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[Well! Riku sounds rather flustered for once!]

Just whose great idea was this?

Oh, what, you can't deal with the truth for a change? Can't deal with someone who won't lie to make you feel like a better person?

Stop it!

Or what? Are you gonna--

[The rest of that threat doesn't make it to the network--Riku's muted the comm. He turns it back on a moment later, sounding both irritated and resigned.]

Is anybody else noticing something strange going on?

[Well, that's -one- way to put it.]

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And your princess returns. It looks like you'll get a second chance at making the rest of the ship talk. But I know you. You're too weak to take advantage of this opportunity, aren't you? You're just gonna let it slide past like every other chance you get.

That's enough out of you!

[Riku swings up from the bed in one fluid movement, crossing the room to open the door back up for Kairi. There's one good thing to this--now he'll be able to stuff the towel back under the door to drown out his shadow without worrying about the door being impossible to open!

He opens the door, giving her a half-grin.]

I think it's getting worse.

Oh, sorry.

[She darts inside the room and pushes the door closed behind her, trying to catch a glimpse of Riku's face, to gauge his mood before they're left in the dark again. He's grinning. Well, whatever it said can't have been too bad.]

What'd it say?

It's not your fault.

[As soon as the door closes, Riku's shoving the towel into the gap again, cutting off the last remnants of light.]

--too much of a pansy to make her y--

[And then the light is gone, and Riku actually gives a short laugh of relief. He feels sorry for the people who haven't figured out a way to deal with their shadows. He knows he'd go crazy if he had to listen to it constantly for the next however-long.]

Anything it possibly could, whether it made sense or not. It's just becoming obnoxious background noise by this point.

Hmmm...

[Kairi touches two fingers to her lips as she mulls over that. Was Riku the "pansy?" Was she the "Her?" What couldn't he make her?

It doesn't matter. It's just obnoxious background noise.]

Well, I got your gift!

[And reaching for where he was last standing, Kairi finds his shoulder. She holds the gift out in the dark between them but stops short of finding and dropping it in his hand. He won't be able to see it, but handing it to him when he hasn't accepted it doesn't feel right.]

[Good guess, Kairi! You might be on to something there.

Riku doesn't have to hide his smile in the dark, but he -does- wonder how Kairi plans to hand it off to him when they can't see. But then her hand finds his shoulder, and he reaches up to take it in his own.]

What is it? Can you put it in my hand?

[Sorry, Kairi, he's not taking any risks tonight!]

Sure. It's-...

[She's smiling. She presses the small gift into Riku's palm. It's a star shape made of five pieces of leather, each cut and shaped like a thalassa shell. She's rimmed the edge with thin metal wire and in the centre there's a closed Pippi shell. The whole thing has been hand-stitched and in the dark, Kairi hope Riku can tell what it is.]

You remember that charm I made on the island, before the storm?

Well, I made you one. I couldn't find any thalassa shells, even when we made port, but it's yours.

[She holds onto his hand just long enough to make sure he won't drop the gift, and then let's go.]

Even if we can't change things, or something else happens, at least this way we won't forget, right?

[Riku runs a hand over the charm, feeling it as she speaks. It's star-shaped, soft, leather, and with what she says next, he knows what it must be like.

It's just like her lucky charm. Just like the one she had at home.

There's another grin on his face. Even with everything else that's been said and done this night, this makes him happy, makes up for anything else.]

Yeah... Thanks, Kairi.

[For a moment more he stands still, the charm in his hand, but... that's not enough. He reaches out to the lightswitch.]

I'm going to turn on the lights for a second. I want to actually see it.

[Click.]

NICE GOING PRINCESS. NOW HE'S GONNA THINK THAT HE'S--

[CLICK. FASTEST CLICK EVER. Riku hadn't thought about how turning on the lights would make a much stronger shadow than the faint one from the dim light from the door--it had been -loud-, and it had come -very- close to saying something that would have doomed him. If you were looking, Kairi, you could probably see it on his face, the way it went from looking happy and peaceful to panicked and horrified in approximately two seconds!]

On second thought, maybe I'll get a better look at it later.

[Kairi stares into the blackness, stunned for all of five seconds. Oh she had expected a response; Riku had given warning. But his face! It was rare to see Riku even flinch, let alone panic. But that had definitely been panic on his face, and at something so loud and obnoxious after he had looked so happy.

Kairi tries to stifle her giggles but doesn't entirely succeed.]

Going to think what Riku, hmm?

Going to think that maybe I can trust you not to stab yourself with a leather needle, maybe.

[Because if she thinks he's going to tell her what the rest of that sentence would have been, she has got another. thing. coming. Riku rests one hand at his hip, smirking his best at her. He knows how to distract her from here.]

I have a better question. Are you laughing at me, Kairi?

[Kairi's fists immediately go to her hips, an indignant reply on the tip of her tongue. She helped build the raft just fine; she could handle a leather needle.

But Riku was still talking, and immediately Kairi thought better of it. Instead she grinned, her reply unabashedly teasing.]

Hmm... Maybe.

[Good, 'cause he'd only said it to distract her, anyways! He's got more faith in Kairi than that.]

Hmm. Come here for a second.

[But he's not waiting for her to agree; he's reaching out to find her, carefully, almost tentatively, reaching for where she'd been in the dark with the intention of finding her shoulder.]

Hmmm? What for--

[Too late, before she can finish, his hand falls on her shoulder. Kairi wastes precious seconds on indecision; Should she try to slip away or not?]

[TOO LATE NOW! With a laugh, Riku's going to make to pull Kairi to him, dropping the charm she gave him into his pocket so that he can muss her hair with his free hand. It's -almost- a noogie, but there's not as much force behind it as he would have used on say, Sora, and Kairi could probably pull away without much difficulty at all--after all, he's only playing!]

Still laughing now?

AH! Riku!

[With her hair in disarray, she does stop laughing, but it's still there just beneath her words.

It really isn't all that difficult to pull free from Riku's hold. Kairi stumbles back and, disoriented as she is, smacks her shin on the bed frame.]

Ow!

[She throws out a hand to steady herself and her fingers close around the softness of a down pillow. Without a second thought, she hefts it, aiming right for she's almost sure Riku had been only moments before.]

[Riku sobers up when he hears Kairi hit herself, reaching out to find her again.]

Hey, you o--

[Only then he gets a faceful of pillow, and Riku's back to spluttering again!]

Now you've done it!

[He grabs for the pillow blindly, not even sure what he's going to do when he finds her. But the first thing he's gotta do is get her "weapon" away from her!]

[Kairi bursts into a fit of giggles once more. The pillow connects again - though whether it's with Riku, the wall or some furniture, Kairi can't tell - before catching on something.

Kairi tugs at it, trying to pull it loose. Has- Has Riku caught it? She tugs again.]

[The pillow -does- hit him once more, but then Riku manages to get a hold on it! He tugs back on it when Kairi pulls, but that's not his main target. Instead he reaches out, dropping his free hand on top of her head--not mussing her hair, not pushing her or pulling in any direction, just dropping and resting on top of her head.

And then he lets his hand drop off to one side, tugging at her hair.]

Give up yet?

[There's a moment, when Riku's hand is resting on her head, where she stands perfectly still, not sure what's going to happen next.

And then he pulls her hair.]

Hey!

[Immediately she pushes, shoving pillow and all toward Riku's chest.]

No way!

[Luckily Riku knows this room like the back of his hand--and the first thing he'd done after he'd found out that he wouldn't be leaving the ship any time soon was rearrange everything for maximum space. So he steps backward with the push, allowing her to drive him backwards but -pulling- the pillow after him, trying to tug Kairi off balance.]

All right, then--you asked for it!

[It works. She stumbles forward, but goes with the motion. As it adds to her momentum, she makes a grab for Riku's shoulder.]

You can't scare me, Riku!

[Unfortunately, she is now completely disoriented. The fact that she has no idea what she's pushing Riku towards doesn't cross her mind; she's going to pull his hair!]

Who said I was trying to scare you?

[Riku knows that if they go too far back they'll hit the wall, but he doesn't plan on letting them go far enough for that to be a problem. He grabs for Kairi's hand on his shoulder and twists to one side. He's kneeling already as he twists, dropping to one knee and trying to pull Kairi down with him, letting go of the pillow so that he can catch her on the way down, arm wrapping around her waist to steady her.

If all goes as planned she'll wind up on her back on the floor, while Riku's kneeling to one side of her.]

[Already off-balance as she is, it doesn't take much for Kairi to fall. She hits the floor perhaps a little harder than Riku intended and it happens so fast that she doesn't know exactly how. But he can see neither her wince nor her surprise, and the next second she's pulling her hand free of his, reaching up and tugging his hair, hard.]

Then what are you trying to do?

[Whoa, Kairi, that was almost a very bad thing. Riku's arm is still wrapped around her waist from trying to keep her from falling too heavily, and the hair pull just brings him even closer to her. But luckily nothing happens, and Riku grins at her in the dark.]

Isn't it obvious? I'm trying to win.

[And he reaches out to tap her on the forehead!]

Heh.

[It's strange, hearing someone's voice from above you in the dark.]

Okay. You win.

[It's an easy concession, and a moment later Kairi goes to sit up-

SMACK.]

Ow!

[Pain throbs to life and immediately Kairi's hand goes to hold her head where she'd hit it on... Riku's? She hadn't realized he was that close. She rolls aside, still only half sitting up. And then softly, she starts to giggle.]

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