I smirk up at the man in the doorway. "What's the matter, scarface? I thought you wanted me back to normal."

"I want you to behave like a civilized person."

"But Saix, we're not people." My voice deadens a little as I speak the words. Don't care. "We're Nobodies."

"The principal is the same." He growls. "You're acting like a child."

I shrug. Child, infant, idiot. The words that Saix likes to call me the most. I don't care.

"Now get up." He grabs me by the arm and hauls me to my feet. "I won't have you laying around while there's work to do."

No answer. He's got rough hands. Sweet.

Saix hauls me to the door, throwing me through the portal without even giving me a chance to prepare. As I tumble through the suffocating darkness, I feel a hand on my wrist. My feet hit the ground an I emerge into a forest. I sigh, leaning against a tree. Boring. "I was hoping for someplace more exciting."

"Don't complain, just gather information."

So I do. This is something I can lose myself in - working, moving, forcing myself to go further and further in order to forget about -

The thought of the name brings me to a hault and tears open a fault line in my chest. No big deal. Don't really care.

I keep searching, gathering little about the forest I find myself in. It's just a forest, filled with animals. How disappointing.

Me and Saix return to the castle after only a little while. Even he decided that there wasn't much to see here. Just a stupid forest.

As soon as we step foot onto the gray tile, Vexen is there. Asking how things went. Asking questions about the new world. I tell him to stuff it up his ass. And I resume my place.

In the corner. Roxas's room. The seashells I burned. You see, nothing ever really changes.

The day finishes. Night falls. When it does, I burn another tally mark in the wall.