[Luke looks from the decorated wall to Riku. He doesn't quite believe him.]
Really?
[A heavy pause, and then he lets it go, giving the other boy a light smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes.]
I was thinking, there's no way I could ever do something like this. All I ever did was... You saw the nightmares. There were a lot of them. For the longest time, I thought I could only destroy.
But that's not quite true. Whenever people tell you what you can and can't do, they're usually wrong. [He holds his arms out.] Even if it's temporary-- even if it takes a lot of energy to make something like this-- it's still better than the alternative. Right?
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Really?
[A heavy pause, and then he lets it go, giving the other boy a light smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes.]
I was thinking, there's no way I could ever do something like this. All I ever did was... You saw the nightmares. There were a lot of them. For the longest time, I thought I could only destroy.
But that's not quite true. Whenever people tell you what you can and can't do, they're usually wrong. [He holds his arms out.] Even if it's temporary-- even if it takes a lot of energy to make something like this-- it's still better than the alternative. Right?