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[prayerless]

Characters: [OU] Aqua and you!
Setting: Floor 20, throughout the week
Format: Starting action, but I'll match!
Summary: After a handwaved voice-only announcement on the network, Aqua finally takes on her apprentices. Keyblade training and magic lessons within! Feel free to just stumble upon her if you are not involved in either class.
Warnings: None, will edit if necessary.

[Getting over the shame of her defeat had been a process. She hadn't even wanted to face her friends, much less the people that trusted her to teach them. She'd been working with some of the magic students on and off as the miseries in the Tower allowed, but after the conflict with Xehanort, all training had been postponed until she could reassemble the pieces of her shattered dignity.

But, it's time for her to own up to her responsibilities again and face all of her pupils, even if she doesn't want them to see the scars that now adorn her face. She's trying to wear them as a sign of her survival. Not as a mark of shame.

Keyword being "trying".

Aqua waits on the open-air twentieth floor, her beginner's aides for magic set up around her and her Keyblade at her side. Hopefully there was still interest in what she had to offer. The least she could do was pass on her knowledge, if she herself wasn't going to use it wisely.]

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[justabignobody]

[Riku might be maybe in a bit of a habit... well not quite to avoid Aqua, but maybe to intentionally keep from crossing her path. Which is totally not the same thing. It's not like there is much to talk about - or anything other than smalltalk to be exchanged and really neither of them needs the resulting awkwardness, especially considering how many people Aqua is teaching.

Except... that there are things to talk now, with Vanitas back, with the connection between him and Ventus, between Ventus and Sora... and with that extending also towards Roxas and Xion. He's promised himself to protect them, has even told Xion as much, but with what little he knows about the time that Vanitas, Ventus and Aqua are from, from what he's heard and seen when Xion had been taken... he might not be able to keep that promise. Not by himself. Maybe not even with Xehanort's powers. Or Naminé's help.

Someone else needs to know about it all of it... or at least some of it. Someone who knows what Vanitas and Xehanort are capable of. Who can help fight them.

With Terra gone, there is only one person he can think to fit that bill.

Reasons why he's approaching the twentieth floor in the evening of the day of her latest announcement, hoping to catch her alone. He wouldn't want to disturb any of her lessons after all.]