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[There's a place that looks awfully like Castle Oblivion, here. And a rather confused looking white-haired boy stepping into it, out of a room full of the sounds of wild falling waters. He turns, looking back the way he came, yelling back-]

Grandfather? Terra? Can you see this? I-

[Peek in. Peek out. Rub his head. Something's wrong - something's very wrong. But he'd just stepped from home, with his grandfather-namesake and his older brother and all his family, to out here, and that isn't something that's supposed to happen. You don't just - step out of the world. Not out of somewhere you're meant to fit in.

Still, curiosity's built into Xehanort almost by definition. Muttering directions under his breath to make sure things are okay, he heads onwards, through the shining white corridors... because he's going to get to the bottom of this.

The fact that he never had a grandfather or a brother in that sense isn't occurring to him right now.
Nor is the fact that the room's changing behind him.]

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... Weird how now?

Um, well, I've run into a room that was just full of jello. And then there's rooms that are just giant ballpits, or full of pillows from one wall to the other. There's one that looks like a food court in a mall? And I found one once that was just full of figurines of people in the DR.

[And at the 'room full of jello', he cracks up.]

... I'm just not going to assume there's any limit to 'strange' right now.

There's definitely no limit. This place still surprises me sometimes, and I've been here for years now.

[Through some more cookie-]

I guess it went and surprised me too, huh.

I guess it did.

[she frowns a bit, but ends up just sighing and smiling.]

At least we did figure out what was going on.

Mmm.

[A pause-]

This is going to sound odd. But I'm going to miss them. Everyone back ... everyone I remember back home. Even if they're [swallow] not real people.

I don't think it's odd at all, Xeha. The memories... they're there, that makes them real.

[He gives a little smile.]

Thanks. I just can't help but wonder what they'd make of this place, too. [And a little chuckle, oddly resigned -] I bet they'd have been proud of the spell at least.

They would have.

[she waffles on it for a moment, then reaches over the table to give one of his hands a squeeze.]

It'll be okay.

[He smiles faintly again, and puts his other hand out to meet hers.]

I know it will be. It's just not yet. But at least this helps.

[she beams at him from across the table.]

Just... remember to let me know if you need anything, okay?

I think I'll remember that bit.

Good. Don't you ever forget it.

[He just laughs, warmly, and finishes off the milk.]

[Sora is just gonna go back to her cookies.]