Open Interaction Post!

[chakramkeyblade]

[Permanent, open interaction post for Lea (and Axel). Let me know if you'd prefer me to do a starter, or just jump in with whatever!]

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[cageunemptied]

[And she listens, just as if she was listening to one of Ansem the Wise's tales. She watches his face, his actions, and while she can tell she's not getting the whole story, she can also tell that he's regretful.

She holds back a "How could you?" directed at all of them, but it's in her eyes, for a moment.]

I can't say I understand how this happened, but I'm glad you told me. Thank you.

[But that still doesn't explain how she ended up the way she did, or why she hadn't aged in all this time (and Dilan, too, looks exactly the same as he always has). It doesn't explicitly the sneaking suspicion that all this somehow includes her. But that can wait.]

Where are the others?

[chakramkeyblade]

[It's a look he can't stand. They feel bad enough on their own, they don't need her judging them, too.]

That's what happens when you start playing around with darkness. Sooner or later you get burned. They just took seven more of us down with them.

Dilan's asleep, obviously. Even's probably in the library. Aeleus is out doing patrols, and Ienzo's crunching numbers and trying to get what he can from Ansem's database. As for the others...no clue. Xigbar and Isa are wherever Xemnas is. Other than that your guess is as good as mine.

[cageunemptied]

[Elizabeth has always had high moral standards, and she has always made that abundantly clear. Whenever one of the others had done something that she considered immoral, she'd always made her displeasure known - especially Braig, who as easily the most morally loose of the group (although he'd hid the worst of himself from her).

However, now was not the time to start preaching, so she held her tongue.]

And Ansem?

[Her voice breaks as she says his name, and although Lea hasn't told her of his fate, she does not have a good feeling about it.]

[chakramkeyblade]

They banished him to the world of Darkness. It didn't kill him...not right away. He stopped what Xemnas was trying to do with Kingdom Hearts, according to Yen Sid, but... he ended up getting himself killed in the process.

[cageunemptied]

[Elizabeth's heartbreak is clear in her eyes, and she shakes her head, almost desperately, her eyes wide as they look into Lea's. He's not lying. She knows he's not.

After a moment, she begins to sob quietly, her hands held over her face.]