[Filtered to Ienzo, Even, Aeleus, Namine, Riku, Xion] Back dated to shortly after Aeleus's post

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[Sora is seen looking very serious for a moment and he's doing something with the communicator that's causing it to shake. After a moment of that, the image settles and he looks satisfied. Apparently he was pressing some buttons. Maybe setting a filter?

There's another quiet moment before he speaks up.]

Some of the stuff we've been talking about lately reminded me of something.

Namine, Even, Ienzo, Aeleus. Xemnas lied to you and to the rest of the Organization big time about your hearts. You did lose your hearts but what Xemnas wasn't telling you, and Xigbar seems to have known this too, was that there was a replacement forming. But if you knew, it probably would have developed faster and that wouldn't have been good for other plans they had going.

The point of Organization XIII was to provide Xehanort with thirteen different vessels for his darkness. Out of the guys you know, he got Xemnas, Xigbar and Saix. Apparently everyone else wasn't ideal for him. But he's found others already. He has twelve now and... he almost scored his thirteenth pretty recently.

[He doesn't intend to give any clues, but his poker face sucks. It may or may not be obvious from the pause or from his tone of voice just who it is that almost became that thirteenth vessel.]

There's more to it than that, but I don't have all the details. I just thought you guys should know this much at least.

[The message cuts out here.]

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[Somehow, none of this response is unexpected. Sora waits patiently until Even manages to spit out a question.]

He told me himself when he thought I wouldn't be leaving to tell anyone.

[defrostedpride]

[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!