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[When the video clicks on today, Asami is sitting at a desk at what appears to be her work. It's clear that she doesn't usually use a desk, however, as it's clearly not set up to be an office job. But she's grabbing a few things, and she thought it would be best to do this while she has a moment of downtime.]

Hello again, everyone. [She considers saying something about how busy everything was last month, but others have shared that sentiment. Besides, running around with Team Avatar means she's used to it.] I've already ... mentioned something like this before, but I wanted to say that there was a group like the Hornets back in my world. They felt that changes needed to occur, and they went about it in the most violent manner possible. Seeing it again, hearing their rationales, was ... hard for me. [Though the reason why isn't entirely clear, she's not going to go into it. Not here, not publicly like this.]

But what I've learned from extremist groups like that is that we have to look at their pain and their fears and see what we can do. It doesn't mean that what they think is correct. They went about it in the worst way possible. But I do think that we have a responsibility to help make this world better and safer. I'm no hero, and I'm not really interested in that, but I've decided to dedicate myself to bettering this world either through infrastructure or supplying some of the best hovercars available. Admittedly ... I haven't decided yet. [She gives a sheepish smile here.]

Until I do, I'm going to help out with Heropa. The city doesn't look so good right now, and I'm going to be helping out on weekends to try to help set things right. That's something I can start with, anyway. I'd love some help with it, too. Just contact the native citizens who're involved with clean up, and they're willing to put you to work. [Of course, she knows some people will do things independently, which is fine, too. But this is how she's chosen to go about it.]

Other than that, here's to hoping things are better in the future. [It's an empty hope, most likely. The world moves and changes all the time, after all.]

[ooc: I have put up a log for some of the clean up activities!]

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I... well, it wasn't only the darkness that destroyed the world. In the darkness, the Heartless live, right? So they took the hearts of the people there, and the darkness itself stole the heart of the world.

What are heartless, exactly?

I've heard them described as "darkness given a form and made real". They're monsters that inhabit the Realm of Darkness in my world.

We have dark spirits in our world, but they have often been sabotaged to be that way.

Really? Heartless are... well, in general, they're not all that aggressive. They're made of darkness, but that doesn't mean they're evil either. But then, some guys did experiments on the naturally-occuring ones. We call those Purebloods. The ones that came out of the experiments, though, those are called Emblem Heartless. They've got a mark on their bodies as an identifier. Those ones seek out hearts actively. So I guess your dark spirits and mine are... similar, in a way.

I wonder if we could identify the spirits in some way, but I'm not as spiritual as some of my friends. They would be able to answer that more clearly than I can.

The way they're sabotaged is by negative emotions, negative circumstances ... Sometimes, they can't help that they become that way, and it makes them spiral out of control. Part of why I had to redesign my city back home was because we needed to adjust its infrastructure so that humans and spirits could live side by side there.

I see. So in that case, it's kind of sad, isn't it? Unlike the Heartless, the spirits sound like they're sentient. That's nice of you to do that for them, too.

Oh, yes, they are sentient. I guess that would be the difference between the two.

Yeah. Your world sounds really neat, Asami.

I wish there was a chance that you could see it. But I guess of anyone here, you're the one who's the most likely to do so.

I'm really curious about these small worlds, too. It's one thing to imagine them, but another to see them.

Yeah, I guess so, aren't I? And Roxas, I guess. [Though he's not sure what would happen if Roxas were to leave this world.]

They're pretty neat. Part of it is because they're all so different, you know? And the same rules don't always apply. Like, the world I came from has sunset and sunrise, but some worlds are constantly nighttime or daytime. Twilight Town is always sunset, hence the name.

And I bet they have really unique culture. One of the things I've found is that the culture in my world is far less homogenized than the one here. I always thought that it was always so ... different, but I saw that I was wrong.

Then again, if a world could be that small and be different even in a "tiny" place, that could really be fascinating, too.

Hm...yeah, I guess. Like, there's one where most people wear something similar to kimono, and there isn't any electricity. But my world and Twilight Town have similar levels of technology. And then another world I visited was a castle where the denizens were cursed to be inanimate objects. Every world is different.

... Were you able to help them?

Uh, not exactly. Their curse... they're kind of just caught in the crossfire of someone else's curse. The prince who rules the castle they work in, he was cursed by an enchantress, and all his servants too. So it's up to him to break it.

Then I hope that he was able to.

Yeah. I hope he did, too. It... seemed like a long shot, but I think he could do it if he tried hard enough.