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Dining Room

Deciding that he was better off listening to Elizabeth, Sora smiled at the pretty woman and looked for a seat as well.

"Come and have breakfast with us too, Elizabeth!" Sora responded warmly. "You too, Kairi, Will."

The need for sleep was pushed to the back of his mind as he gazed at all the wonderful dishes that had been set in front of them. There was chicken, ham, sausages, eggs....

Man, this was the best sort of breakfast he'd ever seen in a long, long time!

Delighted at the massive amount of dishes that were laid before him, Sora nodded to everyone else as a gesture of politeness before digging in, his stomach already demanding lots and lots of food to fill it up.

Port Royal - Docks/Copter

Well if this wasn’t one helluva mess? The Turk frowned, turning to head into the copter. If anything, he could wait for Tseng, Elena Rufus to get their asses into gear since there was nothing left in this world anyway. They’d have to pick up Marina and possibly Vin.

What was weird was the reappearance of the Heartless guy on the message board. Cards? That sent you do different worlds? Thanks but no thanks. He’d stick with good ol’ fashioned technology. Magic screwed him over too much in the past.

Just as Reno entered the cockpit, the sound of electric static filtered through the speakers. Sighing, he took a seat and grabbed the transmitter.

“Yeah? It’s Reno. What’s going on?”

”………. Heartless….. overrun… help…. dying… too many…”

With a snap, Reno turned off the receiver muttering something along the lines of “Yeah yeah yeah…” He stood and stuck his head out of the copter’s door shouting, ”Hey! Get your asses in here! We need to head back to the Planet!”

Well. That was polite.

Casting an acidic look in the redhead's general direction even as he watched Rufus with Elena, Tseng knew that Reno was right. They had to get Marina and probably Vincent and head back to Gaia. There was nothing they could find here, which meant that they were most likely on their own.

Not that he minded, really. He liked depending on himself as it was, anyway.

Deciding not to intrude on both his boss's and his subordinate's privacy, Tseng merely made his way back to the copter, a hand idly fiddling at his cufflinks before he entered the aircraft. He knew that with Reno's voice, the other two probably heard him, which meant that he didn't have to repeat what Reno had announced.

"We'll go to the Pridelands first," Tseng murmured as he settled into his seat. Under ordinary circumstances, the Turk Commander would have frowned upon such blatant display of affection, especially coming from a Turk who was still on active duty, but he was known for his occasional exceptions. This was probably one of them.

Elena had proven to be a resourceful rookie, and despite her numerous flaws and mistakes, Tseng trusted her with the President's life. Hence, the current decision to leave first. Besides, space was needed in the copter for the other two they were about to pick up, after all.

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Trying -- and failing -- to not look like a walking famine, Sora took a moment's reprieve from shovelling food in his mouth with unbridled enthusiasm to give Namine a cheerful wave. She had been quiet lately, and even though Sora didn't quite remember very many things about her - he felt like he should, though - he knew that the blonde girl was Kairi's Nobody, and that she was pretty decent. And more importantly, Roxas liked her.

Not being one who was overly nosy, he nodded and said a bright "Good morning" before going back to his food. Hey, he was a sixteen year old boy after all, and they needed plenty of nutrition, like cookies and various fattening breakfast foods that his mother would definitely put a ban on, especially if she knew that he was ingesting said foods with the tenacity of a bear that was preparing for a long winter's worth of hibernation.

OOC: Welcome back, Noey! We missed you!! heart heart

Tseng simply nodded in reply to Rufus' question, recognizing the faint smirk on his boss's features. He was most probably thinking of the two of them as lions and having a quiet laugh about it all.

Though, come to think of it, it was pretty amusing, especially for Marina, but he sure as hell was not going to say anything to anyone else about it, much less about his occasional jibe about 'mating season' - although that seemed to encourage her more than anything.

"We're going to the Pridelands, sir," the Wutaian murmured evenly, his fingers fiddling with his cufflinks absently. "Would you like to take the other copter?" You know Marina and Elena don't get along very well."

Okay, maybe that was a mild lie, because Marina didn't seem to be as antagonistic to Elena as she was to Reno, but then again, maybe it was all in his imagination.

Women were strange creatures, and he had long given up on trying to understand their ways. Even then, the real reason for the question was that Tseng knew Rufus had an interest in the rookie, and it would do his subordinate some good if she had some alone time with Rufus.

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A soft giggle escaped her and one hand lifted to her mouth -- an unconscious mannerism that seemed to do well on it's own. Her eyes turned to Roxas and she offered him a shyer smile before her attention was once again turned away towards the food and drink that were being passed her way.

She watched them all, lifting her own little shovels of food to her lips. Save for the sound of Sora all but gulping down his food, there wasn't much noise at the table -- yet. She looked at Miss Elizabeth and quietly admired the classic beauty that emanated from her. The woman had been so nice to them and Namine couldn't help but wonder if people like this had come into her life before. Probably not though, when she thought about it.

Her thought wandered back a bit to one of the many incidents well before this. Hello, witch. Broken any memory strands today? Destroyed anyone's lives through the memories of others?

Spearing a piece of her breakfast with her fork she looked up and covertly checked the other faces at the table, in the hopes of distracting herself from the memory.

The sight of Roxas made her smile. She seemed to be doing that a lot around him. Uh-oh, came to mind, but she shook it way inwardly. And then there was Sir Will. She frowned at the tall young man at the end of the table who seemed to look worried and before she could stop it, her mouth and her questions ran ahead of her.

"Is something wrong?"

Nosy. The word floated and bounced around in her head.

She turned her eyes back down to the food and hoped that her voice had been too soft to be noticed. The chances of that though, were rather slim.




OOC: biggrin D hee~! *huggles* It's great to be back. Am still catching up majorly to most of the stuff I've missed, but I'm slowly integrating these into Namine and her thoughts. If something isn't quite right, call me on it guys, okay? Will edit as necessary. heart

Dining Table

Unlike Sora, Roxas ate his meal at a moderate and easy pace. He did, however, eye his brother over wearily as he continued to shovel as much food as possible in his mouth. To the occupants at the table (or at least Roxas), it looked as if Sora was trying to break the worlds’ fastest eating record. At least he was eating now. Who knew how bad he’d get if he had gone to sleep first?

Then the Roxas stopped completely as Namine walked into the room just after waking from a night’s rest. That night… He was truly glad that his fight with Aros had not turned into the full blown disaster that his heart expected. He couldn’t even bear to see Namine before then. All he could think was what would happen to her if he failed… How he would leave her behind with Aros to do as he pleased…

”Is something wrong?”

Namine was sharp. Roxas wanted to kick himself for making her worry. He didn’t want to burden her with his troubled thoughts, especially ones that he should have moved on from.

Removing his look of worry and exchanging it with a smile, he smiled, “No! Nothing! I’m fine, Namine. Thanks though.”

He paused and glanced over at Sora and the others. They really were going to have to leave them and for how long, he didn’t know. There was that possibility that they would never see these people again if disaster awaited them within the World That Never Was. If that was what awaited them, then Roxas wanted to remember this moment for as long as they could. Here, everyone was happy and enjoying a meal with those they loved… that was something he never wanted to forget.

Subconsciously, a hand slipped into his pants pocket, fingers sliding over the card: the key to other worlds.

They would have to leave and soon.