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[ Riku would like to think that, one day, she'll get over this. She knows she's herself now, no one else, but there are times when the effects Ansem had on her really make themselves known. And she's really getting sick of this neverending cycle. Especially when even her skin changes colors.

She's kneeling just inside the entrance to Halloween Town, bent over so far that her hair brushes across the ground. Her forehead rests across one arm for support, fingers digging into the dirt, while the other hand clutches at her chest. Her altered appearance aside (and we don't mean her normal black costume), there might be something more worrying about this picture. There are Shadows rising from the floor around her. ]

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[he's actually been chased by one but it didn't look like those!]

I don't think so?

[Ugh, jeez. Riku runs a hand through her hair.]

Those things are... dangerous. They can destroy entire worlds, and where I came from, they did. If you see anything like that, I want you to run, alright?

Really? They didn't seem to be hurting you.

That's because... of how I look now. Right now, I'm not... me. I have too much darkness. I can't control it, and they're drawn to it.

[She frowns.]

They exist to steal hearts.

[he frowns at all that, wondering how a person could have too much darkness in them]

How do you go back to the way you were then?

[Oh, Roxas.]

... I don't know. I'm working on finding a way.

I know! Maybe if you do good things for people, you'll feel better! It always makes me feel good when I've made someone else happy.

[She looks utterly confused at that. Not the suggestion itself, because it makes sense - light emotions and all that. But the fact that he's suggesting it is a bit weird. Is he a Sora in disguise?]

Like what?

[no, but he grew up with one?]

Well... Do you know anyone who would need help? Sora and I would help the sisters when they couldn't see to thread needles, or help making dinner for everyone.

[Well, they're close enough, to her. She does associate them together, considering the whole Nobody issue. Excuse her as she wrinkles her nose at that.]

I don't know.

Well, what are you good at doing then?

Fighting.

[Blunt, Riku.]

[he looks a little stumped at that]

Okay.. Anything else?

Sure. But I can't think of anything I'm good at that would help anyone much.

Maybe we can put up signs for if someone needs your help, all they have to do is find you?

... How about we not?

[She does not look at all happy with that suggestion.]

[his lower lip pokes out a bit at that]

But how else will you know when someone needs help?

I don't need to. I'll figure something else out. I'm not doing something like that.

[She runs a hand through her hair, looking up and down the hall.]

Well... If helping people doesn't make you feel good, what does?

[he's hoping she doesn't say fighting again]

[She pauses like she's thinking about that, but she knew the answer immediately.]

... My friends.

Maybe you can do something for them, then!

[one track mind, what is that.]

No.

[That was quick.]

[sadfaces at that]

Why not?

There's nothing I can do for them.

[She's bordering sadfacing herself at that.]

You never know if you don't ask, though. It doesn't have to be something big, Riku.