"So, uh... how are you gonna get down?"

Sora had been released form the chair and was now standing side by side with Rapunzel on the window ledge of the tower. He had agreed to her request of getting her to the lights, despite not actually knowing where he was going. He often relied on Donald for the navigational issues, but he was sure he could get directions from someone on his travels. Besides, he was wondering how Rapunzel was going to get out of the tower. There was no obvious staircase to go down, and it was quite a steep drop to the ground.

Fortunately, she was way ahead of him. She had already tied her hair to a hook like a bungee and tossed it out the window. She paid Sora almost no attention as she jumped out the window and slid on her hair all the way down, whooping and cheering the whole way down. "Wooohooooo!"

Sora was gobsmacked by the ludicrous idea before joining in her cheering. He quickly jumped off the side of tower, not fearing for his life due to the ungodly power of flwomotion. "Woooooo!"

He landed with a graceful thud with no lasting impact on him and slowly came down from his adreneline high when he saw that Rapunzel wan't on the ground with him. "Rapunzel?"

He turned around only to see Rapunzel hanging form her hair, keeping her feet from touching the floor. "You okay there?" Sora asked out of concern.

"Ye-Yeah, I'm fine just... a new experience is all, heheh..."

Rapunzel didn't sound fine, but Sora trusted his new companion to sort her... situation out.

Rapunzel was, internally of course, freaking out. In a series of events that she could never have seen coming, she was leaving her tower for the first time ever. This was the grass she'd looked at so much from her outlook, and she was going to touch it for the first time. Slowly, she lowered her foot down to the grass...

Soft. Pleasant. The green terrain formed around her foot and brought her into comfort. This was a completely foreign sensation, and she loved it. She brought her other foot down to join her first and promptly tugged her hair down.

"Wow... this is grass!" she practically squealed with excitement.

Sora was thrown off by this strange comment but ultimately settled with the excitement on Rapunzel's face. Something about it reminded him of...

She ran to the nearby pond and started screaming with joy and excitement. She messed around for a few minutes before running off to the cave where Sora came in from. "Hey!" he called out, "Wait up!"

He ran after her. She was surprisingly fast but left a trail with her hair for Sora to follow, so it wasn't hard to find her again. He eventually caught up to her after passing through a web of vines, only to find her frolicking and spinning around in the meadow.

"Ahahaha!" you could see the joy practically dripping off of her face, "This is amazing!"

All of a sudden panic set on her face. "I can't belive I did this." Then it was replaced by shear joy, "I can't believe I did this!" Back to panic, "Mother will be so furious."

"Oh are you...?" Sora didn't have time to check if the girl was okay. She was on the move, sat down beside a tree.

"That's okay, what she doesn't know can't hurt her, right?"

Before Sora had a chance to check up on her, the day turned into 15 minutes of Rapnuzel having huge mood swings.

"Om my gosh this would kill her..."
"THIS IS SO MUCH FUN!"

"I, am a horrible person. I'm going back."

"I'M NEVER GOING BACK!"

"I'm a despicable human being."

"WAHOOO! BEST DAY EVER!"

Sora saw Rapunzel rolling down a hill, to brooding under a tree, to swinging on a tree and finally to sobbing on a tree branch before she stopped moving long enough for him to actually check up on her. "Sooo..." he began, awkwardly, "You seem.. pretty torn up right now. You good?"

Rapunzel wiped away her tears. "Sorry, it's just..." She tried to find the words that wouldn't make Sora throw his eyebrows up in confusion. "Mother always said that the outside world was a dangerous place, that I shouldn't go out. And now I'm here a-and I'm breaking her trust but... it's so much fun, y'know?"

A lizard appeared from behind her ear and began to pat her shoulder, as if attempting to console her worries. Kind of like Jiminy I guess, Sora thought haphazardly. "Well, I don't know about a tower, but this is your first time outside then?"

Rapunzel silently nodded, almost as though she was embarrassed to have led such a sheltered life. Sora just looked at his feet and spoke, "Well... I kind of know what your going through."

Rapunzel turned, wide eyed, "What?"

"I grew up on an island in," Donald's order, Donald's order, "- the middle of nowhere. I didn't even know that there was anything like this out there. Then, one day, I had to leave. No choice, no deciscion, just poof! Gone."

"How...? Why?" Rapunzel was very confused at Sora's island life and how he had to leave.

But of course, the order. "Em... not really sure. Just woke in this, really weird town one day." Sora wasn't sure if she believed his story, but he technically wasn't lying so it didn't matter either way. "There were a lot of good things that came with it though; I made new friends, went to crazy places and saw some amazing things." His mind drifted to meeting Donald, Goofy and the Hollow Bastion gang, seeing the inside of a whale and even becoming a lion to meet up with Simba.

"But, there were a tonne of bad things as well, things I couldn't have seen coming." He thought about losing the islands, his two best friends. How when he thought he had reunited with Riku, he had to fight him as an enemy. Letting go of Kairi again after he'd saved her, the threat of Xehanort looming over their every move from now on.

"But, I don't think you should let the bad experiences stop you from seeing the good out there too. Otherwise, nothing new would ever happen!"

Rapunzel looked at Sora, now grinning ear to ear, adn wondered why he was being so nice to her. Why was he being so nice? He was nothing like her mother said people would be. She felt taken in by that smile and mirrored it with her own quickly. "Thank you, Sora."

"Don't mention it! Now, the lights, you still wann go?"

Rapunzel nodded resolutely. "Yep, after all, nothing new if I don't go out there, right?"

"Good!" then Sora's face falter slightly, "Now figure out how to get there..."

Flynn and his anthropomorphic companions approached the little Duckling tavern after having searched for hours. "Ooh, this place! If your friend has passed through here, the guys here will have seen them."

Donald and Goofy eyed the building suspiciously, until Donald finally spoke up. "I don't like the look of this place..."

"Yeah," Goofy chimed in, "seems kinda... scary."

"Guys," Flynn was kind of thrown off by the fact a wizard duck and a soldier dog that fought... Heartless(?) were intimidated by a tavern,"It's just a tavern. Besides, Duckling! Like you, eh! Whats' the worst that could happen?"

Donald and Goofy put their trust in the words of Flynn. How much of a bad decision that was, they would have to wait and see.

"Wait, you don't actually know the way?"

"No... but hey there's a path, and I'm sure someone will give us directions if we ask!"

Rapunzel liked this Sora, he was understanding, helpful and strong, seeing as he jumped out of her tower with no issues. But if he didn't know the way, then she was hesitant as to how much help he could be on their journey.

It didn't take long for them to find... a giant dandelion? Rapunzel, in her newfound awe for the world, rushed towards it excitedly, shouting "Look, a dandelion!"

Sora took a moment of thinking, Dandelions aren't that big... wait! "Rapunzel Wait!"

She had already touched the flower like creature, it blowing its spores off in every direction. She rushed back behind Sora, too flustered to notice the giant steel Key that had sprouted in his hand. As the leaves of the plant took on an arm like form, more spores shot up all around them, all of them staring with their beady yellow eyes.

Sora was taken aback by how many there were. "Heartless!"