[Even processes this. Aeleus would tell him to think it through first, and also to breathe. He attempts to do so. Sora isn't lying; Sora is fairly unlikely, all things considered, to leap to such an elaborate conclusion on his own. Thus, he was probably told...what he says he was told. Even can't think of a reason for Xemnas - for Xehanort - to want Sora to believe this. To induce guilt, perhaps? No, that wouldn't be helpful. At the beginning, perhaps, but once all but Xemnas were dead - no. That isn't him, isn't the kind of tactic he uses.]

[Even is beginning, however, to suspect that he knows still less about who Xemnas is than he thought.]

[It makes sense, is the worst of it. If Xemnas was right, was honest, then Even shouldn't be here. Objectively, either he was mistaken...or he was lying. And of the two of them, Sora is by far the more honest.]

[Even drops his elbows onto the table and buries his face in his hands. Sora can't see his face, which is probably best for everyone.]

Fuck!