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[At first he doesn't even know what to make of this machine he's been handed. He's not sure how he got here, what he's supposed to do, what these people want from him, where Sora is... nothing makes sense. And he doesn't even have the comfort of having someone to blame for it.

After a few seconds of staring at the screen, he starts to type, pressing the keys a little harder than necessary.]

What's.

Going.

On.

[There's a pronounced pause before he decides that this isn't working. Maybe that's not specific enough. Maybe there's no one listening. Maybe he just doesn't get how this thing works.

Part of him wants to throw it at a wall, find a way out of here, and have done with it. Whatever "housing companions" he's supposed to have probably don't want him, anyway. He definitely doesn't want them. Just more people he'll lose when he gets back to where he's supposed to be.

For now, though, he's switching to video. He's hooded, still, so not much of his face can be seen, but he's staring at the screen with an expression of barely stable grim determination.]

Where's Sora?

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..."Oh"?

Yeah, that happened for me already. I wasn't sure it was you until just now.

You... were really good.

[A stuttering breath, almost a laugh--what, you're telling him how good he was after he attacked you? Really, Sora? You never stop, do you?

Still, that tells him what he wanted to know. Or at least implies it.]

But you won, right?

[He's letting himself be reassured by that sound. Just a little.]

I guess so. It felt more like you gave up and let me go. But I didn't really know what was going on, so maybe something else happened?

I mean, you could've introduced yourself, y'know.

That wasn't the point.

[But he's not going to explain that to you right now. You won't get it, anyway.

Now that he thinks about it, he's not surprised that you won. Winning wasn't the point, either.]

What was the point? Or... is going to be the point...

You know what I mean.

[Gonna have to spell it out, Roxas. You'll eventually learn that you always have to do this.]

[Nope.]

Nevermind. [It's almost fond. In a way.]

Hey, Sora... is there a way out of here?

[If he can get out without having to see Riku...]

[For a second, Sora frowns, the severity almost uncharacteristic, but he lets it pass and moves on.]

Unless someone shows up with a Gummi Ship, I think only the guys running the place can do anything about it.

...Why?

Who runs the place?

[Because whatever happens, all he knows is that he doesn't want to be here.]

The people you talked to when you showed up? Why?

Thanks.

[He'll just be going now. He doesn't know how to turn this thing off yet, though.]

[...He really doesn't like how you're ignoring specific select questions, dude.]

Roxas? Where are you?

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[Well, he's moving, now, Sora.]

I'm going to find them.

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Why? And I asked where you are, not where you're going.

[Your aloof whatever is reminding him of someone he just doesn't know who, right now.]

Where I am is about to be where I'm going.

[THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. THIS ISN'T WONDERLAND SO STOP SPEAKING IN RIDDLES]

That isn't an answer!

Oops.

[Now where did they go? And how does he turn this thing off so Sora will stop distracting him?]

[Okay, that does it. Sora is fumbling with the netbook and with some effort changing the thing to audio.]

Okay, okay, fine. There's probably somebody around where they dropped you off, if you really need to find somebody.

[What? You're... helping him? He'll just keep it on audio, not sure if he wants you seeing where he's going right now anyway.]

...Thanks.

[No actually he's just tricking you into staying downstairs so he can come find you. And hey, it's cool that you don't realize that that's why he switched it in the first place.]

Um, yeah.

[...He feels a little bad but it sounds like you're thinking about doing something stupid and rash since so far that's the only thing he really knows about you. So. He'll just be over here half-gliding down the stairs.]

[Come on. Sora, outsmarting him? He hasn't even considered the possibility. Which is particularly stupid since he's knows you're smarter than people sometimes give you credit for.

Okay... where to go from here. He'd gotten a little turned around at first, and he can't quite remember.]

[He's clumsy about it, so maybe it's a good thing that people drastically underestimate him.

He was kind of counting on it from you, considering how that fight went, but since you don't remember that anyway...

Anyway, he's trotting for the entrance because if he catches you in time then he won't have to go running around to find you in any of the other areas of the main floor.

...And he won't have to risk you accosting some poor bystander or something.]

[Hey. The bystanders are safe, okay. He just wants to find the people in charge.

He's heading toward that entrance now--you'd better be right about this, Sora. He hadn't seen anyone when he was there before, but he hadn't been looking then, either. Not that he's really trusting Sora's advice to be good one way or the other so he's figuring he might be looking for a while.]

[And he's taking this chance to just flip the communicator/computer/thing shut and shove it in one of his bottomless pockets of doom, and. Oh, cool, Roxas really did fall for it.

He'd raise his hand in greeting and be cheerful about it except that would be more likely to make Roxas just. Turn heel and go the other way immediately. So. Sora's not altering his trot.]

[...Oh.

Oh, he sees how it is. He'd expect a move like that from Riku, but not from you, Sora. Guess the whole "best friends" thing means something after all; you've rubbed off on each other.

He's scowling and back-pedaling instantly, back toward the way he came in.]

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