[It would be nice if Riku expressed some kind of dismay or even just surprise that he couldn't win on his own. It wouldn't change anything that happened, but it would be small consolation when he hasn't had much of that.
But it's fine. Roxas didn't really expect anything anyway.]
How can you be sorry for something you haven't even done yet?
[The tone is slightly sharp, the question rhetorical, but part of Roxas wonders anyway. Can regret work backwards like that? How much of their encounter was planned, and how much of the aftermath done in desperation to buy time instead of being carefully calculated while Roxas was unaware?
Well, now's the time to ask, isn't it?]
Did you know what he was going to do to me before you came after me? To keep me trapped until Sora could wake up?
[He doesn't even want to put a name to the fake life he had in the digital Twilight Town. Even if he understands better why such drastic measures were taken, it would still be like dumping a gallon of salt into a wound.]
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But it's fine. Roxas didn't really expect anything anyway.]
How can you be sorry for something you haven't even done yet?
[The tone is slightly sharp, the question rhetorical, but part of Roxas wonders anyway. Can regret work backwards like that? How much of their encounter was planned, and how much of the aftermath done in desperation to buy time instead of being carefully calculated while Roxas was unaware?
Well, now's the time to ask, isn't it?]
Did you know what he was going to do to me before you came after me? To keep me trapped until Sora could wake up?
[He doesn't even want to put a name to the fake life he had in the digital Twilight Town. Even if he understands better why such drastic measures were taken, it would still be like dumping a gallon of salt into a wound.]