Twenty-Second Keychain-[Action]

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[After about 11 days, the Malnosso finally decided to return Roxas back to the village. He's walking pretty slowly with an almost-limp, the usual cuts and bruises from kidnapping on him and few feathers missing from his wings, but the most noticeable mark is the bleeding gash on the left side of his chest soaking through his shirt. He gets about as far as outside building two before he has to stop moving and hits the ground]

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(looks up at Axel and blinks a bit to focus) Axel?

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[WHAT DO I DO. DX just like standing there in disbelief staring at him]

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[Hey 'sup it's a Xigbar. He may or may not have been lurking nearby for the last couple of days. But he's gonna say 'told you so'. Not yet anyway.]

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[a little preoccupied at the moment, so probably wont be noticing Xigbar's presence for a long time]

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[No problem~. He can be patient.]

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[sitting up and looking at him, but not really saying anything]

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Hey.

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Hey. [starts working on getting to his feet]

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[grabs Roxas' right arm to help him up]

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[gets to his feet and looks up at Axel again]

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...think you can make it inside?

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I'm fine. [Axel might notice the bleeding on his chest has slowed to a pretty-much stop and some of his bruises have faded because of Rinoa's Cure spell]

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Right.

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...I'm sorry.

[flaring]

And just what are you sorry for?

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I wasn't paying attention. And if I was, they wouldn't have got to me.

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Don't think you could've stopped 'em, Roxas.

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I had the Keyblades though.

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Just—don't worry about that right now.

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But they got away with it.

[flaring]

They always do.

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I could have stopped them.

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Roxas.

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...Sora could have. Sora would have, I bet.

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Sora was here too wasn't he? Which means he's just as powerless against them as the rest of us.