Sitting atop the clock tower in Twilight Town has caused a lot of mixed observations in Axel. There are the bad times, the times when the ticking of the clock above them is some horrible herald of a steadily encroaching, inevitable event. There are also the good times, when they can share a laugh and some ice cream. This time is like neither of those.
"I wonder," Roxas starts, looking down at the people running around the square, "if they really know what's going on."
"What do you mean?"
"Well look at them. They're running around worried about getting things done, trying to make money before they die, worried about living. I mean, think about how they break up time. 'Saving time', 'spending time', 'don't have enough time', 'too little time'. They treat it like it's money."
"You think there's something wrong with that?"
"I think they don't know how to stop. I think they need to break it up."
"It's voluntary?"
"It has to be. They always talking about needing more time, but I think too much would scare them. I think infinity scares them."
"Afraid of infinity, huh?" Axel muses, looking down at the people below. "So what, you're not afraid of infinity?"
"No," Roxas answers, "I'm not. I'm not going to experience infinity."
"You planning to die?"
Roxas doesn't answer.
"You know," Axel sighs, "their concept of time isn't the only thing that keeps people from infinity."
Roxas doesn't even twitch, still staring stoically down at the people below.
"I think people are able to separate themselves from infinity because they feel. Feelings are fleeting, contrasting the nature of infinity."
"You think that because people have hearts they're separated from infinity? No, as humans we think we understand the concept of infinity, but we don't. Not really. We are mortal, we conceive of things in terms of death, mortality, beginnings and ends."
"You thinking of starting something?"
"No, I'm going to end it."
Axel watches as Roxas jumps off the tower, disappearing into the crowd below. He thinks he'd be afraid of this ending if he could feel.
"I am not human, Roxas," Axel tells the air. "I am nobody. I know infinity. And I've seen it in your eyes.