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[dawnward]

[A dial tone, a ring, and then silence.]

"Leave a message and I'll get back to you."

--[Click.]

Comments

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

Well, here, your body is destroyed and all that's left is the darkness that was once in your heart, taking on a corporeal shape. If you're strong enough, you might retain something that looks somewhat humanoid. If you're not, then you're reduced to nothing but a little hunched over figure with claws and only a desire to take.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

"Here"? Is that what you claim happens in this place?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

It happens in any world, if the person can do it, Edgeworth. Can't say I've attempted it here and I really don't want to.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

Then you claim to be able to do the same?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can. I still carry Xehanort's darkness inside him; he used my body to try and do all of that before.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

Can you tell if this one would be able to do likewise?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

More than likely. I can try and find out what he knows.

[He pauses.]

The timeline is off, somehow. I met Terra ten years ago and he knows this Xehanort well. If that's true, then the man I know as Xehanort isn't...

[He doesn't like how these pieces are fitting.]

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

Isn't what?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

[It would explain why Terra smells like Xemnas, why the gold eyes are there. But he's against Xehanort, so why- It doesn't fit.]

...Nothing. I was just thinking aloud.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

It's a strange name, "Xehanort." It's not a title, is it?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

It's an anagram. No Heart X. X being the symbol people have taken to mean 'nothing', without emotion, without feeling. The Nobodies, those without hearts, put x's in their names to distinguish themselves from their previous forms.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

[A long pause...]

They resemble their previous forms?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

Nobodies do, only if their hearts and wills were strong enough. Even after the heart has left the body, if they possessed a strong enough will...their bodies would reform as husks. That's the shell of a Nobody, in a sense. They come back looking like their human forms.

Most don't. There's only ever been thirteen known Nobodies.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

Several of whom are here.

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

Four, yes. Ah- I guess then it would be fourteen Nobodies. I forgot one.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

Roxas. Axel? And - Xion...I cannot identify the fourth.

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

Xion isn't a Nobody. Naminé is. And the fourth is someone from the Organization.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

[Well that BREAKS THE PATTERN, RIKU.]

Who, precisely?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

[WELL HE'S BEING HONEST.]

His name is Zexion.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

I've not met this individual.

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

He's concealed himself well. He's one of the ones who kidnapped me.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

[An immediate scowl, and when Edgeworth speaks again, it's clear that he now actively wants to find this individual.]

He has not spoken up over the network to date, or does he go by an assumed name?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

He goes by an assumed name and he's helped people. You won't find him.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

I will if you tell me his assumed name.

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

You're not getting it.