A/N: So it was last week I believe that the voice of Scrooge McDuck, Alan Young, passed away. RIP to a great talent and some of my favorite childhood memories. Now, for this chapter, it would probably be helpful if you re-read chapter 24, because that was such a long time ago now and I can't believe I've spent this long on this story. Anyway, as always, reviews are appreciated. Thanks for reading.


Chapter 82

Celes Chere

Astra deflected several attacks from Jack's sword before ducking under a swing and coming out behind him. She quickly switched places with Will who advanced forward his blade, quickly parrying each of Jack's attacks. Astra instead focused on Balthier, who was in current possession of Davy Jones' chest. As Astra made to chase after him, she stopped immediately as an arrow flew and landed in front of her.

"Hey, what the heck is your problem?" Astra yelled, turning to Fran. She was standing with her bow slightly lowered and a strange mix between sorrow and thoughtfulness etched on her face. Balthier stopped and turned to look at her, as did Will and Jack.

"We have a problem, something a lot more important than that box of yours," Fran said.

"Well I doubt that-"

"Shut up, Jack," Will said before addressing Fran. "What's the problem?"

"Luna's gone missing," Fran said. A sharp breath escaped Astra's mouth. Before she knew it, her legs were carrying her through the jungle in the direction of the beach. On the way she passed by the giant water wheel she, Jack, Balthier and Will had rode on comically down the island while fighting. At the time, she hadn't thought much of the random wheel that had been chasing them but now she began to worry that it had some connection to Luna.

All Astra could think of on her way was how stupid she had been. She had told herself that she would keep Luna safe this time and yet again, through her own brazen attitude, had she failed to do something that should have been a simple task.

She soon arrived at the beach where Donald, Goofy and Elizabeth were talking to each other.

"What happened?" Astra quickly asked.

"Some guy appeared in front of us who was after Luna's Keyblade. Now what was his name again? Guile- Girly-"

"Gilgamesh!" Donald corrected Goofy.

"That's right. So we chased them all the way over to that church over there but when we caught up to them, Luna and that Gilgamesh fella vanished in front us," Goofy explained.

"Don't scare her, Goofy. They have to be somewhere on the island. Let's keep looking," Donald suggested.

"But you saw her disappear. She was in front of you and then she wasn't. That doesn't sound normal to me," Astra yelled. She felt her nails dig hard into her palms. "I should have been there for her. I'm such an idiot. Such an… idiot."

"Um, not to ruin the moment, but it looks like we have guests," Elizabeth alerted, pointing towards the sea. Astra turned her head slowly, her eyes widening as they gazed upon the Dutchman's sailors rise up from the ocean as they made their way onto land.

"What are we going to do?" Elizabeth asked. Behind them, Astra heard the footsteps of the others catching up. She looked behind her to see Will, Fran and Balthier, their weapons already drawn. Where Jack had gone to was anyone's guess but she didn't really care at the moment. Right now, she only felt like taking her frustrations out on something. She summoned her Keyblade and pointed it at the sailors.

"We fight."


Sora was escorted to a small room with a glass divider separating one side of the room from the other. Two folding chairs were prepped on either side of the glass divider, one ready for the visitor and the other for the suspect. Sora scoffed at the label. Luna was certainly no suspect and though all the evidence pointed to her, were he to even take an impartial standing, it was clear that the evidence was just too perfect. KRONOS had sent footage to Moira's Crescent of Sora and the children back in the sewer just to paint this picture of him as hostile. He wouldn't be surprised if they were behind this as well.

"The suspect will be with you in a moment," said the detective who had brought him to the room. Lenoux was his name, a broad shouldered man with a cold piercing gaze that towered over Sora. The teen found it difficult to think that the man had ever not taken anything seriously.

"Her name's Luna and she's innocent," Sora growled at him. He merely smirked and shook his head.

"Believe what you want. I get paid for bringing criminals in, not listening to the biased opinions of her friend. That's what separates the boys from the men, kid. Unlike you, I don't let my personal feelings conflict with my work," Lenoux said. He had a habit of folding his arms and tapping his index finger on his left arm for whatever reason. Sora had tried to ignore it on his way to the room but he simply couldn't. He found It incredibly grating actually.

"Feelings, hmph. That's a good one," Sora mumbled. Lenoux grunted, no doubt having caught what Sora had said and left the room, closing the door behind him. Sora walked over to the chair and sat down. He grinned and slipped his hand into his track top and pulled out a bar of chocolate from the bottom pocket. "Should have searched me more thoroughly. Apparently you're not that good at your job as you think you are, detective."

The sound of the door on the other side of the door soon opened and Sora quickly hid the chocolate bar underneath the counter and looked up with his mouth slightly parted. As Luna's eyes fell on Sora's upon entering the room, she tried to break out into a run but the guard tugged at her shoulder and brought her back, reminding her of where she was. It angered Sora, the way they were treating her but he let it slide for now. It would be better not to cause a commotion while he was here.

"You have fifteen minutes," the guard said. He sat Luna down on the folding chair and unlocked her handcuffs, taking them with him as he left the room. As soon as the door finally closed, both the room's occupants jumped up from their seats.

"Luna!"

"Sora!"

"Err, you first," Sora offered with a grin.

"You came! I'm so glad you're here. When they told me I had a visitor, I thought it was Aunt Kit and I freaked out. How did you get here?"

"You remember Mirage, the woman who was working with Syndrome? She brought me here with this watch, a Warpinator or something like that. Yeah, stupid name, I know," Sora said. He held up the hand under the counter to show her the bar of chocolate. "Got something for ya. I did my best to smuggle it through, including hiding it in my shoe."

"It is a big shoe," Luna said with a chuckle.

"That it is. Uh, I'm not sure I can fit it through that hole. I'm gonna push it through piece by piece, alright?" Sora peeled off the wrapper and broke of a piece of chocolate before sliding it through the small round hole in the divider.

"Thanks," Luna said, accepting it and taking a bite. "You know, it's crazy how close you are right now and yet at the same time, I can't reach you. It hurts."

"Are they at least treating you right?" Sora asked.

"Hmm, well, I wake up early in the morning and they take me to this interrogation room, it's in another building across the street. I get asked a lot of questions and they try to do the usual stuff they do, the good cop bad cop routine, they try to get into your head and mess with you, that sort of stuff. I tell them that I can't remember anything but they're not buying it as an excuse. Apparently the evidence is pretty much against my favor," Luna said. She held up the piece of chocolate and nodded. "This is really good. Where did you get this?"

"Brought it back from Radiant Garden. It's Aerith's own homemade chocolate," Sora said. "She actually wanted to make some cookies to go along with it but I wanted to come as soon as possible. She believes in you, Luna, and not just her either. Namine, Rapunzel and Mulan too. They're all rooting for you to come back safely."

"Sora, that's lovely and all but-"

"But? What's there to 'but' about? It's going to be fine. We're going to clear all of this up and we'll go and have tea at Kit's place or something," Sora said.

Luna looked around nervously for a moment before leaning in and whispering, "But what if it was me?"

"It wasn't," Sora countered.

"But you can only say that because you believe in me, right? When it comes to facts, belief means nothing," Luna said.

"And you know for a fact that you did it?" Sora asked. "Look, this is exactly what they want you to think. KRONOS or whoever set you up."

"I know that very well could be it but… I still can't help but feel like I did something bad. I mean, my parents died at my hands so who's to say that I did kill those people as well. That and… I've been seeing things and having these thoughts that I shouldn't. It feels like something's changed within me and I can't tell if what I'm experiencing is me or something else," Luna said.

"I can understand where you're coming from," Sora said. He broke off a piece of chocolate and took a bite from it.

"You do?" Luna asked wide-eyed.

"Sure. I dream about Abraxas from time to time and I used to see Yeul from time to time. David called it an extreme case of PTSD," Sora said.

"David? You mean David Xanatos?"

"Yeah. I mean, I felt so angry that I even became afraid of myself. For everything I've said about why I wanted to stop using the Keyblade, I left out something important. I was afraid that I'd reach a point where I wouldn't be able to stop doing this. That I loved it too much to let it go. I was lying to myself and it was selfish of me. I'm sorry. I let you down," Sora said, bowing his head apologetically.

"No, Sora, don't do that. You were just doing what you thought was right, and maybe it was. But what I have, I don't think it's PTSD. There is something really wrong with me and if I did lose myself and I really did-"

"Don't… say anything more. You have no idea how much it hurts seeing my friend lose faith in herself," Sora said.

Luna threw him a smile that lacked energy. "I should be the one who's sorry. I'm ruining the mood, aren't I? Fifteen minutes and I can't quite say it all."

"So much to say, so little time," Sora agreed. He sat upright, his smile fading. "Well, consider this a selfish act but I've done so many now that I can't honestly say I care. I don't care what the evidence says. I think it's wrong. I think you're being set up and I'm going to prove your innocence."

"Sora… why? Why believe in me so much?" Luna asked.

"Because when you're all alone in the world, you need someone to be there for you. I look at you and I don't see a murder. I see someone with so much ahead of them. I won't let your life end here. If you don't have the strength at the moment to believe in you for yourself then believe in you for me and Kit and everyone else," Sora said.

Luna looked at him and wiped at her eyes before looking down. "Okay."

"Then that's all I need to hear," Sora broke off another piece and fed it through the small hole to Luna. "What's the last thing you remember? Maybe we can piece something together."

Luna nodded and began to describe to him how she had met Jack Sparrow and the others. She rushed through parts because of time but Sora was able to get the gist of things. After telling him of how she injected Gilgamesh with the syringe, she took a bite from the chocolate and looked to the side.

"That's it? You don't remember anything after that?" Sora asked. When Luna shook her head, Sora sighed and placed his hands on the counter. "Yeah, I'll admit. It's not much to go on but it is something. Unless you used a corridor of darkness or something, I don't know how you found your way to another world. There's a gap in your memory between when you were in Jack's world and when you woke up here, right? That's what I'll have to investigate then."

Luna opened her mouth to speak but the heavy knock came from the metallic door behind her. She stuffed the rest of the chocolate into her mouth and devoured it quickly.

"Time's up!" the guard soon yelled before opening the door.

"Please, just give us a few more minutes," Luna pleaded.

"No can do. Fifteen minutes is fifteen minutes. Stand," ordered the guard.

"I promise, Luna. I will get you out of here. The next time we meet, it will be on the same side," Sora said. She gave him another smile before disappearing from the room with the guard, the door closing behind them.

He was slightly tired from the performance two hours ago but he disregarded his fatigue and left the room. He had little time to waste. What he really wanted to do was visit the tower where Luna was found. The laboratory in the basement, Sora doubted, had been built by Abraxas alone so the scientists there must have built it for something.

There were also the others floors in the tower that he wanted to investigate. The only question was figuring out how to get in. As he had passed the tower on his way to the Station, he noticed yellow barricade tape surrounding the tower and preventing access. The only ones who were able to access the crime scene were naturally the people involved in the investigation.

"There's nothing you can do to help her, you know."

Sora stopped on his way down the hall and turned in the direction of Lenoux. He had his back against the wall and his arms folded with that same rhythm of tapping he had done before.

"What?" Sora asked.

"Belief isn't how justice works. It works on objectivity. The slaughter of eighteen hard-working people doesn't just go unpunished. When your friend is found guilty of her crimes, she'll face the full force of the justice system, namely, execution," Lenoux said.

"Were you listening in on our conversation?" Sora asked.

Lenoux dropped his arms and began walking past him. "You really do have big shoes."


Sora arrived at the Turm des Himmels shortly before evening and went on to immediately ask the people passing by (and making sure to avoid the police around the area) about whether they had seen anyone or anything suspicious around the tower at the time of the crime. As time passed, he began to feel only frustration. No one he had talked to had seen a whisker of suspicious activity on that day. Well he supposed there were some positives to take from that, he thought as he read through the newspaper he'd picked up. There were no witnesses who had seen Luna enter the tower so that was something.

Reading the newspaper proved useless, only mounting to his frustration. It looked like they were being tight-lipped about the whole thing, keeping much of the information out of the papers. Sora left the paper on the bench next to him and closed his eyes for a moment. He felt like he had exhausted all the possible options available to him, at least for today. He didn't want to think that Luna actually did those things but it was as the detective had said. All he had to go on was blind belief which was nothing compared to hard evidence. He was fighting a battle that wasn't in his favor as much as he didn't want to admit it.

He opened his eyes again and stood up to stretch. As he dropped his arms, he caught sight of something definitely suspicious. A figure concealed in a brown cloak was standing a few feet away from him, looking up at the tower.

"Hey!" Sora yelled at them. The figure looked his way for a moment before grabbing onto their hood and breaking off into a run. "Yeah, that's not suspicious at all."

Sora chased after them, slipping through a group of people on the way. The figure cut across the street and continued on down past the crowd of people on the other side. Sora chose a more insane route. He ran straight down the middle of the road, ducking and weaving carriages as he kept his eyes on the cloaked figure. He quickly grabbed onto a carriage and rode it past her before jumping off and running onto the pavement.

The figure stopped in their tracks as Sora appeared in front of them, allowing Sora to get enough of a look under their hood to tell it was a woman with blonde hair. He was about to tell her it was alright when she took off again in the other direction. Sora followed after her again, something that took them both into a deserted street full of parked carriages.

"Stop! I'm not after you!" Sora tried when he was sure she could hear him.

"Then why are you chasing me?" The woman yelled back.

"Okay, maybe I am after you but not for the reason you might think. I just want to know why you were looking at the tower," Sora said. She stopped and turned around to face him before relaxing.

"I'm not allowed to look at a tower now?" the woman asked.

"Of course you can, assuming you're not a regular Alexandrian who passes the tower on a daily basis. You were staring at it for quite a while though, almost like you'd never seen it before," Sora said.

"There was a crime, no? I was merely curious," she countered.

"Okay, even ignoring the fact that you were running away after I called to you, you were definitely not looking at guards or the yellow tape. Also, you're really the only person who stands out with that shady looking getup," Sora pointed out.

"Fair point," the woman conceded and lifted her hood as if rewarding him. Sora wasn't sure if he had seen her from somewhere before but she definitely seemed familiar. "My name is Celes."

Sora's mouth dropped. "Celes? Celes Chere? Oh, wow. Um, this is awkward. You're that opera singer, right?"

"Not the reaction I would have expected. Not to brag but it's pretty hard to believe that someone from around here would ask that question, even those who aren't big fans of opera," Celes said. "So then the question would be, who are you?"

"Sora."

"Oh, you're Luna's friend. We met a few months ago," Celes said.

"Yeah, a friend of hers and I were outside your dressing room. I'm surprised you remember us," Sora said.

"Luna left quite an impression on me. It's hard not to when you shrink and grow to normal size just by eating a mushroom. Talk about a magic mushroom," Celes said with a chuckle.

"So why IS Celes Chere dressed in a brown cloak and looking at a tower anyway?" Sora asked.

"Believe it or not, what Luna said to me back in that room gave me a lot of confidence. She said we were the same, both of us not knowing who we are. I don't know if she still feels that way but it got me thinking a lot about my own position. I still didn't have the strength to break away entirely from my blackmailers until recently when I overheard something. Well, it wasn't so much overhearing actually. Zorn and Thorn didn't seem to mind saying it directly in front of me. They must have thought that it wouldn't bother me because to their knowledge, I've never come in contact with or even know who Luna was."

"Zorn and Thorn?"

"They're the conduits through which I receive my orders. They come from a higher authority. Zorn and Thorn are too stupid to carry out the majority of operations by themselves and they certainly have never struck me as the leader type," Celes explained. "Anyway, I heard them talking about her, but I didn't know why until the incident happened. So I happen to be walking by the Turm des Himmels on my way home from the store and I hear this large commotion. When I ask one of the police nearby, they told me that they had apprehended a girl who they believed had killed eighteen scientists. That's when I saw her come out of the tower, being escorted by a couple of guards. She looked so confused and her eyes were wide in horror, as if she wasn't really all there. That's when I knew that the incident and what Zorn and Thorn had said were linked."

"So she WAS set up?" Sora said ecstatically. Celes put her finger to her mouth and shushed him.

"Maybe we shouldn't speak so out in the open like this, but yes, that's what I think. So I wanted to investigate the tower myself. Find something proving that there was someone more sinister lurking in the shadows, orchestrating the whole thing. I've never refused to do anything they've told me, but I would gladly do so now and never look back after what they've done, regardless of the consequences," Celes said with a maturity uncommon of her seemingly young age.

Sora scratched the back of his head before smiling. "Luna means a lot to me too, which is why I'll need all the help I can get. That said, I'm not sure I can involve a civilian in something this dangerous but… I have a feeling you won't take no for an answer. I'll do my best to keep you safe but if it starts to look dangerous, then I want you to run."

"Well I may not look like it but I know my way around with a sword. If you need steel, then I can provide a helping hand." Celes pulled up her cloak slightly to reveal a sharp silver blade. Sora was more concerned by what Celes had been planning on doing with a sword, carrying it in public, in the first place rather than whether she could help him or not. Had saving Luna really meant so much to Celes that she had been ready to give up her life for it? Sora shared a common goal with her but he wasn't about to exchange an innocent life for an innocent life.

"Let's just get some rest for today. We can figure out a plan of action for tomorrow and go from there. To be honest, I'd rather avoid any altercation with the guards and police if possible," Sora said. "Do you have anywhere we can stay?"

"I do but I don't think my apartment's suitable. They might be listening in there. I suppose I could ask a friend of mine if we could stay over…" Celes said but Sora shook his head.

"Actually, you know what? Luna's aunt has a shop near here if I remember correctly. Let's head over to her place," Sora said. It looked like Celes was more than a little paranoid of the privacy of her home but she was probably right and he didn't want to take any chances.

Celes pulled the hood back over her head and followed Sora out back into the busy street. It was a couple of blocks before Sora finally found Kit's Bakery, by which time the street lamps had all lit up under the jewelled cerulean sky.

"Hello, Miss Kit. It's nice to see you again," Sora said, walking in with Celes.

"Oh my goodness, Sora! Just a sec," Kit said. She finished packing the pastries into a bag before handing them over to her customer. He thanked her before walking past Sora and Celes and leaving through the door. "How are you? Where's Luna?"

"Uh, she's… fine. Yeah, she er- was sent somewhere else with a few other friends of mine," Sora lied. He imagined that Kit would absolutely freak out if he were to tell her the truth. He would probably be the first to suffer her wrath if he failed to save Luna. "I've just come here to… help her."

Celes pulled off the hood and smiled. She was about to introduce herself but Kit screamed and began fanning her face wildly.

"To think that Celes Chere would be standing only metres away from me. I'm a big fan of yours," Kit said, much to Celes' shying embarrassment.

"Um, thanks," Celes said, flashing a bashful smile.

"You know, you don't really seem like the kind of person who's into opera," Sora said to Kit.

"Well you'd be right. I saw my first opera with Luna's mother and I thought it was nothing short of sentimental trash. But even the person who least likes opera can feel smitten by the story of the opera singer who became famous at the young age of twelve," Kit said.

"Hmm? And what would this story be?" Sora asked, only because Celes was getting redder by the second.

"It's really not all as romantic as the story leads you to believe," Celes said but Kit threw up her hand.

"Oh, don't be so modest, dear. It really is unfortunate what happened to your father though. I'm so sorry," Kit said.

"No, it's okay. Really." Seeing the curious look on Sora's face, Celes explained. "My dad didn't take the necessary measures to save his company. They were failing and he could have downsized but he didn't want to let any of the people working there go. The company soon went bankrupt and he couldn't take it anymore so he… Anyway, the royal crown repossessed our house and me and my mother were thrown out of our home. We were homeless for months when the owner of the Opera House heard me singing to myself in an alleyway. They took me in and trained me to be an opera singer."

"Wow, that's certainly a tale. I guess you were lucky they found you when they did, huh?" Sora asked. He remembered Riku telling him once that he tended to attract the most interesting and peculiar of characters. After meeting both Jayne and Celes who had similar professions, he found it hard to counteract his point.

"Oh, you don't even know the half of it," Celes said. She glanced over to Kit, clearly reluctant to delve further into her past for the moment. "Sora suggested that we stay here for the night. Do you think that would be okay?"

"Of course it's fine but don't you have your own place?" Kit asked her.

"My neighbor's making a lot of noise tonight. I think they're having a party or something in there," Celes made up without the slightest inclination of sloppiness. She was probably better at lying than he was, or at the very least she had had the excuse planned for quite some time now.

"Oh, noisy neighbors. Gotta love them, right?" Kit laughed out. "Oh, there is a slight problem though. I only have two bedrooms. I hope you don't mind sharing a room with-"

"I'll share one with Sora," Celes said quickly. A confused Sora was about to object to this until he realized the reason they had come to Kit in the first place.

"Oh, yeah, I- I don't mind at all," Sora said, bobbing his head up and down assuredly. Kit looked slightly disappointed at first but fell back into her motherly disposition almost immediately.

Kit led them up the stairs to the second floor landing and stopped at the first door. "It's a small room but that's what happens when you live at the place you work in."

"It'll do," Celes said. She took it upon herself to open the door and walked into the room. She looked about for a moment before turning back to Kit with a smile. "Thank you."

"Ah, it's alright, dear. Would the both of you like some hot cocoa? I was about to make some for myself," Kit offered.

"That would be wonderful, thank you," Celes said, Sora nodding along with her. Kit left the room and Celes went over to sit on the bed.

"Right, you can take the bed, and I'll take the floor," Sora said.

"You know, I did choose to sleep with you just because we needed to discuss our plan," Celes said.

"S-sleep with me…? Oh! Oh, yeah." Sora realized quickly what she meant and looked away to cover up his embarrassment. "So what was the other reason?"

"I kind of didn't want to sleep with her. No offence to her or anything but I would rather get some actual sleep tonight instead of being bombarded with questions from a fan," Celes said.

"I'm sure she would have respected your wishes if you'd told her that," Sora said. "What did you mean, by the way? When you told her that the story wasn't all that romantic?"

"It's a tale of inspiration for many. You know, like the hardworking aspirant who eventually gets what they want through hard work and determination. In my case was, if you believe hard enough, you can make anything happen no matter where you are in life. Alexander is known as the city of dreams. I guess they needed a poster child for that."

"What do you mean by poster child?" Sora asked.

"The group who were blackmailing me, they own the opera. I guess when my benefactor found me in an alley, they saw something they could exploit. In exchange for making me into who I am today, I sold my life away to them. I've done some… pretty terrible things as per their orders. I don't think I just kept following their orders because of blackmail though. Somewhere in me, I probably felt a sense of gratitude to them for saving my mother and I. As long as I stayed in their good graces and got a warm bed at night and food on our table, I would do anything they told me to. I wouldn't even question it. In exchange, I became the poster child of Alexander. No blemishes, no stains… exactly how they want me to be," Celes explained.

"Well, no one can blame you for something like that. In your case, it's understandable. I can kind of relate actually, not with the blackmail thing but trying to separate who you are from what others expect of you," Sora said.

"Which is why after we rescue Luna, I've decided to come out with everything. I don't care what they do anymore. Alexander is going to see me for who I truly am and admittedly, I'm kind of scared," Celes said as she playfully kicked her legs up in the air. "And kind of excited at the same time. There's something about having everyone know I'm not Alexander's pretty little princess that just makes me excited. Is that weird?"

Sora was about to respond but jerked his head in the direction of the door as Kit came into the room with two mugs.

"Here you go, dears—two cups of relaxing hot chocolate. That'll be 600 munny please," Kit said, handing one to each.

Sora frowned in confusion. "Uh, sorry. I'm kind of out. I thought this was for-"

The red-headed shop owner guffawed at this and slapped him on the back, almost causing him to spill in his mug. "Oh, it was just a joke, Sora. It's obviously on the house."

Sora gave a mirthless laugh in reply. "Yeah… a joke."

"By the way, Sora, Luna's doing alright, isn't she? Oh, I do worry for her a lot. There's not a single day that goes by where I don't wonder where she is or if she's happy. I suppose I have to what with her mother gone," Kit said.

"Her mother? What happened to her mother?" Celes asked.

"Her parents were found dead at their bedroom, stabbed with a blade about 8.5 centimetres. I remember reading into the police report when I was told about their deaths. It seems that to this day, they still haven't managed to find the person responsible. Coincidentally it was around the time those creatures started appearing." Kit looked down and sighed. "It's not fair. Two innocent people's lives taken like that and their young daughter who will never get to see them again. A person like that doesn't deserve to be free."

Sora gulped and found something more comfortable to look at in the vase on the window sill. He'd rather avoid saying anything if possible. Both Celes and Kit would get the wrong idea, of course, but he didn't think the truth was his to tell.

"Anyway, if you need anything else, I'll be in my room. Goodnight, dears," Kit said.

As soon as she closed the door behind her, Sora heard Celes ask, "What really happened to them?"

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Sora pretended to not know what she was referring to.

"It's obvious you know something. You aren't very good at hiding it either," Celes told him.

"Oh come on, that's- that's- was it really that obvious?" Sora asked. When Celes gave a single nod, Sora walked over to the bed and helped himself to one of the pillows before throwing it on the floor. "When we get Luna out, you can ask her."

"The waiting game then… oh, how I despise that," Celes said.

Sora smirked and laid his head down. "Welcome to my world."