"Deliberate or not, it worked," Lea said. "I mean, looking back it seems obvious, but at the time? If not for Roxas, Xion, Sora, and his friends... all of us would have probably kept marching along to Xemnas' drum without ever realizing we were being manipulated. Or at lest, how much we were being manipulated; I don't think anyone had any illusions about Xemnas' goals being exactly altruistic."