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You have magic too? [Oh god. That was one less thing he was going to have to explain then since so many people seemed to be unfamiliar with magic as a real thing.]

Heartless...they're creatures that manifest when someone loses their heart. Their heart becomes a Heartless--well, the darkness inside it twists the heart to form them. [It's confusing, he knows.] They got their name because they don't feel anything and just attack everything. Try to devour worlds and steal more hearts to create more Heartless. It's..a never ending cycle.

So, there's this darkness... Like all their bad feelings or something? [ That's his... best guess. Sora's talking hearts, after all. Though the idea of things running around specifically to target and rip out your heart and then use it like that certainly sounds... swell.

You know.

About as swell as getting riddling with lead.

Don't ever try that at home, kid. Or anywhere for that matter. There's definitely a frown to his tone now. ]

And they went after all those worlds.. I take it they aren't easy to get rid of once they're there, too. [ He could see them very easily multiplying. The higher the population, the more... hosts basically.

He's going to really hope they aren't a thing here. ]

Yeah--it's..basically the embodiment of evil. The polar opposite to everything that the light stands for. It consumes people if they fall too deep into it.

[Like Riku had fallen.]

No, not really. The keyblade can destroy them and magic works on them to an extent. But I..a lot of my friends lost their worlds for awhile. We managed to get them back, seal away the darkness and then stop the people trying to release it again...

[But the damage was still done. There had been a lot of pain and a lot of suffering that went on and Sora wanted nothing more than to be able to fix it all.

To take it all away.]

Anywhere there's light, there's darkness. So the heartless can be anywhere they want to be.

[ Embodiment of evil, huh... Sounds pretty farfetched, he thinks. But the kid sounds so serious and there's already so much he's heard of before. It might not necessarily be that black and white, but negative emotions do tend to breed negative reactions, intentional or not. That he can grasp very easily. How even the bravest and most honorable of men can fall..

He grips his tablet a bit tightly at the thought. ] But wait, you just said anywhere there's light, there's darkness, so... doesn't that mean there's no way you can actually stop them for good? You said you've been sealing them away, but that doesn't guarantee they'll be stopped for good, does it. No wonder you're having so much trouble with them.

Well, light and dark can't exist without one another, so they'll both always still be there. But we can find a balance--a way that both can exist without one overwhelming the other. At least..at least that's what I think. [So much had happened and they had learned so much during their Mark of Mastery exams, that it was hard to say--for sure--if they were going to make the right call.

But they had to try.]

I have faith in my friends, though. I know we'll stop Xehanort from destroying everything. We'll save Kingdom Hearts and make sure balance is restored.

Balance, huh.. Well, I guess that's true. [ At least in terms of going back to thinking about emotions. ...Man, this is trippy to think about though. To think so abstractly, talking about darkness and light as entities and yet also something more. Honestly, he's grasping at straws here sometimes, but he's trying, Sora. Thinking it over... ]

I mean, going back to talking about emotions, sometimes you have a valid reason to be angry or upset about things. It's just part of human nature, you know? If you took away all of that away, then even when things were wrong, I guess you wouldn't know the difference. Or... something like that. [ He's just going to be scratching his head some more... ] ..What do you mean by saving Kingdom Hearts though? Is that the world you're from?

It's kind of funny you say it like that because there was a whole group that we were fighting against that wanted to use to darkness to destroy everything so they could get their hearts back and feel emotions again.

[Hopefully he's not making your head hurt too much, Zack....

Because it's all about to get even weirder now.]

No--well, sort of? [Sora hums thoughtfully then.] Kingdom Hearts is..it's the heart of all worlds. It's what everything we know and experience comes from. All worlds are connected to it just like all people are. So if we lose Kingdom Hearts, we lose everything.

[ Oh, his head is perfectly fine. His brain is not melting what-so-ever. Not in the least.

..Yeah, that's a flat out lie there. But still, he pushes onward. His voice at least seems to perk up a bit not long after Sora's done telling his tale. ] -Oh! So, it's kinda like the Lifestream. Or at least what I hear about it. [ There's something kinda uncertain that touches his tone there, but.. ]

-But wait a minute, how's a group of people trying to get their hearts back? I mean once your heart's gone, it's gone, right? They become those heartless things.

What's the Lifestream?

[Your turn to a tell a story. Sora's confusing you so return the favor, Zack!]

If you destroy a Heartless, the hear they were made up of is freed and can return to Kingdom Hearts. [A pause. This was the part he didn't like.] If a Nobody is destroyed as well, a Nobody that pairs with one of the hearts, they can return to their true selves.

[ Too bad he doesn't believe in that Lifestream crap too hardcore.

Okay, no- he still does kinda get it or at least why people would want to.

But hold that thought for a second. ]

Okay, so you're saying.. you destroy a heartless, you take the heart back from it. Then, if you destroy these nobodies... they just- ... [ Yeah, okay. This makes a lot of sense. This is Zack over on the other side of things scrubbing his face. Seriously, what the fuck. ]

Anyway, as far as the Lifestream goes, some say it's where everyone goes when they die. Just this big... stream of energy under the surface of the planet. All your memories and emotions and whatever go back and some say that's where our souls even come from in the first place, like a cycle. [ He's... hoping he makes sense. ]

The body, soul and heart are reunited and they're a person again. [His tone is an apologetic one because he knows this is a lot. He's so sorry, Zack.

Sora takes in that explanation of the Lifestream slowly, rolling it around in his head before he makes a thoughtful sound.]

Yeah that does sound really similar to what Kingdom Hearts is. Maybe they're connected some how! I mean, all worlds are connected in some way, even if you don't know the others exist.

Right.. [ Never mind that sounds like all brands of crazy. Never mind you'd usually be dead if your heart got taken out and all that. Well, unless their hearts are completely different from his.

Man, he just doesn't know anymore.

But at least Sora moves on and he can focus more on other things. Doesn't mean he's not still scratching his head, but at least it's no longer talk of souls and hearts and bodies being torn apart and reunited. That really does sound like one of those bad dreams someone would'a had lately... ]

Apparently so. I mean I can't see any other explanation for how we'd all be here otherwise. I certainly wouldn't be talking to you right now. -Not that that's a problem, but you know.

[Sora can't help but laugh a bit.]

No, I get it. My best guess is that this world is one of the worlds that was off the radar for a long time. Something triggered us all to be pulled from our homes and this world collected us--most likely because it needs us to save it.

[ That gets something of a humored hum in turn although he turns serious again not long after. ]

Something like that. [ Maybe. He's not so sure just what it wants sometimes, but the cryptic messages seem to have least been pointing in that kind of direction. ]

We really got our work cut out for us.

It sure seems like it. But we can do it. Whatever this place throws at us, we can all handle it and we'll get through it.

[The statement isn't full of his usual bubbling optimism. There's a more serious tone to it because Sora knows it's not going to be easy. It'll never be easy. They would all get through it, though, because for any of them to survive it was going to take all of them working together.]

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