pullsheavendown | ♚ IC Contact for Sirens' Pull ♚

Hi, Roxas.

[This is not good. The embarrassment is already sort of seeping through.]

I... um. I just got off the phone with Terra.

[... There's a pause here. She's not sure what she expects him to say, but she's blanking.]

[For him, it's awkwardness that's palpable.]

You did?

[Terra knows just about everything about him. Definitely more than most people. That doesn't mean he'd share everything, though. ...right?]

Did he tell you I'm not Ven?

... Yes. He did. Everything you said, Terra confirmed.

[Feeling another one of those ill-timed pauses coming on. Time to skip right to the sincerity.]

Roxas... I'm sorry.

[He relaxes a little at that. It sounds like Terra handled it okay.]

It's okay. I'm pretty used to people not expecting the two of us to look alike. Terra didn't believe me, either, when we first met.

Even so. That was very rude of me.

[It's a little hard for her to imagine what Terra's reaction could have been like. ...]

Is there anything I can do to make it up to you? [Sounding rather hopeful.] Anything at all?

Don't worry about it.

[Stalking. His reaction was stalking. Also some shouting.]

Just don't hang up on me again? There's really not anything to make up for.

But you can ask any questions you have. Like I said...I'm pretty used to this by now.

[o Terra. Mumbling one more 'sorry' for good measure at the mention of hanging up.

Rude, rude, rude.]

I can assure you -- that won't be happening again.

[But ... questions?]

Well ... I am curious about a few things, but ...

[Is it appropriate to ask? ... He's seriously okay with this? Right off the bat?]

It can wait. I'm sure we'll be seeing each other in person soon.

All right. We definitely will—I hang out with Ven and Terra a lot, actually, but I knew you'd be settling in...

[He trails off, a little unsure now. Patience is good, but he knows for a fact how many things she must want to ask—he's been through it before—and leaving her with nothing yet seems wrong.]

Um. Aqua? I'm not sure what else Terra said, but we don't know for sure why Ven and I look the same. We tell people we're brothers, or they assume on their own.

And you aren't his Nobody.

[As a reminder to herself just as much as it is a confirmation for him.]

... Terra told me.

Ah.

[Right. He would have had to give her some explanation. Maybe it's even good that she already knows about Nobodies. That conversation is always uncomfortable.]

It's got to have something to do with Sora. Some kind of connection between their hearts. I'm just not sure what that is.

[Because obviously Terra would have explained Sora, too. Obviously.]

[Yes. Because Terra's explanations are always extremely multi-dimensional, thorough, and complete. It was a very long conversation. Almost three whole minutes.]

Sora? But...

[You can hear the frown in her voice.]

What does Ven have to do with Sora?

[ And what does Sora have to do with you? ]

[Roxas goes silent for nearly half a minute. Terra had explained Nobodies but left that out? That was like trying to read a book that was missing half its pages.

Which wasn't so different from Roxas, if he thought about it.]

I'm his Nobody.

[... Silence.]

[Waiting...waiting...]

Aqua?

[She almost sounds hoarse when she finally does manage to formulate a response.]

... ... How?

[The uncertainty in his voice is growing steadily, along with his discomfort.]

Didn't Terra tell you?

Edited 2011-11-29 20:20 (UTC)

[A little too flatly --]

No. He didn't.

[A little too defensively]

Then he probably didn't think it was his story to tell.

Sora lost his heart. I was...born, or created. Whatever you want to call it. But I'm not Sora; I don't have any memories from before it happened.

[No, he most certainly did not. Neither did Ven...
Aqua's voice softens, but loses none of its harshness.]

I was ... asking about Sora.

[Replicas. Nobodies. How many Keyblades are in Siren's Port anyway? Shall she just take a consensus? Is there a Replica of Ven somewhere out there? Just how much has she forgotten?]

How did Sora lose his heart?

[This definitely isn't Roxas' story. And yet...it is.]

Kairi had already lost hers when their island fell to the darkness. But it was with his the whole time.

So he [I] turned the Keyblade on himself to free it and lost his [mine] when he did.

Or so I'm told. Like I said, I don't remember that.

Edited 2011-11-29 23:50 (UTC)

Kairi, too...?

[So ... Not only has Kairi departed from Radiant Garden -- why is still unclear -- but after she found her way to Sora and Riku's world, she lost her heart.

And the island ... That's gone as well.]

So, then... Where is her Nobody?

Namine is here, too. She lives with me and Joe and Xion.

There's a lot of us from the same world. Or worlds...you know what I mean.

[Namine? ... The same Namine who'd asked about magic?
... The quiet thud that follows is her sitting down, not hitting the floor.]

Ah ... Yes. I suppose that makes sense.

[They're fine now. Whatever happened, Sora and Kairi are both ...]

Edited 2011-11-30 03:26 (UTC)

[What was that sound?]

Um...are you okay?

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