audience - axelea

[cyclists]

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[leaberator]

It's not that weird. You kinda get along with him back home, don't you?

[cyclists]

[Just. Making a face.] I guess. But that's different. He's not...like this back home.

[He gets along better with Isa than Saix, and yet. It's weird. There's a pause.]

...I don't know what to do next.

[leaberator]

He's less of a jerk, you can say it.

[ less of a xehanort. anyway-- ]

... About everything?

[cyclists]

Yeah. [Does not specify which he means, but it's both.] I know what I want to do, but doing it is different than what has to happen.

[leaberator]

So... what is it that you wanna do?

[cyclists]

Find another way. Keep you guys safe. Stop all of this, and protect Lune.

[...] It sort of feels like we were set up to lose.

[leaberator]

I wouldn't call it a loss quite yet. Don't count us out 'til we're done for real, you know?

[ but he pauses, deliberating ]

... But I won't disagree this all feels like one lousy set up.

[cyclists]

I'm not counting anybody out. We still have a few days. But if it was just a set up, what even was the point?

[leaberator]

... I wish I could tell you.

[cyclists]

...are you okay? You keep asking me, but I haven't asked you.

[leaberator]

'Course. It takes a lot more than that to get me down.

[ ... and, outside liar's land-- ]

... 'Sides, you guys are still around so far.

[cyclists]

Right..that's true. [He, like, half-believes that because he knows how Axel is and also he's seen enough memories by now to figure Axel wouldn't say anything anyway.]

It's the "so far" I'm worried about. I think Xion's scared of what's going to happen to me and Lune, and Naminé brought me cheesecake to prepare for tomorrow.

[So. They're doing fineish.]

[leaberator]

[ he hums ]

... We gotta take it one day at a time. There's no point worrying about the future if we don't even know what tomorrow's gonna end up looking like.

[cyclists]

I have more answers than you do for once, remember? [Just pointing out that he knows exactly what happened last night.] But last week wasn't so bad. You guys worked well together.

[leaberator]

[ that's not what he said last week but you know what he will let that pass ]

Hey, you might know what happened last night, but you still don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow. [ :T ] Not like I was bein' literal in the first place.

[cyclists]

[Convenient narrative, okay??]

I guess so. [:T] ...after tomorrow, Lune and I are going to have to figure out what our next plan is. I think we want to get past this before we make any final decisions.

[leaberator]

Yeah. Can't really decide anything until we know for sure what things are gonna look like.

[cyclists]

So what do we do with the rest of today until then?

[leaberator]

Take a nap.

[ that's his answer for everything ]

[cyclists]

Funny. Think that's even an option for either of us?

[leaberator]

Prolly not, but it definitely should be.

[cyclists]

When this is all over, all five of us can take a vacation before we get back to work finding Sora. [That's not gonna happen, they'll all rest for maybe a day and immediately get back to it. Still, it's nice to daydream sometimes. And sometimes weird to include Isa, but whatever.]

[leaberator]

My vacation is gonna be taking a thirty-six hour nap! You guys can drag me wherever you want, I'm not waking up.

[cyclists]

You're gonna be too heavy to drag! You can sleep when we get to wherever we're going.

[leaberator]

[ he cackles ]

Too heavy? Work on those muscles! What kinda Keyblade wielder are you, if you can't even carry me places?