[OPEN] You and Me We're a Miracle

[thislittlelightofmine]

Who: Hikari Yagami thislittlelightofmine (formerly givesalittlewhistle & OPEN
When: OOC: August 1st, IC: August 16
Where: Cerealia
What: Hikari returns from her canon update, having just escaped from the strange, new World calling to her...back to another strange, not-so-new World still keeping her from Home. And, boy, did she pick a great time to do so!
Rating/Warning: Eleven year old with Dark Issues

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[Hikari arrived just in time for the Darkness to hit. Because of course.]

[Her heart was pounding in her chest. Her mind racing. She looked all around her, blinking several times in order to process what she was seeing. All this...this wasn't Home. This wasn't even the Dark Ocean. The lights had gone out, yes, but...]

[A city. She was in a city.]

[Cerealia]

[The name echoed in her mind like remnants of a bad dream. One she had yet to fully awaken from. Combined with the exhaustion from not having gotten a decent night's sleep in several day's time--]

...Takeru-kun?

[The first name she called for. Because he had been right there beside her. He'd crossed Worlds to come get her, and he'd been with her as they floated upward--him on Pegasusmon, and her on Angewomon.]

Hikari!

[She turned at the sound of her name, letting out no small sigh of relief as she dropped to her knees. Smiling as her digimon partner scampered over to her. Looking similar confused and uncertain at their predicament.]

Hikari...what's happening? Where are we?

[The girl--now all of 11 years old--glanced up with a distant expression. It had taken her a moment, but the realization was beginning to sink in. Memories, though distant, slowly returning.]

We're back, Tailmon.

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[thislittlelightofmine]

[Hikari. Without the honorific.]

[It took her a second to adjust hearing her name, and only her name, from someone who wasn't the digimon or her brother. Then...as she stood up and turned towards its source, and got a good look at the face behind it...for a second, she looked confused. Then she remembered.]

Ah! Han-san...

[notsosolo]

I see you caught up to Takeru.

[Honorifics are... not so much a thing in Basic]

[thislittlelightofmine]

I...what?

[Misinterpreting his words, she glanced around. Darting her head from side to side in search of her best friend. Thinking that, by caught up to, he meant literally. That she had found him.]

I don't see him.

[notsosolo]

No, he's not with me.

[That's accompanied by a worried frown. What did she come back out of?]

You're about the same age again.

[thislittlelightofmine]

[Again, at first, she didn't realize.]

Of course we're the same age. Why would--

[Then it clicked.]

...there was a time. Here. [Memories slowly coming back to her. It had only been, what, a month or two's time, but...] Takeru-kun...was suddenly three years older, wasn't he? Just...just like me.

[notsosolo]

Not all that long ago, for me. You've only been gone about a week on this end.

[Obviously longer for her. Years longer.]

[thislittlelightofmine]

...just me?

[She was trying to remember. Takeru...had already "come back" before she left. And...both their brothers had been here too, hadn't they?]

[notsosolo]

Just you. Taichi and Takeru are still here. But Yamato hasn't reappeared.

[That one's looking a little more longterm. Hopefully there's nothing about him that means his vanishing caused him harm]