fearless_leader | 6th Kata [Written/Action]

[Shredder and Karai are both gone.. He's glad for it. At least he no longer has to wonder when the Saki was going to make his move. Or try to figure out what he was up to. But on the other side of it. He's disappointed that Karai is gone. Near the end it looked like she was starting to see why he kept trying to get her to switch sides. Seemed to be seriously considering it. But now...now it all meant nothing. It's another missed opportunity. But he hopes there might be more. Even if the chances of her showing up again were slim. But at least he also didn't have to deal with the Malnosso deciding to dig up old feelings anymore.

He'll be out at the memorial garden briefly. Adding something to remember Karai, at least. Sometime after that he'll send a filtered message, when he sits down to send it..]

[Written/Filtered 100% to Ami.]
Hello Ami. I was wondering if you've talked to anyone about that group we talked about.
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[Once that's done, he'll close the journal. He'll be out in the woods. He's been trying to contact Hyt, the light spirit, before it gets too cold out. Even knowing he's the hardest to contact out of all of them.

Eventually he'll head home though, turning the route into a training run.]

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[Even so, Robert does startle a little - he hadn't been expecting to be approached.

Leo's voice is unmistakable though, and so Robert glances up at him with a small, if sad, smile.]

Hello, Leonardo. ... Have you... come here to pay respects to someone...?

[... He is, vaguely, wondering if it has to do with Oroku Saki and Oroku Karai being sent home - but he doesn't quite ask aloud. His eyes might do that for him, though.]

Uh, yeah. To Karai, we were once friends. [And allies.]

Nothing fancy.

[He honestly had no clue what to put there, except flowers.]

[Well, that answers that question. Maybe Karai wasn't as bad as Robert had thought.]

... I am sorry that... circumstances went the way they did...

...

Perhaps she will return, one day. [He traces a finger idly across Mike's marker.] ... I hope others will, too... despite knowing it is selfish of me.

It can't be helped. If the roles were switched, I'd probably do the same as she did. [It's the way they were brought up. To obey their master and father. Whether he was an evil overlord or not.]

Perhaps. [He looks to the plots for his brothers with a sigh.]

I don't know what I want more. Them to be here, or for them to stay home. [One part of him wanted his family to all be here, together, complete. But the other is thankful he no longer has to worry about them getting killed or injured.]

[He nods, slowly. It's difficult to see other peoples' perspectives, but if he tries...]

... In the case of Vivi, I... I know I would w-welcome her back here with open arms...

... but I know she... she should be safe. With her mother. [His voice hitches just a moment.]

[He nods.]

Yeah, I know they're safe at home, but a part of me wishes our family was complete.

[Rather abruptly:] I... sometimes feel more a part of your family than... than I feel with my own.

[... It's been such a long time that he could relate to his parents the way he relates to Leo and Don. ... Or even Splinter.]

...

I wish they... were here too. Even if Raphael despised me...

I'm kind of wary of their reactions to it when they do come back.

[Come from a world where they're hopelessly single, and find their brother noit only taken but by a guy. Yeah, that won't be awkward at all.]

If they were to forget, you mean...? [It makes him wince to think about. Yeah, it would definitely be uncomfortable, to have to explain everything again - not just that he's Don's partner, but also that he lives with them.

...

Not awkward in the least.]

Yeah. It is a possibility after all.

[He knows he was here once, but he doesn't remember it. He kind of wishes he could know what the other him knew.]

... I... still wish I understood the mechanism by which we were drawn here. [Robert traces a finger idly around the leaves of a freshly-misted flower.] It seems that, at some points, different multiversions of people are taken...

... but there is never any sort of corollary as to when, or why...

I'm starting to think they bring people and take them just to mess with our emotions.

Well... it is not known if the actual bringing of people to this world is deliberate. The consensus seems to be that it is a natural phenomenon, of sorts...

... But the sorting of individuals into each colony here seems to be. [Quietly:] According to that "commandant" individual, we... are not the only "region" under jurisdiction...

Yeah, that last couple of drafts have given me that impression too. So there's the chance that they are on this world, just not in this enclosure.

[That's not a great thought either, and might not even be true. But he wouldn't put it past this place.]

I... would hope not. But yes, it is possible. [It's possible that others are there too, as much as it hurts Robert to think of someone like Ingrid or Vivi being in another enclosure, suffering - without him, or so he thinks selfishly - and alone.]

... I wonder what the other regions are like...

[Leo's silent for a minute, eyes closed as he pushes the thought down. He sighs, he doesn't need to add more stress. But it's a possibility, it's not like any of them have been there.]

I know where some of the drafts have been. Like farmlands, and recently the rain forests. But aside from that..

... We know so little. So painfully little. And... the few opportunities we have to learn more are... hidden, or squandered...

[Robert hunches his shoulders slightly, gnawing fiercely at his lip. The orange petals of the flower he was tending to wave slightly as he inspects the stem.]

Perhaps one day we will... learn more.

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