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Warning: Spoilers for KH1.
Notes: Don't ask what's up with the tense changing. I hardly know myself.
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He didn't think, he only acted. Whatever part of him that could think had fallen away, leaving only the exposed heart, draped in darkness. He is suddenly there- he doesn't know why, he doesn't care why. His sight is changed now, basic. He sees those glowing pink things that make up what he is. He wants it.
So do the rest of them. Them-him-they are everywhere, big and small, hungry and desperate. He twitches, the next one twitches, the third ruffles its wings. They slip in and out of the ground- but he watches. He wants hearts, but that one's different.
He sees the outline of a girl (everything is shadows and outlines, except the hearts), a duck, and a dog. He knows them. Something in him stirs- twitches. He knows her heart. He has been her heart. He wants it, we wants to protect it. He wants to be with it again.
So that when they turn and run, he follows. The journey is hard, especially when you're small and there's hundreds more of yous all around, but he must get there. He never loses sight of that heart, the one he knows. He knows knows knowsknowsknows-
They stop. His instincts scream to attack, to take, and then turn and take again- but he knows this. He won't, he can't. He stares. He knowsknowsknows-
"Sora?"
He can't comprehend the words, but he knows it. It is familiar to him, it is him. He knows it like he knows the heart.
She comes closer. He is calm, collected- this thing is amazing, weird, unnatural. He shouldn't know this heart. He does, and he's astounded. And it knows him.
Then she's hugging him, like a heartless might hug a heart and rip. But there's no ripping, no darkness. There's only light.
And suddenly, things are clear. The world isn't shadows now- it's Hollow Bastion, teeming with heartless. She's not just a glowing heart.
But he still knows that heart.