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[The video shows only Namine at first, then she backs away--it looks like she set her communicator on something and is moving away to show the background. Which...actually isn’t the hotel, but the inside of another building. Not much furniture, but that doesn’t seem to be bothering Namine as she calls offscreen to someone else.]

Ienzo, I got it set up.

[Ienzo walks into view, standing next to Namine, and inclines his head to the camera.]

Hello, everyone; I’d said last week that I hoped to find space for a storefront, and as it happens, Namine wished for the same, so we’ve found a space that will work for both of us. Several of you said you would be willing to help clean the space out when I located that, and we hoped we could request your assistance sometime later this week.

The sooner we get everything ready, the sooner we can open. Ienzo wants to have a tea house, and--

[She’s cut off by Batty’s appearance. Only, he’s looking a little blue; quite literally so. With the exception of the markings on his wings, which are white, he has now been painted varying shades of blue; darker for his wings, lighter for his head, face, and feet.. He doesn’t seem to mind this.]

I thought that if anyone wanted their Spirit painted a different color, I could help.

If anyone interested in helping us clean up could reply to this post, that would be best; our location will be off the plaza in the middle of the Fourth District. I highly recommend using the stairs that are to your left as you enter from the back streets, as the right side is infested with nightmares.

There were some on the way through the back streets, too, so be careful on your way.

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Naminé, what are you doing with him?!

[Riku glares accusingly at "Ienzo". The possibility that he might have returned, heart and all, had occurred to Riku. He just didn't expect to find him here of all places.]

Zexion, or whatever your name is -- you'd better explain what's going on, and fast.

[Ienzo managed to avail himself of an explanation of privacy settings from a moogle, and he's very glad of that at this point.]

I've set this on a private channel, because I'd rather not discuss this in public. I need to offer you an apology; I cannot express how terrible I feel that I tried to kill you, and I have no excuse. My name is Ienzo; after I died, shortly after our battle in Castle Oblivion, I awoke as my whole self again in Radiant Garden.

I am in possession of my whole self again, and I hope I can make amends for what I did during my time with the Organization. I can't undo the harm I did, but I hope I can try to do good for those around me and in some way prove that I am no longer who I was.

[Riku is silent for a moment, silently sizing Ienzo up. It would be so much easier if this were in person -- it's hard to read a person's intentions just speaking through a little communicator screen.]

Sora wants to believe you're telling the truth, and I believe in Sora.

[He doesn't have to spell out what would happen if Ienzo turns out to be lying. Riku defeated Zexion once before, he can do it again with ease.]

[Ienzo nods.]

That's fair of you. I wouldn't expect more.

Then consider it a truce. [For now. He doesn't like it, but he'll just have to trust that Naminé is in safe hands, just the same as when he left her with DiZ or Axel.]

Do you know anything about what's going on here?

As far as I'm aware, I went to sleep and woke up here. Everyone else seems to have had the same experience. The moogles gave us information on how the world works, but they don't seem to know how we got here, beyond falling asleep, or how we can leave.

I lost my home ten years ago; I would not have chosen to leave again like this, and I worry that Aeleus will be concerned about me.

[Worry? Concern? It's bizarre to hear emotions being expressed from someone Riku had known as a Nobody.]

You mean Lexaeus? [Another one who had tried to kill him. Yay.] At the very least, the people still awake might be able to help us find a way out of this once they realise what's going on.

Aeleus is Lexaeus' complete being, yes. He is my best friend, and the only living individual to care about me as a person. [Attempted murder or not, you don't sound snippy about Aeleus to Ienzo.] I don't doubt that he'll try to wake me.

[This is all really touching and all, but Riku's not sorry he killed Lexaeus. Not after Lexaeus had tried to destroy him for not embracing the darkness.]

While he's at it, we'd better try to figure out if Xehanort had a hand in this or not.

I suppose Xehanort is back somewhere too, now.

[Ienzo makes a face.]

I won't be much help to you on figuring out what his intents were; he lied to us as Xehanort and as Xemnas, and I still have no idea what he was getting at. I haven't sensed him, though I'll keep it in mind.

I don't think you'll be able to sense him. He could probably mask his scent if he wanted to, especially in a world like this where the rules are different.

I will stay alert, then, and if I encounter any evidence of him, I'll share it immediately. You've encountered him since...whatever happened? Namine's last recollection is of you and Axel leaving for your respective tasks, so there's still a period of time I'm unsure of. My last memories are of Lea's leaving to find Isa or Braig. Or possibly Sora, I suspect. It puts me in an unhelpful position.

After that, Sora destroyed the rest of Organization XIII, and I helped him defeat Xemnas.

[Paving the way, as Ienzo already seems to be aware, for Xehanort's return.]

We've ran into Xehanort since then -- every piece of him. But only in these sleeping worlds. If this is anything like before, this could be a trap for all of us, including you guys.

[Ienzo frowns darkly at that.]

Every piece...?

[Ienzo shakes his head, still scowling.]

He is going to find that more difficult than he thinks, if that is the situation we're in. I refuse to stand by and watch him wreak havoc again.

If it comes to that, me and Sora will stop him. We've done it plenty of times before, we can do it again.

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Wait, you know this guy? [More so than Wash does, at least, and that reaction is...not promising.] Who is he?

Yeah, I do.

[There's a delay before Riku's reply. Now he's had the chance to talk things out with Sora and Ienzo, and they've reached some kind of truce. So he's not about to pour out Ienzo's past to the first stranger who asks.]

He's a scientist -- or at least, he was. As for the rest, why don't you ask him yourself?

I already did. What I want to know is why you reacted so badly to seeing him, and I get the feeling that's not something he's going to tell me.

[He's seen that kind of reaction before - it was the same one he had to Epsilon showing up here. You don't act like that without good reason.]

Sorry, I'd really prefer not to get into the details. [Because it was highly personal as much as he's reluctant to spread around Ienzo's past.] We're old enemies, that's all you need to know.

[He can understand that too. How many secrets is he keeping nowadays?] Okay. Thanks.

[Ohhhh, Namine hasn't been looking forward to this explanation. Looks like it's time to use those newly-learned privacy settings.]

Riku, he wouldn't hurt me.

Are you sure about this? What makes you trust him?

[She can't have forgotten how the Organization used her in Castle Oblivion, and Zexion -- Ienzo -- is nothing like Axel.]

[Riku has yet to find out that while Zexion was nothing like Axel, he was nothing like Marluxia or Larxene.]

He was one of the few people there who I felt safe being left alone with.

[No need to elaborate on 'there.' He can probably guess.]

[Yes, Riku can guess.]

The fact that he never hurt you doesn't make him trustworthy. [And there are plenty of other ways to hurt a person besides violence, as Zexion proved himself. Words and illusions could be just as effective as knives, and near everyone in Castle Oblivion had perfected manipulation to an art.]

Just be careful, Naminé. If anything happens, come to me right away.

Sometimes you have to trust someone for them to prove themselves.

[Like the chance Sora once offered Namine herself. The expression on her face should be enough to remind him that she knows full well that you don't have to lay a hand on someone to hurt them, and hurt them badly.]

I will, you know it.

[Or she'll find a way to let him and Sora know she needs help and wait for them.]

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