[This was a setback. She'd asked for an answer that he wasn't ready to deliver, an answer that still escaped him. In truth, he was still as much bound to his original fate as he ever had been -all it would take would be something strong enough to subdue him and he was just as easy to return to his place as he was in any case.
As she'd demonstrated.
And yet, even if that happened, he refused to just go quietly. He refused to accept that as the only path he had before him. It was that stubborn resistance and even his persistence in an aggravated limbo that assured him that another way must exist.
Just like with his battle against this side of Xion, Roxas began to think that maybe he'd just been going about it the wrong way at first. Unfortunately though, the reality still was that all his efforts had yet to even yield a lead. So it was time to just do what he'd promised to do and be honest.]
I don't know.
[There was a hint, a reflection of mild defeat in his tone as he answered. But before she could speak up again to curse him or insult him, he chose to explain himself better.]
I don't know because I've been looking at it as just me searching for an answer. I've looked for that way alone. And all that I've learned has told me that you just can't exist entirely on your own.
[A pause.]
So let's do it together, Xion. Let's look together.
It always turns out better when we're both working on things, right?
[His statement finishes with that smile of his. It's encouraging, almost naive... yet the look in his eyes tries to convey that he's trying to do more than just throw hope into the air and see what it yields. Perhaps in the hours of his revival, he's grown up a little.]
Like when you lost your Keyblade... and we found it together.
It's cool. I'm expecting company today, so tagging may be sporadic.
As she'd demonstrated.
And yet, even if that happened, he refused to just go quietly. He refused to accept that as the only path he had before him. It was that stubborn resistance and even his persistence in an aggravated limbo that assured him that another way must exist.
Just like with his battle against this side of Xion, Roxas began to think that maybe he'd just been going about it the wrong way at first. Unfortunately though, the reality still was that all his efforts had yet to even yield a lead. So it was time to just do what he'd promised to do and be honest.]
I don't know.
[There was a hint, a reflection of mild defeat in his tone as he answered. But before she could speak up again to curse him or insult him, he chose to explain himself better.]
I don't know because I've been looking at it as just me searching for an answer. I've looked for that way alone. And all that I've learned has told me that you just can't exist entirely on your own.
[A pause.]
So let's do it together, Xion. Let's look together.
It always turns out better when we're both working on things, right?
[His statement finishes with that smile of his. It's encouraging, almost naive... yet the look in his eyes tries to convey that he's trying to do more than just throw hope into the air and see what it yields. Perhaps in the hours of his revival, he's grown up a little.]
Like when you lost your Keyblade... and we found it together.