[The sun has almost set by the time they arrive back at Tenna and Riku actually finds the head to give the all-clear on Sora's missing status. The last few days have been too long, too exhausting and he doesn't even want to think what might have happened, if not for Splendor's anti-violence rule... what he might have found himself forced to do, if
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[ not a happy sounding Kid, no not at all ]
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[That is about everything Riku is willing to say on this for now. He'll start worrying about Vanitas once he stops feeling the urge just to let himself pass out on the spot.]
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Momentarily, meaning?
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Meaning that he won't be able to harm anyone for a while at least.
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Oh wow, you look awful. Have you slept at all?
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Do you really want me to answer that?
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S-sorry! U-um, standard question? Ehehe...
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I'm not angry. It's just been a long week.
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[He hesitates there, and it's funny because once it used to be the other way around. Now he almost doesn't even think about using Ansem's name. Things are different now though; different to how they were when he had arrived at Splendor. Mickey had been right to tell him that he couldn't keep it up and telling - trusting - Shiki had been a first step, but... too many people were getting hurt; Sora had gotten hurt because he hadn't had any way to be sure whether 'Ansem' could be trusted and when he thinks about it that way; this all is as much his fault as it was Vanitas'.
Finally he sighs. It's time to drop the pretense for good.]
Riku. It's Riku.
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[It's an oath and a promise, not to Nura, but to Sora and himself. He has given it before to Aqua, and it's one that he would always give again in a heart beat, because in the end this has (almost) always been his heart's desire, even when he had wrapped himself in darkness, to protect the people close to his heart. He hasn't done a good job in that; never, really, in his eyes, but in this he is selfish, because protecting them is his job and he won't let that fall to anyone else.]
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[Even though he says that; he can't keep the tiredness out of his voice and to some part he doesn't even try.]
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You sound sad.
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It's nothing. The last week was just exhausting.
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