[filtered to Eraqus and Ven]

[wavesinherheart]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's... something you need to hear. It's about Terra.

[There's a moment of pause there, as she tries to figure out how best to say what she needs to.]

You both know how we fought Xehanort in the end, I think. What I didn't tell you was that after everything was over I... I couldn't find Terra anywhere. Not where we'd been fighting anyway. I didn't find him again until later and I know this is going sound strange, but Xehanort had... possessed him, I guess.

I thought I'd managed to give him another chance to be Terra, but... I'm not so sure anymore.

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[wavesinherheart]

Yes. I have.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

[He's again silent for a long time...practically grieving. So...none of his students escaped all this safely? Even Aqua, who he'd just made a Master and had complete faith in her...]

[Something else occurs to him after that silence, though.]

But...you are still here, and whole.

[If there's one thing he's heard about the realm of darkness, it's that it will quickly corrode body and heart if a person is left there for too long...]

[wavesinherheart]

[There's one of two logical conclusions in that. Either she had her armor and was thus spared the effects of the darkness or the stories aren't quite true in so far as the effect of darkness goes.

(The truth is, of course, nothing like either of those, but the truth is painful enough already. There's no need to make things even harder.)]

Yes. I am.

[hiptobe_eraqus]

[There's another long pause.]

...Then there's still some hope.

[It's just as much for himself as it is for her. And maybe, if they're here now, he could find a way for her to escape both this realm and the realm of darkness...]

[wavesinherheart]

It's hard to see, sometimes. But there is.