maybe soon the storm will be tired of blowing

[quackery]

Date & Time: After zombies
Location: A corridor on the moonbase
Characters: Lea and Ahiru
Summary: A reunion!
Warnings: Nopeeee

[It's only after she's checked with her friends to make sure she's alright that she leaves her room in the housing ward, wandering towards the cafeteria. She's occupied with her thoughts, though, enough that she isn't paying attention to what's in front of her. Soon enough, this lack of attention leads her to bump into someone; a very tall someone, she realizes as she tilts her head up to apologize, only to see—

She pauses, shocked.]

Axel?

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[promises_to_keep]

... Wait it does? [Well there's a first.] People can lose their hearts where you come from too?

[He didn't think she was from a world within his universe, but maybe he's mistaken. When she asks how he got it back, though, he grimaces a little and rubs the back of his neck.] That... requires a bit more explanation, ah. [He starts walking again.] So, where I come from, there are monsters called Heartless. They consume hearts, and if you get attacked by one, you can lose yours. There are other ways, that's just the easiest to explain. So when my world was destroyed by them, I lost my heart.

But... that's not all, ah. [He absently presses his hand to his chest, then pulls it away, fidgeting.] When you... when you lose your heart, you're split into two pieces: the Heartless, which is a misnomer because that's the piece with the heart; and the Nobody, which is what I was when you knew me before. When I was called Axel, it was because I was the half of me that no longer had a heart.

[He pauses.] Follow?

[quackery]

Mhm! I mean, it wasn't me so you don't need to worry about it, but - yeah, they can.

[As she listens, though, walking alongside him as she does. She tries to follow as best she can, but the difference from what she knows of heartlessness makes it hard to understand. More than that, though, it's just strange - years of experiencing different worlds have made her somewhat accustomed to that, but not accustomed enough to keep up with this well.]

Wait, but when you were here before, you seemed all... Feelings-ish and stuff. Like, you didn't seem like you didn't have any emotions!

[promises_to_keep]

[Huh, he really hadn't expected her to get what he was talking about, but maybe heart loss is a more common malady than he'd considered. Well that's kind of depressing.

[He pulls at the back of his neck when she accuses him of being 'feelings-ish'.]

Well... the jury's still out on that, really. I've heard the theory that the body tries to replace that which is lost, so maybe I'd been regrowing a heart, but that just sounds creepy. I always just kinda figured that since we remembered what feelings had been like, it was kinda like muscle memory, you know?

[A shrug and he smiles faintly.] All I know for sure is, I don't think I'd be the person I am now if I hadn't known Roxas before. Emotions or otherwise, he made me wanna be a better person. [Even if he kinda blew it in execution.]