towerofanimus | In you and I...

Characters: Xion and everyone!
Setting: Room 1-01 > Dormitory Hallways > Floor 20
Format: Whatever you like!
Summary: Xion's Arrival, plus worrying, plus minor exploring, plus falling back on something familiar
Warnings: Nothing yet, will edit if necessary

[Not being able to move when she'd woken up had been a little scary, but not nearly as terrifying as the letters she'd found just after. The worlds, all of them, gone? They couldn't be... they couldn't! And yet, when she tried to open a darkness corridor to one of them, nothing happened.

She gets dressed from the clothes in her trunk, puts the hood of her black coat up, and after that, she heads out into the dormitory hallways, where she finds one of the network terminals. She may have been able to gain access to files she wasn't supposed to back in the World That Never Was, but it doesn't take much poking around on the device though to come to the conclusion that there's not much more information on what happened on the terminals here.

What was she going to do? What happened to Roxas and Axel, or even Riku? Was this somehow her fault?

At that point, she begins descending the stairs to the floors below, looking around briefly on each floor before continuing.

On floor 20, though, she stops. It's open to the air for the first time. It reminds her a little of the Clock Tower, though it was impossible to mistake the cold, overcast skies for warm, bright Twilight Town. Still, it's familiar, memories that are her own, and right now that familiarity is a comfort. She walks out to the edge and sits, legs hanging over as she stares out. Not that there's much to see.]

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[She couldn't help but be taken aback by what he was saying.]

You're not... but... you look just like him...

[She sat back a little, surprised and a little upset, until the rest of what he'd said hits her. Her head shot up again.]

He's here?

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[He let out a good-natured laugh.] Yeah, we get that a lot. Don't worry, you're not the first.

Yeah, he's here! He's my roommate. You a friend of his from back home?

[Still a little confused, but if Roxas is here... then she needs to find him, figure out what's going on. She nods, hesitating slight before adding.]

I'm Xion.

I'm Ventus. Nice to meet you Xion!

[He smiled and patted the ground next to him, inviting her to chill.] Everything OK?

[Xion hesitates, before dropping down next to him. She shakes her head at his question, as if trying to shake away troublesome thoughts.]

I don't know... I... I only just got here...

[She's still mentally reeling a little from how fast everything's changed.]

Don't worry, you get used to it.

[Which...was a bit of a pessimistic stance to take, but he was still trying to keep up a smile.]

It's not too hard. And you've already got a friend here! That's good.

[Xion grimaces a little. She doesn't like the idea of just getting used to it. Though if their worlds really were destroyed... It might be inevitable.

He's right about Roxas though, at least.]

Yeah... [She glances over at him, turning her head a little more so she can see him around the edge of the hood.]

Do you know where Roxas is?

Not right now. [Ven began kicking his feet back and forth a bit over the edge of the tower.]

We're roommates, so I see him around all the time, but I don't know where he is right now. He's probably investigating one of the new floors or something.

Oh...

[There's a part of her that wants to find Roxas now after what had just happened, another that's uneasy, after their last chaotic meeting. Not to mention it's still surreal to be talking to someone who looked so similar to Roxas, he could be his twin.

She settles on looking out at the gray horizon.]

The new floors?

Yeah! Occasionally a few new floors will be added to this tower, with new stuff.

[He looked down a bit with a small frown.] Some of them are kind of...well, weird and scary. And dangerous. But sometimes they have stuff like a new library, or the aquarium floor. It's kind of cool if you don't worry about the dangerous parts.

[Xion blinks. She's heard of a library, even if she's never really been inside one before. The aquarium, meanwhile, is a much more alien concept.

And of course, the dangerous parts are worrisome too.]

What kinds of dangerous parts...? [She pauses, before she adds quietly] And... what's an aquarium?

[All these things she's never really heard of before, or gotten the chance to explore. Organization life revolved around its work, and her time traveling with Riku didn't allow much time for that sort of thing either.]

An aquarium kind of like...well here it's this big place-- [And he stretched out his arms to emphasize this point]--filled with water where fish live and swim around in, and people can watch them.

As for the dangerous parts...[He frowned a bit, dropping his arms back to his sides as he thought.] There's one floor that's just bloody handprints. Anothercompletely dark, and one with a forest where animals might attack. And lately a bunch more monsters have been showing up on some of the floors too.

[She grimaces. A part of her is honestly sorry she asked, about the dangerous parts.]

If it's so dangerous, why are we even here?

[It's more of a rhetorical question. Not aimed at Ventus in particular, but just... confusion and maybe a tiny little bit of frustration. Why would they bring them all here, whoever "they" are?

Her voice softens a little though.]

An aquarium sounds really neat, though.

[Rhetorical or not, Ven sure was gonna do his darnedest to try and answer.]

I...don't really know. They say they brought us here to save us, but I've survived the destruction of worlds before. And some of the stuff that's happened here is pretty bad.

[He looked pretty serious, but he tried to lighten up a bit, regardless.] Yeah, it's really cool...! It's one of my favorite floors. I can show you some time if you want.

I'd like that, I think.

[After that, she falls silent for a little while, pondering what everything Ven said might mean.]

It doesn't sound like they really saved us at all.

I don't...I don't know.

[He frowns, as he stares off into space for a bit, taking some time to be silent himself.] I know it takes a lot to destroy worlds. I don't know if our worlds...ARE gone or not. And I guess they might be...

[His face fell visibly at this, but he was trying not to let whatever was getting to him bother him.] The stuff they're doing here though doesn't make up for it, I don't think.

It sure doesn't sound like it.

[She isn't really used to talking to people a lot, besides Roxas and Axel. But... maybe it was because he looked so much like Roxas but... Ven... wasn't hard to talk to. Not too much, at least.

She decides to drop the topic on the worlds being destroyed for now. It just... not a comfortable one right now.

She turns back to the view.]

...Is it always cloudy here like this?

[She'd like to think she might be able to see a sunset, like back in Twilight Town...]

Yeah, sadly. [He gave a small sigh and a lop-sided frown.]

There are some floors where there's sort of sunlight and another floor where you can see space and stuff, but there's not really anywhere you can see the sky. [It kind of sucked.]

Oh...

[If she sounds disappointed that's because she is. No more sunsets? She'd known them since she could barely understand what was going on in the world around her...]

That's... too bad.

[He frowned; it was pretty easy to tell she was disappointed.]

Sorry. You like the sky, huh? [He could certainly sympathize with that.]

In you and I...

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