it matter, anyway? He's been here too long, it's tiring even for him.

He flops onto his back, giving up on just leaning on his arms. "Think of all the stuff you can buy!" "Even stuff from other worlds. Pretty cool, huh?"

Adventure awaits! As long as it doesn't come with the mind numbing horror other people experienced of late, at least. Adventure surely is possible without added trauma, and then it's just exploring and learning and science!

It can't all be bad. Can it?

"There's not a lot I think I need." Buying things! Where would he put it, with the giant cat and the plants and the frickin water fountain taking up 90% of the space in his shared room? "But I've thought about one of those ... big fluffy dogs that people use to feel better, for the train at large. Might be useful, especially something like today. All this.. and a friendly dog."

"A train-sanctioned dog?" Tidus grins, a quirk to it, like it's the first time he's ever heard of such a thing. Which- "Never heard of that. That mean we all need to look after the big guy? I don't think a few people would mind that."

Given the animals already around on the train. They really need to get a pet car, don't they.

Pay for it and then pawn it off on other people entirely? As appealing as the idea might be on the surface, Xehanort's still got a decent sense of responsibility, for better or for worse. "No. If I paid for it, I'd care for it of course. Food, water, cleaning up. But others could enjoy having it around more than I would, for example."

A lot of people here, based on how many noodle-dragon snuggles are happening, would surely like a friendly dog to pet or play with! "Plenty of people have pets. One of my roommates has a cat and has more or less taken over the entire room for their things." He's not holding a grudge. "But it's their pet, which is different than a resource anyone could draw on." Need a cuddle, get a therapy dog! "...Maybe I'm overthinking it a bit."

"Hahaha, hey! Not saying you can't be Mister Responsible for the big girl or guy, but if they're for the train, I bet you're gonna see people spoiling them anyway." He raises his hands in place of a shrug.

"...but also, it sounds like you really want a pet." And his grin widens, while his voice lowers. "That's not a cat. But a dog. A very fluffy big dog."

Compared to the current cabin company of a cat.

"It's okay - your secret's safe with me."

"That's fine. But that's also a different thing than routine care." Especially when it comes time for potty breaks, nobody's gonna be jumping line to take care of that!

DID he just want a pet? He could probably get one if he really wanted to, and though Tidus may be joking, Xehanort takes a moment to actually, seriously consider it. His original desire for a dog had been to put their exceptional noses to work, but it seemed their rainbow foe might not be as much of a future threat as people feared. Did he want one just as a pet? "I like cats just as much," he says eventually, slowly, "When it's my cat."

Someone else's cat is just an obnoxious fuzzball getting hair on his stuff. HIS cat would obviously, be a superior kitty.

Guilty as charged. Tidus isn't going to clear up after a dog that isn't his!

"And why should that guy get to have a cat, and you not a really fluffy dog?" Was the dog mentioned to be fluffy, or just big? The fluffy part is now the important dog factor here. "Makes total sense!"

That Xehanort really wants his own pet.

"But-" but! "--what're you gonna name them? Your dog for everyone."

But especially for Xehanort.

"A desire to actually get sleep instead of animals disagreeing and then having to listen to the complaints of the owner is a good reason." The downside of shared space. It wasn't really viable to add another animal to an already crowded room that's overflowing with other people's belongings.

Personal space happens in OTHER places. Not on the train.

The idea of names draws a shrug. "I haven't thought that far ahead." Names were pretty individual things! "It would be hard to pick out a name without knowing anything about a creature besides its species."

Pahhh, no one likes good reasons, but Tidus won't make a dumb argument about how it does matter, and ask instead: "Do animals even get sent to the same cabin as the owners? What if the dog slept somewhere else?"

Tidus can at least say something about that, than how naming works. He never even owned a goldfish, let alone a bigger pet.

"Is that what that kennel carriage was supposed to be that the train offered?" He did not vote for that one, but he remembered it. "Some effort on its part to try to contain the menagerie?"

Would it even work? How many people would be willing to make their pets sleep somewhere far away from themselves? "All I'm certain of is one of my ... roommates keeps a cat in our quarters, I don't know if everyone does it."

"I mean... I dunno. I guess in their cabins?" Shrug here! "But- you know how we get sent to our cabins at nights, right? Even if we don't want to- I don't know if it's the same for pets."

And not only that... "You don't want pets getting locked in the cabins either, when we go off the train. So... they can't be locked to rooms, right? But then you've got animals wandering around everywhere, and-"

...Wow, Tidus is suddenly really glad he doesn't stay on the train when it's mission time. How does it work for the pets??

This is suddenly an alarming chain of thought. What DID happen to pets when they were gone? Who took care of their feeding and watering? Was it just dumped on anyone who stayed behind, whether or not they agreed? Were there hungry pets waiting in cabins, a week or more alone?

Xehanort's silence stretches on, while he considers this fairly disturbing idea. Did anyone know? He didn't return to his own cabin with cat business everywhere, so..

"I would assume a pet would need the same downtime to adapt to the void too," he begins cautiously, working through an idea bit by bit. "And we've never returned from a mission with starving pets and mess everywhere.."

They're both joined in this very uncomfortable thought, one where Tidus can't immediately attempt to fill in the silence. It's a thought that's going to come back and haunt him, even if for the meantime...

"Er... I'm sure the people with pets know what they do. They've talked about it with other people!" Surely. Right? Right? "I just don't know 'cause I don't have any!"

He waves a hand.

"I'm sure it's fine."

Said in that very 'It's fiiiine, nothing to worry abouuttt' manner. There's got to be a system around!

"I'm going to be thinking about this a lot now." So will Tidus. It's going to be relentless in its hauntings. What DOES happen to pets when they leave? Do they get forced into sleep? DOES ANYONE KNOW?

He's not even sure who he'd ask, he didn't exactly have the most social and engaging relationship wth .. anyone with a pet. "I'm sure it's fine," he echoes, tone totally and utterly unconvinced, but he seems willing to try to pretend. "After all if it was terrible, we'd know, right?"

"Exactly! There'd be poop everywhere!" Hands coming out, gesturing to the gym. Poop everywhere! "And you know, I think most of the animals around here are those pokeymonsters a bunch of people have. They stick them in balls? You know the ones I mean?"

Is sticking animals in balls a new or known piece of information for you, Teddy?

"It would be very disgusting. Nothing's that gross, therefore.." It's a sound theory!

He has never heard of such an improbably nonsense filled idea in his life as putting animals in balls, unless it's hamsters.

"They do what?"

Pokeymonsters. In balls. "Are those ... hamsters of some kind? Small rodents?" What else would be put in a ball and left to do their own thing? The possibility that most pets on the train are small self contained little cages of mice was almost but not quite reassuring.

"Uhhh. Have you seen the thing that looks like a...horse?" Horse! Right! Tidus looks puzzled, squinting to find the word, then proud. "There's one of those, and then there's all the ones Eva has. Your team lead? They're all shapes and sizes, but they can fit them in balls about this big."

Cue him making a fist. That big!

"It's gotta be the same ideas as what I use to put things in and take them out." He raises the wrist with the arms band on it, but just in meaning than to show.

Clearly Xehanort needed to start paying attention to what ELSE is on the train besides people. "... Can't say I've noticed, but I also didn't go looking."

He was going to have to now, someone's managing to fit a horse into a ball.

Magic is very obviously involved, but that wasn't enough detail for him! "Keeping pets in a pocket dimension seems kind of..." Mean. "...Unpleasant, but..." Well hey if it worked! And it wasn't killing anything? "When I can move without falling over, I'm going to find one of these people with large pets in tiny balls and ask to see it. It sounds ... really strange."

But it would also explain why there isn't poop everywhere. Poop stays in the pocket dimension!

Can they poop in the pocket dimension? What happens in the pocket dimension.

But Tidus hums, noncomittal to what's mean or not. He doesn't know pokémon enough to have feelings one way or another, but the creatures never seemed to be having a bad time when he did see them around.

"Pretty useful getting around. As long as it doesn't hurt them? ...I could think of a group of knights who'd have an easier time getting their chocobos around if they had them."

At least, in some situations...

"Chocobos are the ... very large birds used as mounts, right?" He's never seen one by his tone, but he's heard about them!

That would certainly make a cavalry a lot more sneaky. And portable. "..Actually if you think about it, being able to put animals in a ball.. could have a lot of really useful applications. Like sneaking through restricted areas with them." No pets allowed? No problem! It's just a ball, officer!

But if animals could be kept in them.. could people? "I wonder if you could sneak people around the same way."

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