3i

31 Aug 2020

Summary: Pieces of the Riku Replica and Dark Riku are discovered. Even doesn't believe he can save them. Xion does.

Unexpected gifts—flashing code on a screen, a splintered heart, and shattered chains of memory. Xion saw her agony in what Riku had saved.

And my hope? She wondered.

Behind her, conversation.

"I can't save them! I haven't got the time or resources!" 

"I'll help, Even. We'll save Sora and the replicas. They're—"

"My failures, Riku."

Silence.

"Do you believe that?" Xion asked, turned. In Riku's eyes; sorrow, longing. In Even's eyes; shame, regret. 

Neither spoke.

"We'll do it," she said. "We'll save them all."

She turned back to the screen and saw two smiles reflected.

I'll bring them hope.

Read on the AO3. Read on Dreamwidth.
unFAQ for all fics here. Neocities comment options here and here.
Return to the Bottomless Darkness?