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[oathbreaker]

[Well! Riku sounds rather flustered for once!]

Just whose great idea was this?

Oh, what, you can't deal with the truth for a change? Can't deal with someone who won't lie to make you feel like a better person?

Stop it!

Or what? Are you gonna--

[The rest of that threat doesn't make it to the network--Riku's muted the comm. He turns it back on a

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[Audio]

[lightyourway]

Riku?

Who's that?

[Audio & Text]

[oathbreaker]

[Oh, great. Kairi. Normally hearing Kairi's voice over the comms would be a good thing--but maybe not so much today. Particularly when a lot of the things his shadow is saying concern her.]

It's nothing! It's--

You can't lie to her, you know. Why do you keep trying? I bet you she already knows you--

[There's a loud sound, blocking out whatever it is the other voice is saying. It sounds like Riku just stomped on the floor.]

You're trying to stomp on me? Like that's going to do anything! But then again, that's all you can ever do, isn't it? You can never do anything useful.

[The shadow is still talking in the background, but Riku's ignoring it. He's very deadpan when he speaks, and Kairi can probably just -see- the unimpressed look on his face.]

It's my shadow.

[Audio]

[lightyourway]

Lie...?

[Whoa. His shadow?]

Where are you, in your room?

[Audio + Text for reals this time]

[oathbreaker]

[There's a hesitation before his response. The way his shadow keeps trying to taunt him, there's a very real possibility of it revealing something he doesn't want Kairi to know.]

...Yeah, I am.

Hah! What now, are you hoping that--

[The feed cuts out, muting the rest of the shadow's taunt. Riku scowls at it. Obviously he'll have to resort to what many of the other passengers are doing.]

Don't listen to anything it says.