diatu | The icing on the cake

Xion had spent much of the last month trying to avoid people - and failing miserably - and trying to find a perfect sunset watching spot. Until she could figure out the spell to take away everyone's memories so that she could end herself, as she knew she had to, she had to stay away from people.

But she was still Xion. And still drawn to the same things she always had been. A good ledge from which to watch the sunset, ice cream, and seashells.

Finally, at the start of the month she had found the perfect place. She didn't know how she had missed it, given it was a giant clock tower. But she found it, and for once luck was with her. No one else had been there.

Every day since she'd been buying three ice creams and heading to the top of the tower to watch the sunset. Every day.

Which was where she would be, just before sunset, a small touch of black, a familiar black coat, sitting on the ledge of a clocktower, watching the sky.....

Maybe not something most people would notice. But then most people weren't used to thinking of clock towers that way. Also, Lea really is freakishly tall....

Her hood is still up, so even he couldn't tell who it was, but really...who could he remember that sat with him, eating ice cream at the end of the day?

Threaded | Flat

Lea sighed, stretching a bit as he walked across the courtyard. What a day. He'd managed to find his dormitory and stake out a bunk for himself, then somehow to make it to the cafeteria for dinner without getting lost any further. At least the food had been reasonably good, even if some of the vegetables were unfamiliar. Personally he thought it could use more spice to it to, but then his tastes tended to run a bit too spicy for most people, so he couldn't really complain too much there.

Now though, he wanted little else than to go back to his dorm and crash into bed. Maybe tomorrow he'd be able to figure out what the heck he was going to do. Or maybe he'd get lucky and this would all turn out to have been a weird dream.

When he happened to glance up at the clock tower in the middle of a stretch though, he saw something that drove that thought from his mind quickly enough to set a new speed record. A smallish figure dressed all in black was sitting on the clock tower ledge, apparently watching the sunset. It couldn't be... could it? Lea hurried to the clock tower's entrance and began to climb the stares hoping that the figure would still be there when he arrive and that it hadn't just been his mind and heart playing tricks on him....

Thankfully, Lea was able to guide Xion back to the Ka dormitory at the converted Makerion Keep without incident. They entered into the common room, which of all the rooms of the keep, showed the most evidence of its hasty conversion, with the furnishings being somewhat sparser than those in other dorms, and much of what there was looking like it was second-hand. It might remind Xion a bit of the Gray Area back at the Castle That Never Was in its sparseness, but it was more inviting by several orders of magnitude. And was definitely more colorful.

Fortunately the snack cabinet had been installed, tucked away in an corner, and it had a portion that was magically chilled so Lea was able to tuck the extra ice cream bar in there. And the one other major amenity that Lea was very glad they'd thought to install- especially at this time of year- was the big fireplace. It cast the large room in a warm, orange glow, doing a great deal to make what could look like a somewhat drab stone-walled room look homey and lived in.

Lea paused in front of the fireplace, pulling off his gloves and rubbing his hands a bit to get rid of the chill. "Ah... that's better," he said. "Though man, I'm gonna miss being able to conjure up a fireball whenever I need one, especially if this weather holds." He idly wondered if there was a spell for that here. He figured there probably was, though he doubted it would be half as useful- or versatile- as his own fire had been.

(OOC: Takes place after all but Sora's threads in this log.)

They were lucky this sunset. It was a reasonably clear, and not too cold. All in all a perfect night for the explanation that Lea knew had to happen.

Though even as they both settled in with their ice creams, Lea wondered where he would even begin?

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The Big Explanation