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[dawnward]

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

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--[Click.]

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[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.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

[Snapped:]

Because God forbid a criminal be brought to justice. Sometimes I wonder if you do not have more sympathy for criminals than for their victims.

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

He hasn't done anything to hurt the people here besides me. And unlike you, I keep an eye on everyone, criminals and victims.

Besides, there's no proof of what he did to me.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, "unlike me"?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

When we spoke of Yaha, you immediately discounted his own past as a factor in what's made him a monster now.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

No. What I discounted was his past as a factor in whether or not he should be allowed to continue on as before.

What's more, Mr. Riku, he's told me of his past. What he's suffered is that someone did not love him back. Tell me: is there any more to it than that?

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

His people were killed and tortured in front of him.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

[A slight pause.]

He has not so much as mentioned such a thing.

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

He did to me.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

I'll take him at his word in that case, because there's no point in speculating on whether he is lying in this instance - notwithstanding that he has before. I'll simply say that while that is a tragedy, it does not negate the fact of his murders now.

[walkthedawn.livejournal.com]

It doesn't negate them, no, but it doesn't change that he's broken.

[mentis-reae.livejournal.com]

And I don't care. The psychiatric hospital can work on fixing him. So long as he is breaking other people, he cannot be allowed to continue as he has been.