fridgeninja | PRISMATICA INBOX

I practice a lot. Mostly it turns out all right.

[He gestures at the plates in turn.]

Sugar cookies, chai cookies, snickerdoodles. You should try one of each.

[Hopefully that will help settle or soothe what's disturbing her. At least, it's a start.]

[and so she does, taking one of each, and.

listen, table manners are for people who aren't Soras. She's just gonna sort of. HOMPHGOMPH and they're gone.]

Those were tasty... You definitely are good! Can you teach me sometime?

I'd be happy to try, anyway.

[He hasn't done that much teaching before, but it sounds like fun.]

Anyway. Here's the living room and the dining room. There are three bedrooms and a big bathroom downstairs, and a little bathroom up here on the right. Straight back from the living room through the patio door is the patio, the hot tub, and a little back yard with a nice tree.

Oh, wow... This place is so cool. How many people live here with you?

[She's just sort of... awed? People can have their own houses that aren't just what they got? It's weird.]

It was Chie and Yosuke, but Yosuke's moving out now. I guess we'll have someone new in that bedroom soon; we're still on the main apartment list.

Your friend's moving out? But new people are coming in? It sounds like you're busy, here...

In general, maybe. Not today.

Let's take some cookies out back, and we can talk.

Right...

[She looks down, face falling a bit at the memory of what she came here to talk about.

At least another cookie helps that part.]

This place is really pretty, huh? Your house, and... All of of this world.

It is. I've been enjoying the chance to explore it...

Yeah...

It's probably the prettiest world I've ever visited.

[just. gonna start with that bit. she's been to a bunch of worlds, it's fine.]

... How many worlds have you visted?

It's my fourth. Or maybe third and a half.

-- You have?!

[That gets her to sit up more sharply, paying attention, wide-eyed.]

I didn't know- I thought most people weren't allowed to visit other worlds? We did it as part of our missions as the Organization, but...

This world; the last world I was in, and then my home world and the Television World, which were... linked.

The last world was like this one - people wound up there without choosing to go there - but it wasn't... it wasn't as nice.

[It wasn't nice at all.]

I didn't know there were other worlds like this...

[Her shoulders slump a bit.]

I never found any worlds like that before. But I didn't get to go to many. In my time with the first Organization, I only got to see a few, and then only a couple more in the true Organization...

The Organization?

Yeah... Organization XIII.

[She looks down.]

Made of Nobodies... People without hearts.

... I'm not sure what that means. But you don't have to explain, if you don't want to.

[His voice is careful, uncertain. He can see this is a sensitive subject, but... Xion seems like a person with a heart to him. A big, soft heart. So... what does it mean?]

[She nods. It's... not something she wants to talk about, much. Not really. But...

She holds out her hand, and the Kingdom Key appears in a flash of light.]

Have you ever met someone here who has one of these?

[His eyes go wide, with surprise but not really alarm, and he doesn't move, studying it closely.]

No. I'd remember.

[It vanishes again fairly swiftly.]

Some of them look pretty different... But they're called Keyblades. Only those chosen by it can wield it.

... Except for me. Only me.

... Why?

[His voice is very gentle, his tone neutral but curious. She has to get through this in her own way, to say the things that are weighing on her. He's going to do his best to stay out of her way and just be... accepting, and encouraging, when she seems to need it.]

Because... I was made from someone else. I'm... not real. I'm a Replica. I was just made out of Sora's memories, and I was only made to take the rest, and all his power.

[It's not entirely right. She knows better. Now, she's not just a puppet. She's her own person, with her own life...

But, even so, she can't help it. Her fear is running wild.]

[He reaches over and pokes a finger into her shoulder.]

... You feel real to me.

And none of us can control how we were made.

My heart was put into this body, but...

... Once, before, I did absorb all of Sora's memories. His memories, his power, everything. And when that happened, I even became him. My body was his.

[She grips her sleeve tightly.]

And then... While I wasn't myself, I had to be... destroyed. To save Sora and Roxas. To save everyone. So all of this... Waking up as other people... I'm scared.

That sounds scary enough to go through even without this.

[He reaches over to take her hand and lace his fingers through hers.]

But, I can tell you... I think it only happens to people who go down to the festival?

And even when I looked like someone else, I was still me. Chie was still her. We just looked different.

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