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[caliginose]

Dear friends. Dearer enemies.

[ A familiar and not-familiar voice. The darkened city skyline. For those that know it, Xehanort's home is recognizable, though the view is not from the porch this time, or even from the second floor balcony. The speaker is perched on the roof, standing tall and steady against a howling wind. At the edges of the

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[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

That face...

[He hasn't met Terra, not in person. Or the other Xehanort, not with how new he is to the city. But he certainly knows this face on screen. He's only ever seen it in a painting.]

Just what're you planning?

[Video]

[pullsheavendown]

That's not his face. He stole it.

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

[A shocked look.]

He what?

[Private Video]

[pullsheavendown]

Master Xehanort. Vanitas' Master. That's him. He took over Terra's heart.

[Private Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

He's possessed!? [Like... he did with Riku. That just gets his blood boiling.]

Roxas- we gotta help him somehow. Now way am I gonna let Xehanort take over anybody else.

[Private Video]

[pullsheavendown]

Yeah. And I know we do, I just don't-

[His blood runs cold.]

Sora-you have to be careful, too. He's been interested in you for months now. Him and Vanitas both.

[Private Video from now on]

[lockandkeyblade]

I will. But if this guy's anything like his nobody and his heartless, we can take em'.

[But the latter half of that, well... he frowns at the screen.]

'Interested'...? What do you think these guys even want?

[Private Video]

[pullsheavendown]

I don't know if he is. He can use the Keyblade.

They-hold on.

[ Calling you, man.]

[Video]

[caliginose]

Sora!

At long last we meet, Sora! [ Spreads his arms as though in welcome, an awful smile pulling at his lips. ] Your legend has long preceded you! You are the hero that they all speak of and long for.

How it pleases me to meet you at last.

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

[He's not sure how to take any of that flattery stuff, but Sora's going to go ahead and take that with a grain of salt... and a ton of suspicion.]

Yeah well, sorry if the feeling's not mutual.

That's not your body or your heart, Xehanort. Give it back.

[Video]

[caliginose]

Oh, so I will hear the same foolishness from you as from all the others. [ Slowly shakes his head, his fingers curling and uncurling, each digit at different times. ]

My whole life's work is but a series of stepping stones. This is but another and it was as inevitable as tides and darkness.

Terra was always mine.

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

It's not foolishness if it's true. If you really think we're gonna sit back and let you do whatever you want, you've got another thing coming. Terra's heart belongs to one person and it sure isn't you.

Figures somebody like you'd be training Vanitas.

[Video]

[caliginose]

Ah, it does not surprise me that you have met my student.

Though you should know that I can hardly be personally blamed for his nature. I had no control over what Ventus kept in his heart.

[Video]

[lockandkeyblade]

Ventus?

What's he got to do do with any of this?

[Video]

[caliginose]

...so you have not been told? But then, it is no surprise...

Vanitas is no more than the darkness that was born in Ventus' own heart. If he is twisted and corrupt, it is only because that is what was hidden in the depths of my apprentice long before I removed such taint from him.

[Video] oh, typo. I'll get you for that later

[lockandkeyblade]

Vanitas... came from...

But that can't be right.

[Somebody like him could never come from Ven.]

[Besides! With who looks like who, that doesn't make any sense.]