[she may be pushing the optimism a little far, and on some level, roxas may realize that too. but all the same, he doesn't want to think of the worst situation. he doesn't really want to think these people were killed, destroyed, forcibly taken from their homes, or something just as bad.

it's hard to shake the feeling that there is something like that, if only because nothing in this world ever seems quite right from the things he's learned. but he's trying, and really considering what she says, even if he's not quick to fully give in to that belief.]

So just... the remains of where they used to live, but they could have moved somewhere else. [he muses for a moment, more or less repeating what they've both already established.]

...Do you know how long she was with CERES? [because he more or less knows nothing about this.]