[ Video ] ~ A Necessary Vacation ~
[This room looks like a graveyard.
[There are twelve 'headstones' arranged in neat rows, each as tall as a grown man. And before each marker is a brightly lit panel laying on the floor. The panels all display something different: a book, a shield, a scythe, a claymore.... Two of the panels are lit blue: they show a sitar and a pair of chakrams. All the others are red.
[... Except for one. And it's that one - the one showing two crossed keyblades - that Axel is sitting in front of.
[That one is colored purple.
[The redhead stares at the color, his face unreadable behind the hand resting over his mouth. The moments pass in silence, as though Nautilus is expecting him to do something more. Like it's expecting some show of what emotions the Nobody has regained. But his face remains as it is: eerily blank. And, eventually, the feed cuts out.]
[Later, the video turns on intentionally. Axel's standing with his arms folded, looking for all the world like he didn't just lose another big group of people from his world. Including Naminé ... again.]
I'm taking a vacation. Gonna go to Christmas Town. Seems like an appropriate location this time of year, right?
I'm leaving soon, so I'm gonna have to cancel that "yes", Lelouch.
[He doesn't elaborate, knowing the Ashura will know what he means.]
If any of you that I know wanna tag along, you're welcome to. Sorry to the strangers: this trip's not for you.
[There are twelve 'headstones' arranged in neat rows, each as tall as a grown man. And before each marker is a brightly lit panel laying on the floor. The panels all display something different: a book, a shield, a scythe, a claymore.... Two of the panels are lit blue: they show a sitar and a pair of chakrams. All the others are red.
[... Except for one. And it's that one - the one showing two crossed keyblades - that Axel is sitting in front of.
[That one is colored purple.
[The redhead stares at the color, his face unreadable behind the hand resting over his mouth. The moments pass in silence, as though Nautilus is expecting him to do something more. Like it's expecting some show of what emotions the Nobody has regained. But his face remains as it is: eerily blank. And, eventually, the feed cuts out.]
[Later, the video turns on intentionally. Axel's standing with his arms folded, looking for all the world like he didn't just lose another big group of people from his world. Including Naminé ... again.]
I'm taking a vacation. Gonna go to Christmas Town. Seems like an appropriate location this time of year, right?
I'm leaving soon, so I'm gonna have to cancel that "yes", Lelouch.
[He doesn't elaborate, knowing the Ashura will know what he means.]
If any of you that I know wanna tag along, you're welcome to. Sorry to the strangers: this trip's not for you.