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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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[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]