It was like fitting pieces of a puzzle together. She had enough to form one corner; she needed more to fill in the gaps, to make something of the whole. Finding out what she didn't need to know was a risk to her mental and emotional state of being and she was already edging into the negative.
That would not do.
He continued in his weighted silence as the Keyblade Master had this information dawn upon her in a terrible way. And it would only get worse from here.
A step. Two steps. Several. Each one was slow and orderly in comparison to the feelings that raced through Aqua, closing the gap even more. The space was not closed completely; the Nobody let her keep some of her security -- whatever was left of it.
A corner of his mouth quirked slightly prior to relaxing back into neutrality. "Trick?" Xemnas could have laughed at the notion. "I only said what you needed to hear and wrote what you needed to read. And it was the truth. Nothing more."
The tone of his voice failed to betray any hidden depth to what was said. Or perhaps it was as he intended it to be, no different meanings involved.
But she wanted an answer. Demanded it.
Such a risk was to be rewarded.
With a fluid motion, a hand rose to remove the sunglasses that only obscured a small portion of his dark features. Gold eyes slowly reopened to meet her gaze again, unflinching. Intense.
no subject
It was like fitting pieces of a puzzle together. She had enough to form one corner; she needed more to fill in the gaps, to make something of the whole. Finding out what she didn't need to know was a risk to her mental and emotional state of being and she was already edging into the negative.
That would not do.
He continued in his weighted silence as the Keyblade Master had this information dawn upon her in a terrible way. And it would only get worse from here.
A step. Two steps. Several. Each one was slow and orderly in comparison to the feelings that raced through Aqua, closing the gap even more. The space was not closed completely; the Nobody let her keep some of her security -- whatever was left of it.
A corner of his mouth quirked slightly prior to relaxing back into neutrality. "Trick?" Xemnas could have laughed at the notion. "I only said what you needed to hear and wrote what you needed to read. And it was the truth. Nothing more."
The tone of his voice failed to betray any hidden depth to what was said. Or perhaps it was as he intended it to be, no different meanings involved.
But she wanted an answer. Demanded it.
Such a risk was to be rewarded.
With a fluid motion, a hand rose to remove the sunglasses that only obscured a small portion of his dark features. Gold eyes slowly reopened to meet her gaze again, unflinching. Intense.
"My name...is Xemnas."