"The Organization isn't where any of us belonged," Lea said. "For a lot of reasons. Some of which are gonna require a lot of explaining. But we were all being used, and that's not a situation anyone should be forced to stay in."

"And we don't know the limits of what Naminé's powers were," he said. "If you'd gotten to her earlier..." He trailed off, realizing that that would just be arguing in circles. "Either way, I guess we'll never know. But it's not selfish, wanting to stay with your friends, even if it feels that way. And needing time to decide to do something like that doesn't make you a coward. Just being able to decide to do something like that is really brave; I'm not sure I'd have been able to, if it had been me."

He sighed and finally sat down fully on the cold stone ledge, the exhaustion of the day and the emotional revelations he'd just been through beginning to catch up with him again. "It's a little cold for a beach day right now around here, even if Roxas does turn up," he said. Privately, he very much hoped that he would, but hesitated to say so out loud, for fear of jinxing it. "Back home though? That's what I'm hoping. After all, if Ienzo and the others can find a way to get Roxas out of Sora safely, there's no reason they wouldn't be able to do the same for you too. And I did promise."

"Right now though? I'm beat," he said. "There's a ton of stuff we need to catch up on, and stuff I need to explain, and it's really an insane amount to get memorized, but that's likely gonna have to wait til tomorrow. Right now I just wanna eat this ice cream, then hopefully find my way back to the dorm and go to bed."

Which reminded him of something. "What dorm did they stick you in, by the way?", he asked. "I'm in Ka."