Will you or won't you

[attheclocktower]

Characters: Anybody and everybody
Setting: Floor 1, before noon
Summary: Riki's offered a way to help keep the Tower powered a little longer. Obviously this is going to cause a lot of discussion and debate so let's CONSOLIDATE
Warnings: Nothing as of yet. Possibly eventually, so keep an eye on subject lines and I 'll try to change to reflect any developments

[No doubt Riki's announcement would be polarizing, but the instructions themselves were clear: Floor 1 at noon if you want to help out. And if you want to meet people, try to talk them in or out of it? Or hell, maybe even just talk about the revelation on who is behind those explosions? Well, this is as good a place as any for that too.

Just remember to be careful near the staircase]

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[attheclocktower]

[Xion hears her name and looks up, eyes widening when she sees who it is.]

Naminé!

[There's relief and concern in her expression as she regards the other girl. It's always good to see her but, the current circumstances...]

What are you doing here?

[She winces at herself nearly as soon as she says it. What are any of them doing here?]

[lethechained]

[There's an attempt at a smile, an automatic response to both the sound of her name and the look on Xion's face as well as her own fraction of relief. At the question, the attempt fades away.]

I'm not sure myself, to tell you the truth.

[A falter, then,]

I guess-- I felt like I couldn't not come. I had to see what was going on. [She hesitates.] Are you...?

['Going to help?']

[attheclocktower]

[Xion nods.]

I... I really have to.

[She couldn't not. Just like Naminé couldn't not be here.]

If the Tower runs out of power early...

[Unless the end they want is death, the Tower running out of power spells the end of everything they want to accomplish]

[lethechained]

So you believe it, then?

[The signs do point to some serious problems, but....]

[She shakes her head.]

Do you think they'll let you go, once you're finished?

[attheclocktower]

[Xion pauses, her expression drawn up in distress, but then]

Even if they don't... I don't want to die. I don't want to go back to my dead world forever.

[She isn't sure she's ready to admit to Naminé what she wants yet]

If... I am going to die though, at least I want to do it trying to fix things.

[lethechained]

[Naminé knows what she herself wants, at least. She wants not to die, or be in a dead world, or any of those things - just like Xion. The difference, perhaps, is that Naminé spent a long time with people who saw fit to make her life miserable even before coming to the tower, people who were traitorous snakes in the grass much too quick to destruction.]

I understand. I don't think any of us do.

[A pause. Quietly,]

Are you frightened?