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[Five years, six months and eighteen days. A long time, and yet to actually believe it was over was difficult. Rise was trying hard not to think too much on it. She was ashamed to admit that she had been dreading this day for a long time, despite how she continued to work towards it--she had simply met too many people she had grown close to for it to be considered a happy occasion for her.

Life was life, it continued, and now it was time for all of them to return home. She should at least try to content herself with the fact that she had met them all--that she had met Matt.

Even if she would never see him again.

Rise closed her eyes as the countdown began, unsure of what to expect. When it reached one she felt a strange, uncomfortable sensation in her stomach that went as soon as it had come. Her eyes shot open and she nearly tumbled to the ground but caught herself before she did. She was now in what looked like a very cozy room. Definitely not the Kishin Chamber, but definitely no place she knew.

Stranger yet was Matt was by her side. She blinked a bit--what was going on?]

Matty?

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[The bear responds 'Who'? again and bumps his nose into her. Matt will guide them over to the table and sit Kuma there for now. He'll probably dig something out of the fridge for him to eat.]

[But first! Time to start making the tea.]

[aww, so soft and wet. When they sit down she plays a little with him, but when Matt begins to make tea she's thinking again.

There's something a bitch strange about the resonance--if she could even still call it that, that she got from Matt now. It was still as stronger as ever, perhaps even more so, but something was definitely different.

She's remembering those voices, and the possibility of BREW acting on their wish to never be apart]

Hey Matty? About those voices...

[she continues playing with Kuma, not taking her eyes off them]

[There's an abrupt stop in his movements before he continues on again with the tea making.]

... They're the same voices that I hear, I think.

[thoughtful pause]

So that means I'm also Canada now? Can there be more than one person as a country?

There are two Italies, though they represent separate parts of Italy.

[Pauses thoughtful, somber.]

If...you are- I mean. If ...did you ...get any information along with the voices? Strange facts you didn't know before?

[she takes a moment to think, closing her eyes. With Matt so close the voices are very faint, but since she's reaching out to them--]

[Bit of information--populace, demographics, geography, history--she has to close her mind off to them all as they start to come in quickly. She shakes her head, to clear it, then nods. All the information she got was somehow related to]

Ontario. I suddenly know a lot about it.

[Nods slightly.]

A province.

[Pauses to consider this.] It's where we are now.

The home of my capital. My heart.

[At that she actually pauses playing with Kuma to turn and look to Matt. Her smile is actually rather shy at that, but definitely happy before she bashfully looks away]

Ottawa.

[Funnily enough, this is easier to deal with than the idea of not returning home. If she really is here for good, she'd rather it be as a part of Canada. One of the few good things she had thought about being separated from Matt was that at the very least he would remember her young, energetic and healthy. At the very least this way, he wouldn't have to watch her grow old, and eventually die]

Do you think it was because of BREW? Or maybe because we've resonated?

[The shy look is returned and he glances at the tea.]

I'm not sure. Maybe a little of both.

[she gets up and slowly trails over to him, giving him a gentle hug from behind]

Mmm. I guess in the end it doesn't matter much. [places a small kiss to his shoulder blade]

You'll have to teach me how to--I mean, what it even means to be a representation.

[Goes quiet.

Then softly, barely above a whisper he asks,]

Are you really okay with this?

[...]

I don't know.

I'm going to miss them. All of them. Granny, Souji, Naoto and all the others. And living forever. It just--I don't know. I really don't.

[she tightens her embrace a little]

But I do know that I'm happy--so, so so happy, that I still have you.

[Shakes his head.] It isn't ...living forever. Just a very long time I--.

...Am I really worth all of that?

[she doesn't answer right away, just quietly turns him around]

Matt.

[He isn't looking at her. He wants to believe that this is the happy ending. That him and Rise could live for ages to come, together and happy.

But it feels wrong to think that when she was ripped from her world to be in his, and he's lost nothing of value for it all.]

[she lifts a hand to her face, to try and make him look at her]

Matt.

[the other hand goes up too so she's cupping his face]

If you weren't I don't think we would be in this situation to begin with

I love you.

[reaches up and clasps his hand over one of hers.]

[A part of him still wants to protest but he drops it in favor of nodding.]

I love you, too. [So much. So so much.]

[It wasn't going to be easy. It was easy for her to keep her calm now, with Matt so close to her, but she knew there would be times when the pain of losing them would be strong, so strong that even he wouldn't be able to drive it away but]

[But her words weren't spoken simply to cheer Matt up, they were truth.

She could accept this. And perhaps immediately, but both time and Matt would wash away any pain that would come]