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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[Xion can't help but tense a little in surprise at the sound of another person's approach, before glancing behind her to see who it is. Not so much that she didn't hear him, but the usual surprise at someone approaching her.

At the question, she looks down, unsure of how to answer. It should be obvious that she's not okay, from the way she's sitting, curled up a little, and staring at her clasped hands in her lap.

Instead, she ducks her head further.]

I... I'm fine.

[Only she doesn't sound sure.]

[Link watches her, head tilted a little.]

Is it okay if I sit with you?

[She stares up in surprise, considering for a moment, before turning back to the gray horizon and nodding quietly. She may not be the greatest company right now, but she won't mind.]

[Oh, good. She said yes. Link lowers himself to the floor and lets his legs dangle over the edge. After a quiet moment, he speaks up again.]

I'm Link. I got here not too long ago. [He watches her out of the corner of his eye. Does she seem to notice him talking?]

[Xion glances over, a little nervously, before looking down at her knees. After a moment's pause...]

Xion. [beat] Me too.

[She's nervous... but she answered him. He still can't tell if she really wants to talk, but maybe she's just a shy kind of person. And if she's feeling nervous because she just got here, well -- Link certainly can't blame her.]

Is there... anything you want to know?

[There's a soft sigh, before she looks up]

Are... is the world I was on before really gone?

[That's... one of the first things he asked, too. Link shakes his head in response.]

I don't think so. I think they're just telling us that.

[Then why would they bring them here. Why take them away from their worlds at all, and make it impossible - even for someone like her, used to traveling between worlds - go back?

Instead she just nods.]

I wonder why we're here, then...

I don't know. [Link looks at his knees for a moment before he looks up at her again.] Someone I can trust said that it's because they're doing experiments on us.

[Xion stiffens a little. She doesn't like the sound of that at all. Never mind that she herself was the product of an experiment.]

Experiments?

In you and I...

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Oh god this is so late I am so sorry