No doubt you have seen the latest curse. Perhaps you're even thinking how beautiful a curse this is. For the City to have brought love into a place where there was none before; to offer the change of a life beyond the true nature of this place.

You are fools. The City is nothing so kind. It is breaking into your very mind to create a love that ( Read more... )

Growth. It is a simple word, and yet that which it is is varied. What it can mean depends on who you ask, and the situation in which it is used and yet at its core it comes down to a simple fact. Growth is change. If we fear growth, it is the change inherent within that we fear. Fear of that which may yet be and may never be. An interesting ( Read more... )

[At first, there's just the sounds of the City. One of the back alleys, most likely, since the hustle and bustle isn't as loud as it could be. At length, however, a voice breaks the silence.]

That will be enough.

[Apparently, whoever he's addressing hadn't expected him there, since there's a half-smothered yelp of surprise.]

I haven't done ( Read more... )

Denizens of the City, today I come before you with a query. A simple query, yet one that deals with a matter that we all know. Today, I have come before you to speak of the curses. A fact we have all grown to deal with in a myriad of ways and yet there is one fact that always eludes us. To what purpose are we saddled with such an unasked-for ( Read more... )

Once again the city strives to interfere in that which I had intended. There will be little use in my attempting to ask the question I had intended for today, and so I shall merely leave you with this. While this curse may be enjoyable I do not envy you the inevitable side effects.

[The sound is a little muffled, almost as if it were coming from inside a pocket, but Xemnas' voice is still easy enough to make out. The person he's talking to... not so much ( Read more... )

[At first there's just laughter; low and deep and quite thoroughly amused. It doesn't quite sound like Xemnas' though, and the reason might just become more apparent when the voice's owner finally speaks.]

Not what I have expected to see and yet such darkness this place holds. To think that such a paradise could be found on the other side of the ( Read more... )

[His voice is quiet, but no less dangerous for that. He is not pleased, >|]

Would anyone care to explain where the Replica has gone?

[As is occasionally their wont, the device seems to have turned on just in time to catch Xemnas in mid-argument.]

You cannot understand the importance of what I do. You never have. Blinded by your own heart, and what it asks of you. I can no more explain to you the necessity of my actions than you can understand the nature of that which holds ( Read more... )

I suppose a bit of time spent doing nothing in particular wouldn't be entirely remiss.