"Axel?"
"Yeah?"
"What was it like?"
"What was what like?"
"What was it like to feel things? I can't remember."
"….."
"You know who you were before the Organization, right? So you have to remember some of that stuff."
"Oh, well…yeah. It was-well, it was something all right."
"Ok… Well, how did it work?"
"Work? It didn't 'work'; it just happened."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, it wasn't like you tried to feel things…you just did. Something would happen, and your heart reacted to it."
"Like Vexen's experiments?"
"Eh…not quite like that. Hmm…"
"I mean, what's the difference between us and people with hearts?"
"…..I got it! Ya see this ice cream?"
"Yeah."
"You know it's ice cream, right?"
"Well, yeah! Of course."
"How come we eat it?"
"How come-Axel, you're not making sense."
"Do us a favor and just answer the question."
"We eat it because it tastes good!"
"Right. But, what if it was made of the same stuff, and it just tasted like water? Would it still be the same?"
"No. Not to me, anyway."
"It's kinda the same with us Nobodies. When we were somebodies, our hearts made us who we were. Feelings were our 'taste.' But now that our hearts are gone…yeah, we're still basically the same. But with no feelings comes no 'taste.' We're just like a watery old ice cream. That's the difference."
"Oh…"
"Somewhere down in you, you remember what feelings were like."
"Huh? Why do you think that?"
"You're such a waste of talent."
"What?"
"You can't do anything right!"
"Axel!"
"And I don't even know why I'm talking to you…you're just an empty shell!"
"…..."
"…"
"….."
"Told ya."
"….told me what."
"Why so gloomy? If you don't have a heart to feel with, then why the long face?"
"I…guess cuz…I do remember. Somewhere-I knew what it meant when you said that. I knew."
"I repeat. Told ya."
"I guess I do remember something after all. You were right!"
"I'm right most of the time. Get it memorized."
"So, you didn't mean what you said?"
"Not a chance!"
"Oh….I'm glad."
"No you're not, ya zombie."
"Shut up, Axel!"
"Ha ha! As if!"
"So, you're Xigbar now?"
"Does Xigbar pay for your ice cream?"
"…good point."
"That's what I thought. Now, enough of this gloomy stuff. Eat up! It's gonna melt!"
