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[tall_dark_and]

Riku is in Milliways once more. He can be found outside, near to the lake, wielding a practice wooden sword. For every day that he'd lost his sight, he'd gotten rustier with his fighting skills, and he's finding as many chances as he can to practice now

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[killitwith_fire]

There are no Heartless here for now; that may still change sometime in the future.

As it stands, the only reason Axel's outside right now is because he caught a glimpse of what he thought was a familiar form moving out there, and...

Yep.

"Thought I saw you out here."

[tall_dark_and]

"Really." Riku responds. He's acknowledging the statement, but not showing much interest in it, as of yet. He merely keeps on with his practice. "Were you looking for me?"

[killitwith_fire]

"No," he replies. "But I was bored."

Winter is a boring season. There's a lot of cold. He tries, mostly, to avoid it.

[tall_dark_and]

One would think his fire would help a little!

"Nice to know I'm an amusement, then."

Riku glances back at him, a smile twitching over his face for a moment.

[killitwith_fire]

"You're better than nothing," Axel replies cheerfully.

The fire helps. But it's also a constant reminder that cold is his weakness - the element that's inimical to his being.

[tall_dark_and]

"I'll take that as a compliment."

Riku sticks the sword into the ground as he turns to face Axel, leaning on it a little heavily. "Just as long as I'm not expected to do a song or dance."

[killitwith_fire]

"You've never struck me as the artistic type," he comments.

[tall_dark_and]

"Thus, the point stands," Riku says. "Namine has always covered that necessity well enough for the both of us."

As well as many others. She was a useful sort of girl, wasn't she?

[killitwith_fire]

Axel's always found her to be so.

"There's more than one way to be artistic," he points out.

[tall_dark_and]

"Of course," Riku acknowledges. "One might even say that combat is artistic in itself."

It certainly has many elements to paint a pretty picture with.

[killitwith_fire]

Axel gives him a thin smile.

"The 'art of the sword,' you might say?" he suggests.

[tall_dark_and]

"I suppose," Riku says. He doesn't smile back. "It's not the only weapon one can choose to use."

Not all wounds are physical, either; not even in combat.

[killitwith_fire]

Axel's smile widens into a grin.

"Well, that's true," he says. "I was just speaking in metaphors."

[tall_dark_and]

"Ah," Riku says, mildly. "Then it seems to have gone over my head."

[killitwith_fire]

Axel gives him a bit of a look.

"Are you okay? Usually you're brighter than that."

[tall_dark_and]

Riku pauses for a moment over that, and then gives him a bit of a sheepish look.

"See this?" he asks, tapping the blindfold. "It helps me see, but -- I'm still adjusting to how my perceptions are different. It's very... strange. Offers no lack of migraines in the change."