[Even though she doesn't move or flinch, he's still careful, gentle when he pulls back the hood then reaches up to pull the blindfold back from his right eye. For all that he can 'see' well enough even with it, he is going to need true sight to make sure.
He flinches in surprise when he opens his eyes, and the first name that comes to his lips is not hers but Kairi's – but it's wrong, it's not her, for all that for just a second it's her that he sees. The glimpse of red melds into black, the swerve of her bangs changing before his minds eye; he knows this face, he knows her, her name is-]
Xion!
[He lets go of the blindfold in surprise, letting fall back over his eye as memories start snapping back into place and the pieces line up in order again, blurs sharpening to clarity, and he would be wondering how he could ever have forgotten, except...
He knows the how's and the why's only too well. He knows the necessity of it.]
I'm so sorry.
[If he had come with her to Twilight Town, if he had been less focused on preparing for Roxas, maybe... Maybe he could have spared her that last fight at least, even if the results ultimately remain the same.]
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He flinches in surprise when he opens his eyes, and the first name that comes to his lips is not hers but Kairi's – but it's wrong, it's not her, for all that for just a second it's her that he sees. The glimpse of red melds into black, the swerve of her bangs changing before his minds eye; he knows this face, he knows her, her name is-]
Xion!
[He lets go of the blindfold in surprise, letting fall back over his eye as memories start snapping back into place and the pieces line up in order again, blurs sharpening to clarity, and he would be wondering how he could ever have forgotten, except...
He knows the how's and the why's only too well. He knows the necessity of it.]
I'm so sorry.
[If he had come with her to Twilight Town, if he had been less focused on preparing for Roxas, maybe... Maybe he could have spared her that last fight at least, even if the results ultimately remain the same.]