No rest for the weary

[attheclocktower]

Characters: Xion and YOU
Setting: Room 1-01, Dormitories, Floor 1, and later anywhere about the Tower except the non-magic floors.
Format: Action to start but I'll follow you
Summary: Xion starts absorbing memories again. Later, she goes looking for certain people.
Warnings: Nothing much at this point? Will edit if this changes.

[ Part 1 ]

[Xion jerks awake with a jolt. She'd been dreaming. Again. Only this wasn't like the dreams she'd been plagued with during the Labyrinth - the ones that had only just stopped a few days ago. But it was still familiar.

No, this was like how she'd been dreaming, back in their - her? - worlds. While she was absorbing Sora's memories. Except... she could have sworn there were memories there that didn't have anything to do with Sora at all. There were even some she were pretty sure were her own, but she'd never dreamed about her own memories like that...

She shakes her head, gets up, gets dressed and heads downstairs. She'll be listless as she picks at her bland meal of nutrition bars, puzzling over what's happened. She's perfectly botherable though, and could probably use the distraction, as much as she may deny that.]

[ Part 2 ]

[After she escapes a certain encounter, Xion will be looking for people. Riku and Axel are high on her list, as are certain others among her closer friends in the tower. Except she has no idea where they are, so she's using the darkness corridors to run around, looking for them. Her hood is up - if there's a time she doesn't want to be recognized, it's now, with a death threat hanging over her head. She may also jump - if not run outright - at the sight of spiky hair, even if it's not dark like Vanitas' is.

Overall, there is a scared girl in a black hooded coat running about your Tower, Animus, not that this is too different from normal. What do?]

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[attheclocktower]

[She whips around at the sound of her name, relief flooding her once she sees who it is.]

Riku!

[She's running towards him before she can think, stumbling to her knees once she's close enough. There's a few moments where she's catching her breath, trying to calm herself down enough to be coherent.]

Vanitas is back in the Tower. He remembers everything. I-I just saw him. He... he said-

[She cuts herself off with a choked noise. She's been in a state of barely controlled panic up until this point. Vanitas had nearly killed her twice - "third time's the charm" - he'd done something awful to Ven and because of him her other self had died once. She's got plenty of reason to be scared.]

[justabignobody]

[He climbs to his feet when he sees her stumbling towards him, concern clearly visible on his face as he crouches down beside her, just about to ask just what was going on, eyes widening when she tells him.

He presses his lips together, one hand automatically reaching to touch her arm - he doesn't need to be able to sense darkness to know that she's scared and it's no wonder that she is, not considering what has happened before.]

It's okay. You are safe now. I won't let anything happen to you.

[Not here, not now, never again if he can help it. No matter what.]

[attheclocktower]

[Xion shudders just once from the aftereffects of her panic, though the tension in her shoulders eases a little once she's done. Riku's words help a little, though they don't entirely dispel the cloud of fear hanging above her.

Because there's a part of her that knows that he can't watch her all the time. Logistically it just wasn't possible. He wasn't there when she'd run into Vanitas this morning. They didn't always go to the same places, or eat at the same time.

Plus there's another quiet part of her that doesn't want him to feel like he has to. He has Sora to look after here, and all his other friends. She's just a puppet. They deserve it so much more than she does.

Still, she pushes that part aside for now, focusing instead on the matter at hand.]

Wh-what are we going to do? He.... he's going to find me again. He said he would.

[justabignobody]

[He is glad to see at least some of her fear drain away, even though he is realistic enough to know that he can't take it all away. Because she is right; he can't possibly keep that promise, no matter just how much he wishes he could.

...She and Naminé should sit together and make a list of all the things they think they don't possibly deserve - just so that Riku can take it and feed it to a Dark Firaga right in front of them, because yeah. They do in fact deserve them. Of course that makes him a really terrible hypocrite because the list of things he himself thinks he doesn't deserve is definitely just about as long, but hey. That's really not the point.

He hesitates a bit as he thinks... what kind of advice can he give her, how can he reassure her, make her feel safe... how can he, when he himself is maybe likely to draw he shorter straw against that particular opponent.]

...I don't think you are his true target, but...

For now... try to stay around people you trust as much as possible. Don't take any risks; if you are alone and don't feel safe, take a corridor to someone or some place where you do.

As for the long run... we'll figure something out.