[Eraqus would not likely agree to using a dark corridor as it was - aside from being entirely the wrong element, who is to say that the monster did not lurk within the dark pathways? Meeting it in such a narrow space, where it had even more of an advantage, would be tremendously unfortunate to say the least.

There is a definite slump to his shoulders as the Cure spell works its restorative magics through his system, bolstering the healing that he had begun earlier. He is in a great deal of pain, more than he would prefer to show, and the question regarding standing earns a grimace.]

Hnn. Only one way to find out.

[Planting the Master Keeper a little more firmly in the ground, Eraqus struggles back into an upright position; some of it is exhaustion, there's simply no getting around that - it was a long, hard fight, and he was very fortunate to get away from it at all. He may well need help walking, but once he is unsteadily upright, he does his best to keep his left arm tucked against his side.]

They've been out each night. But this was the first I met one of their kind larger than a Neoshadow. Faster.

[Grey eyes fix on Riku, exceptionally serious.]

No light is safe while that Heartless roams the City.