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[It's nearly time to leave. Vash is all packed and ready to leave in the next couple days. So he takes a couple hours out of each day before the departure to do some walking down memory lane. Over five years. Never before had he ever stayed in one location for so long since The Fall.

There's the house where he lived with his family. The bakery that gave him so many donuts and he once broke into with an old man and a pirate. Good Spirits where he spent many nights. Seventh Heaven where had some of the best food of his life. He sits at his favorite spot next to the fountain for people watching. So many hours spent here just watching people.

Walking through the forest to remember what the world looks like in green. A quick teleport to the beach to see the ocean on last time. It was still so breathtaking. The smells, sounds, and the magnitude he'll never forget.

He lingers at the flower shop where he got to spend every day surrounded by flowers. He hopes whoever decides to stay will take care of the place. He takes a few of the flowers and presses them into his journal. He tries to use older entries in the hopes he won't pester everyone else with sudden flowers, but today he just really doesn't care too much. He wants to take some of this color back with him to the desert.

Perhaps it will even catch a moment where Vash talks out loud to himself for your character her hear.]

I... I don't want to go.

(OOC: Literally catch Vash ANYWHERE. He will be visiting all locations of Luceti as he tries to remember it all before he has to make a choice to stay or go.)

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Heh, I guess that's true. If you keep working on something eventually happiness will continue. I mean, look at this place. If we had just given up we probably wouldn't be going home in a few days.

Don't say that. Don't you even suggest that we won't go home! Because it's still possible that we can get stuck here forever and get locked up in something else terrible! Do you know how many times I've seen things looking up only to have everything rained on once more?!

[Yeah.]

Ah! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I take it back! I take it all back!

Although, I actually kinda really like rain.

[Pause.]

I was being kind of metaphorical there.

[Vash, you crazy crazy kid.]

Though really... I think the one real benefit of going home is that... it's kind of getting boring here. Everything's all nice and happy and wonderful... and boring.

You think so? I kinda like boring. I've had enough of my share of action I think for this lifetime.

For me, I think it's kind of the opposite. I'm so used to the crazy now that... there's always something still left to do that I want to do.

There's not much here now that's left for me to do, really.

At least... mostly.

Heh, I guess that's part of the joy of being young. So much energy so you need to let it out somehow.

But what do you feel was still left to do here? [Although Vash wonders if he shouldn't bring things like that up right at the end.]

Hey, I'm practically the oldest one of my entire gang of friends. [Except Zuko. And probably Suki.] It certainly helps keep the youthful vibes flowing!

[He pauses a bit. Though actually, he is thankful he's brought it up.]

It's not something that I have much of a choice on, though it's not something I don't have a say in.

I kind of don't know what to do with the relationship I got into whilst I was here.

Ah, I suppose that is a pretty hard one. Because you have a girl waiting for you too, don't you?

Yeah. I resisted really hard looking for another girl here. I mean, I went to the whole Blind Dating thing that went on last year, but... that was just to meet new people, not to find a girlfriend.

It just makes everything that much more complicated. Her world... kinda sucks. I'd rather not see her go back to that.

That's love for you though; it will find you even if you're trying to run from it, it seems.

Ultimately it's up to her, I suppose if she really wants to go home. But maybe if she can't come to yours you could find someone who would take them to theirs.

[There's a small pause as a thought creeps into Vash's head.] Ah, not my world though, it's not that much better probably.

[Oddly enough, that thought hadn't really cropped up in Sokka's mind, and he smiles wanly at it.]

I suppose that is a different option that I had considered. I mean, I suppose she could stay here now since this place doesn't quite suck as badly as it used to, though still...

It's hard trying to make someone happy when you don't know if you can actually make them happy. If that makes sense at all.

[That vague smile disappears at Vash's last comment though.]

You know, from the way some people talk, I guess I should be thankful that I actually like the world I came from.

I think you make perfect sense. When you care about someone it can be hard if you are honestly thinking of the best interest of the one you care about or yourself. You can never tell if you're being blinded or not.

[Vash, however, laughs as Sokka's smile disappears.]

Well, my place may not be so great, but it's home! I have attachments to it.

Yeah, it's true. But at the same time... sometimes I feel like it's also really easy. When you can do something for them, instinct just sort of takes over. You want to help them. It's just in this case... it's not something I have control over. It's how she wants to live her life going forward. And it's just impossible to know.

[Still, there's a hint of a smile, even if it's a sad smile underneath.]

Well at least your world has something of a silver sandwich to it.

[Yes, he's totally making fun of Aang, even if Vash may not get the reference.]

Oohhh. I could really go for a sandwich. [Easily distracted.] Although, not sure I'd want to eat one made with silver.

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