[Kairi hears the mattress creak above her and to the left. She nods, and then shakes her head, forgetting for a moment that it's dark and Riku can't see her. Riku's questions throw her, not because she isn't expecting them, but because he's still talking as though what has happened is in the future and will happen again.
Kairi's lost track of the number of times she's promised him and herself that it won't.]
His name's Ansem, Sora said. He said you fought over the keyblade too. And when he won, you disappeared. The next time he saw you, you were someone else. I don't know what happened after that. He went back to Hollow Bastion to find you and-...
I stayed behind.
[She can't keep the brittle edge out of her voice. She had accepted it, at the time, that she must stay. But after today's events, the memory bites at her, that she couldn't be there. She doesn't know what happened.]
I didn't see you again. I got pulled into a dark abyss, and then all the worlds were released from darkness. And... Well I forgot a lot of things for a while.
I didn't forget you. No-one did. But... I don't know what happened.
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Date: 2010-10-23 03:28 pm (UTC)Kairi's lost track of the number of times she's promised him and herself that it won't.]
His name's Ansem, Sora said. He said you fought over the keyblade too. And when he won, you disappeared. The next time he saw you, you were someone else. I don't know what happened after that. He went back to Hollow Bastion to find you and-...
I stayed behind.
[She can't keep the brittle edge out of her voice. She had accepted it, at the time, that she must stay. But after today's events, the memory bites at her, that she couldn't be there. She doesn't know what happened.]
I didn't see you again. I got pulled into a dark abyss, and then all the worlds were released from darkness. And... Well I forgot a lot of things for a while.
I didn't forget you. No-one did. But... I don't know what happened.