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[ There's a perfectly ordinary hallway that branches off from one of the main, leading to a downward staircase. If one were to walk down, they would notice how the walls and stairs themselves are decaying, changing as the steps go down from the regular floors and ordinary wood to stone. It leads down, not too far, to a long series of underground tunnels. Mostly man-made, but with natural formations as well. The sound of water running can be heard to the left and loud, scraping footsteps to the right. Which direction would you take? ]

[ooc: open post because I'm bored. Choose anyone. ~~From KH, anyway.~~]

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[That gives one of them an advantage when her double glances back at Kairi and manages to get hit in the face for her distraction. Down she goes!]

[Ouch. Kairi winces at the hit, feeling a little guilty. She's going to start moving toward them again. While she doesn't feel she can really interfere in this fight, she's not going to let it go past just a fight.]

[Well she goes down, and the double pierces the ground near her face with her blade, but the one on the ground has hers up at the same time, positioned just right against the other's chest. Oh dear.]

I don't understand. Why are you two even fighting?

[The one on the ground scowls, but doesn't take her eyes off of the double.]

Because she tried to kill me.

But why even bother with that here?

[She'd rather they didn't bother with it anywhere, but.]

How should I know?

[It's the standing one this time, looking annoyed.]

She came at me out of nowhere.

This is stupid.

[She is making her way right up to them. Her Keyblade is still out, just in case, but she doesn't look like she's about to use it.]

Then what do you suggest?

[The one on the ground remains silent, scowling at them both.]

What makes you think she's even human? She didn't say a word before you showed up.

Look, I don't know what your guys' issue with each other is. I don't pretend to know everything that happened to my own Riku.

[Her expression is firm. She's not picking sides, but she's not backing down, either.]

But just fighting to the death or whatever every time you run into each other is just going to make the both of you even angrier.

[The one on the ground scowls harder, annoyed with her position and Kairi's attitude.]

Are you even listening? I didn't come here looking for a fight. She came at me. Now she's twisting things around.

[You know what, she's going to try and get their weapons... away from each other so the grounded 'ku can stand.]

I am listening!

[She looks at the standing Riku.]

Say you win. What then?

[The one on the ground resists at first, but relents. The standing one tries hard not to budge.]

What do you mean?

Exactly that. You win, she's beaten, maybe dead, whichever. Then what? What do you get out of it?

The peace of mind in knowing she's not going to do it again?

[She sounds confident about that, at least.]

Would you if it was the other way around? Do it again, I mean?

[She hesitates, frozen in place.]

...depends.

[The other one, now standing, looks passive but unhappy. She speaks, then.]

On if you wanted revenge or not?

I probably can't even begin to understand why this happened. I haven't been here very long, but even I've figured out that stuff like that, it's not really worth it. When you kill someone, they'll just come back, right? And then you're in danger all over again.

I won't be.

[The first one, the one that was standing before, says that, and raises her weapon again.]

[Then she's going to be getting Destiny's Embrace held to meet it. Kairi looks pretty disappointed.]

I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the stubbornness.

[They both look kind of startled, but that one looks angry, too.]

Whose side are you on?

Neither of your sides, apparently, since I'm on the side where you two stop fighting because there's no point to it!

[Time for the other one to chime in.]

I don't want to fight. But if it's the choice between her or me, I'm not going to give up.

[She steps back and holds her own blade back, but not up. Not yet.]

But why does it have to come down to this at all? I don't understand!

Because she wants to kill me.

[She does not understand what there is about this to not get. Meanwhile, the one that was standing already is getting really impatient.]

Fine. Whatever.