[Video, Ghost event]

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Lea wasn't sure what to make of the ghostly forms wandering Haven. They certainly didn't seem to be doing any harm, at least not yet, but... they still bore watching. He wondered if Death knew about these spirits, or had allowed them in. He was just considering trying to contact said Guardian when he noticed something.

Namely, that one of the ghosts looked familiar.]

Flit...?

[Lea almost can't believe it at first. But now that he thinks about it, hadn't Death said something awhile back about him getting a chance to talk to her himself...?]

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[Video] -> Action

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[Blacker-than-black eye sockets gaze intently at the video feed for a moment, then...]

ONE MOMENT. STAY WHERE YOU ARE.

[The video feed cuts, but before Lea has a chance to really wonder what Death's up to . . . the tall, robed skeleton is there. The manifestation stepped up to the ghostly girl, laying a bone hand on her head, then crouching to gaze into her eyes. Death seems to search her for a moment - actually, he's using her as a sort of focus to search /himself/, other facets of his being that exist across the realities. Finally, he stands and turns to Lea.]

YOU KNEW HER. YOU JUST DO NOT REMEMBER HER. NO ONE DOES.

SHE WAS KNOWN AS XION. SHE DID NOT HAVE A TRUE EXISTENCE OF HER OWN. SHE WAS CREATED FROM THE MEMORIES OF ANOTHER. SORA. SORA'S NOBODY, ROXAS, DEFEATED AND ABSORBED HER, REGAINING THE MEMORIES THAT SHE HAD HELD AND REPRESENTED. WHEN THAT HAPPENED, SHE CEASED TO EXIST AS A SEPARATE ENTITY, AND ALL THOSE WHO HAD MET HER, INCLUDING YOU, FORGOT HER, AS IF SHE HAD NEVER EXISTED.

[Action]

[hotheadwarmheart]

[Though Lea will deny it later, he jumps a little at Death's sudden appearance. He murmurs to himself as he shuts off his own drone.]

Wonder if it's that startling when I do it...

[Death wastes no time getting down to business, though. The ghost girl stares back at Death as he looks into her eyes. Oddly, she seems to smile slightly as he does so, though her eyes remain sad.

When Death stands up and makes his pronouncement, though, Lea's eyes widen in shock.]

I... forgot her?

[He is plainly disturbed by the notion, though the more he thinks about it, the more sense it makes. The mention of Roxas, though, catches his attention. That plus the fact that she's here, now, haunting him...]

...We were close, weren't we? Her and me... and probably Roxas too.

[Action]

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I DO NOT KNOW. BUT IF YOU FEEL THAT TO BE THE CASE, YOU ARE PROBABLY CORRECT.

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[hotheadwarmheart]

[Lea frowns thoughtfully, gaze straying from Death back to Xion's ghost. Her slight smile broadens a little, and she nods once, slowly. A confirmation.]

...I guess we were.

Though I'm still not sure how she could've been- [he abruptly cuts off as he recalls something.] No, wait... Vexen's Replica program! It had to be! I'd thought that the Riku Replica was the only successful one, but there's no other way she could be what you described.

...I wonder how I reacted to that news? If I knew at all.

[Those are questions Death can't really answer though, so Lea moves on to one that he might be able to.]

You said she ceased to be a separate entity. But if she was absorbed into Roxas, and then Roxas into Sora... does that mean she's still alive somewhere inside him?