Setting: Castle Oblivion, post-KHCoM

Genre: General

Characters: Namine

Rating: K


Riku was off on his own now. Well, at least for the most part. Maybe Mickey had decided to stick with him, after all. Naminé was too occupied to check on that, but she knew he was somewhere out there, alive and getting stronger.

Meanwhile, Sora was here with her. He was sleeping in his pod, almost silent if not for the steady breaths she could barely hear from him. But that wasn't what she was focusing on as she drew this picture, a picture for her leisure and not her job.

A picture of a certain silver haired replica who wasn't asleep or traveling. Who had tried so hard to protect Naminé because he was convinced that he was her knight in shining armor. Who didn't seem to have any chance at a happy ending, now that he'd done what Naminé feared would happen to her someday.

He disappeared, faded into the darkness after his last battle. Namine shook her head and turned the page, unable to push herself to finish the drawing. She didn't mean to disregard Riku's Replica in all of this, but everything got so out of her control… "I'm sorry," she whispered, aware no one could hear her. Maybe the darkness was the shadows, though, and her knight was straining even now to hear the voice of his beloved.