seasaltkeys | Day 31 Part 2. [Audio/Action]

Okay.

[ She waits for the story, then. ]

I don't remember a whole lot, but I think it must have been after I fought you that I headed back to the World that Never Was, for some reason, but I ended up fighting Riku, and losing.

[He pauses a bit since he's still kind of bitter about that.]

After that, I don't really remember what happened, except that I woke up in Twilight Town, and it was like I'd been there my entire life. And then weird things kept happening to me.

"Weird things"? [ Riku and Roxas fought? It must have been for good reason... ]

Yeah. I didn't know it at the time, but there were...dusks? that showed up and stole all our photos, even the word. And then I kept seeing stuff and time kept glitching, and no one else was noticing it. And then during the struggle tournament Axel showed up, but I didn't know it was him because my memory had been altered. We ended up fighting.

[And he feels really bad about all of it now]

[ And Axel fighting Roxas. While it does worry her, Xion thinks of a morbid thought about how Axel seems fated to fight his friends. Only briefly, though. She remembers the Dusks, yes. ]

Did you... win against Axel?

Yeah, I did. But that just kept making things weirder. There was a guy in red and Namine was there, and it was like I kept fading in and out, while I kept having dreams about Sora and everything he's done, but I didn't know it was Sora at the time.

The last day was probably the worst.

[ A guy in red... Xion's eyes light up as the image of the man comes up in her head. ] A man in red...

Then what happened on the last day? [ "Last day." Last day, did that mean...? ]

On that last day, I was trying to do things like I usually did, or at least, I thought I usually did, but then when I got to the Usual Spot, it was like I wasn't even there. Hayner, Pence, Olette, they didn't even see me. And then Axel showed up again, and said that he had to destroy me but he didn't want to. And then I went to the mansion and that's when I found out that everything was digital, and that I'd been brought there so that they could wake up Sora.

Right before that happened, I ended up here.

[ They were keeping Sora there... But when he gets to the last bit of his story, she looks up. ]

... I'm sorry all of that happened to you, Roxas.

[Roxas is silent for a bit, looking for the right words]

Why are you sorry?

Maybe if I was there... Or if things had been different... [ Hm, it is difficult to find the right words. But she wishes he'd been treated better. ]

I think that...if you were there, the same thing probably would have happened.

[He's thought about it a lot and there doesn't seem to be a way to make it get better.]

But, that's the past. It doesn't matter here.

[ She nods. ] No, it doesn't. [ Then her head tilts a little. Do people do or say anything to commemorate a year? Only a thought comes to her mind. ]

Congratulations for the year, Roxas.

Thanks Xion. Really.

[There's a pause, and he watches the ocean a bit more.]

I'm hoping for another one.

[ She looks back at the ocean, too, smiling a little. ]

We'll just have to wait and see, huh?

I guess so.

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