Multipup post because I've been MIA for a while.

[bashitwithearth]

In a rare moment of whim, Lexaeus is downstairs. He has a plate of roast in front of him, a beer next to his gloved hand, and his eye scanning the bar. It's obvious that he's considering something, though what is hard to say.

Carlos, on the other hand, is at the bar itself and he's very much not looking out. Perhaps he's here because he feels

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[ostro_goth]

"Greetings, Lexaeus," Teja says, walking over to speak to the tall Nobody, when he sees him.

He has not seen any of them for a while, and has been wondering.

[bashitwithearth]

Lexaeus nodded his head in reply, though his eyes continued their search.

"Teja," he finally said.

"How do you fare?"

[ostro_goth]

"I fare well," Teja says, with a small note of surprise in his voice. He does not expect to.

Pause.

"I have not seen any of you for a long while; so I would rather ask you how you fare?"

[bashitwithearth]

"As always," and there's something that probably only one of the first Six would recognize as a smile. After all, they didn't really change, did they? They couldn't.

Except to fade.

[ostro_goth]

"I have been wondering where you all are," Teja admits. "I find I do miss the Nobodies, and the former Nobodies. Roxas came, and my Charlie was one of the few that could speak to him -- and then, all Nobodies and re-enheartened Somebodies were gone!"

[bashitwithearth]

"Things move," he said without explanation.

"Things have changed. Occasionally, that requires adjustment."

[ostro_goth]

"Indeed," Teja says, "that is ever the case -- in my life, or afterlife, also! But I have not forgotten my friends, and am wondering how they are faring. If you see Xaldin, or any of the others, give them my greetings!"

[bashitwithearth]

"I have seen Xaldin," he said with a nod.

"He had some business to attend to," which Lexaeus had attended to dutifully.

"He is fine."

[ostro_goth]

"That is good to hear," Teja says. "I have had friends in this place before, that were ever there, and then, all of a sudden, would return no more."

[bashitwithearth]

"I am sure they will return," he said with a nod.

[ostro_goth]

"Indeed," Teja says. "You, for one, have already!"

[bashitwithearth]

"I didn't really go much of anywhere. I was... scarce, but present."

[ostro_goth]

"Then I have merely not seen you," Teja says. "How fares Zexion?"

[bashitwithearth]

"He fares as well as he might. He struggles, as I expect I will when I regain my heart."

[ostro_goth]

"It is you and Larxene only now, except of Roxas, of course, that have not regained theirs?" Teja asks, less because he does not know, more because he wants to know if anything has changed, about that.

[bashitwithearth]

"At last count, yes," he said and took a sip of his beer.

"I will be last."