[Kairi still jumps, just a little. She drops the staff to her side and folds her other arm behind her head, grinning in a half-embarrassed kind of way. She laughs.]

Riku! Heh, that's what Samus said. But it's hard when you're just pretending.

[Samus had been far too strong for either of them to consider sparring. Practising with another beginning like - oh, let's say - Xanth could lead to Kairi hurting someone, and she doesn't want that. And beating up ponybees or giant rats just seems mean.]

She didn't get to show me much before she disappeared, anyway.

[And for once, Kairi sounds totally at peace with the boat vanishings. Time heals all wounds, apparently.]