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Characters: Sora, OPEN~ (first section locked to Xion)
Setting: Dorms, in and around room 1-06 (or anywhere else in the Tower, really). Backdated to yesterday.
Format: I'll match you!
Summary: Sora awakens after a month-long nap.
Warnings: None!
Notes: If Vanitas stole your character's stuff and left it with Sora - Gamzee and Taiki are the two that I can think of off the top of my head - feel free to come retrieve it in this log! Sora will gladly give it back.

Dorms - Locked to Xion

[It was with a loud yawn and a stretch that Sora, for the first time in over a month, opened his eyes. He didn't realize how long it had been, though - he came up here to take a short nap, so surely it was only a few hours. Right? Still, he felt a little drowsy, like he had overslept or something.

He'd had a lot of dreams, too, he remembered. That was pretty weird.

Sora sat up, planted his feet on the floor, and was started by a loud HONK that woke him right up.

...why were there horns on the bottom of his shoes?

And why did his face feel like it was covered in paint?]

Oh great.

[Welp. Time for a walk of shame to the bathroom to figure out just how bad this was. He takes off his shoe, for now - he can worry about that later.]

Anywhere Else - Open!

[Well, after finding out that he's been napping for just a little more than a few hours, Sora's eager to...well, for starters, to get something to eat. But mostly, he's eager to catch up with people!

So mission: talk to everyone is a go.]

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Y-yeah. They did.

[Man this really was a case of deja vu. Though at least Sora was awake, while Roxas hadn't been. She smiles a little helplessly. He seemed so sheepish!]

Come on, I can help you get it off.

[TRUST HER SHE HAS EXPERIENCE, HEARTDAD]

R-really?

[He smiles again at that - he was afraid that he was gonna have to get it all off by himself, and he doesn't really have much experience with cleaning up paint and stuff.] Thanks, Xion.

[HE DOES TRUST HIS HEARTBABY THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT and will happily follow her to the bathroom to take care of this...though his eyes might wander to the floor a lot, because this whole mess is still kind of embarrassing.]

Of course.

[And Xion takes his hand - if he'll let her - and leads him towards the bathrooms, because those are the nearest locations that have running water, soap, and something to scrub with. Having spent her entire life raised by boys basically, she just... pushes the door to the girl's bathroom open, looks around and notices that nobody's there, and drags him inside

Once inside, she'll get to work, grabbing at towels and turning on one of the faucets to get the towels wet. She glances over her shoulder, smile fading a little and forehead crinkling with worry.]

By the way, um... Sora, where've you been?

[Are you okay? is the silent, unasked question here.]

[He does let her take his hand and, in fact, it's probably a good thing that she does, because gosh the floor sure is interesting right now. He does look up in time to see the bathroom entrance and take note that it's...uh oh...]

Um, wait, Xion...!

[It's a little too late, though, and well...no one is around, at least. Plus, she can't exactly go into the boys bathroom either, so...it's just for a few minutes. It can't hurt anything, right?

Or, at least, that's what he's trying to tell himself.

Reassuring himself of that doesn't stop Sora from feeling a bit awkward, since the girl's bathroom is just not a place you go ever, but he was still grateful for the help. The question makes him pause, though, and look at Xion with a bit of confusion. Where had he been? What in the world did she mean?]

Huh? What are you talking about?

[She pauses, more than a little confused right back. It's only when the water starts to scald a little that she realizes they're still in the water, where she'd been checking the temperature. She pulls them back quickly, turning the warm water down and adding some cool to the mix. A cautious poke at the water a few seconds later yields much better results, and she dumps the towels she brought over in, trying to figure out how to word this.]

We haven't seen you for a month at least.

[Maybe it was a good thing, though, considering all that had happeend. It was hard to say. Was it something the Tower had done?]

I thought you might've been with Yu and the others who disappeared, but he said he didn't see you.

[The towels are suitably wet now, all she needs to do is find some soap.]

A...month?

[There was no way that could be possible. He thought back to before he woke up, and...yeah, he was sure of it. All he remembered was going to his room to take a nap. That couldn't have been more than a few hours ago.

And there was no way he disappeared and went anywhere. That's not something he could just forget, right?]

It couldn't have been that long. I just got tired and went to sleep a little while ago!

[Maybe she was exaggerating, or there was just some kind of misunderstanding.]

[She bites her lip. She isn't... how does she explain this? She knows Sora's been gone way too long. While it could have bene possible that they just hadn't spoken, she hadn't even seen him wandering around the Tower at all, or anything of that sort. ]

Sora... what day do you think it is? [She swallows] When... when was the last time we talked to each other?

[She returns to searching for soap, and thankfully finds some nearby. She rubs it onto the washcloth then turns towards Sora, primed and ready.]

Hold still...

[And with that she'll attack his face with the soapy washcloth, aiming for the worst bits first. She'll leave his mouth free so he can talk though, if he wants.]

[What day? Sora honestly didn't keep close track of dates and days, since they didn't really matter here in the tower except every so often. It takes him a minute to remember about when it should be...and then another minute to recover enough from suddenly having his face attacked with a washcloth to talk.]

Well...I haven't really thought about it, but it's either the 5th or 6th of June. Something like that, right?

[He laughs a little, even though that's a little bit hard when he's worried about soap ending up in his mouth.]

And it hasn't been that long since we talked. Have you been losing track of time or something?

[Because that would be bad.]

[Xion scrubs at his face perhaps a little harder than she realizes - the last person she did this to had been unconscious and unable to give any feedback after all - but she waits patiently until he's able to produce a day. And that's when she pauses, stepping back to re-wet and soap the washcloth]

Sora... it's July. It has been for several days now. And... I haven't talked to you for over a month now.

[Please believe her 8(]