[If Terra were at all aware of the fact he's still wearing his armor, he might take it off. Alas, he's just awash in a sea of thoughts and questions and more thoughts and more questions here.
He doesn't seem to notice the major side-eye he's getting. Doesn't even seem to hear Sora when the younger Keybearer asks him how he knows Riku. He looks down at the ground between them and the business end of his Keyblade settles in the dirt.
Riku passed the exam. He showed the Mark. Riku's a Master.
But how? He doesn't even wield the Keyblade now. The way Riku tells it, he can't. He 'proved himself unworthy' of the weapon and it went to Sora instead. (Which makes no sense. Since when does the Keyblade do that?)
Riku's got all that darkness in his heart, too...
... Unless. Unless Sora's from some other point in the future? Some point past Riku's time... or the time Riku remembers waking up from? Like those Refugees who fell back asleep and when they woke from their pods again, they remembered living past the time the Storm supposedly hit their world. Almost as if they'd lost weeks' or months' or years' worth of memories. Except some of them actually got older, too. The pods correcting a mistake they made or something.
That could be it. That's gotta be it.
Terra feels himself sink to his knees.]
I knew it. I knew he wasn't lost.
[Sora's not the only one who sounds quite proud all of a sudden. Although, there's also a bit of relief mingling with the pride in Terra's voice.]
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He doesn't seem to notice the major side-eye he's getting. Doesn't even seem to hear Sora when the younger Keybearer asks him how he knows Riku. He looks down at the ground between them and the business end of his Keyblade settles in the dirt.
Riku passed the exam. He showed the Mark. Riku's a Master.
But how? He doesn't even wield the Keyblade now. The way Riku tells it, he can't. He 'proved himself unworthy' of the weapon and it went to Sora instead. (Which makes no sense. Since when does the Keyblade do that?)
Riku's got all that darkness in his heart, too...
... Unless. Unless Sora's from some other point in the future? Some point past Riku's time... or the time Riku remembers waking up from? Like those Refugees who fell back asleep and when they woke from their pods again, they remembered living past the time the Storm supposedly hit their world. Almost as if they'd lost weeks' or months' or years' worth of memories. Except some of them actually got older, too. The pods correcting a mistake they made or something.
That could be it. That's gotta be it.
Terra feels himself sink to his knees.]
I knew it. I knew he wasn't lost.
[Sora's not the only one who sounds quite proud all of a sudden. Although, there's also a bit of relief mingling with the pride in Terra's voice.]