When I woke up from my previous forced sleep, Florina and Windelle were staring at me. Windelle said, "Hey, Rael. Are you okay?"

"Uh .. Yeah. I think."

"Good thing the perpetrator did not intend to kill you or if (s)he did, perhaps the operation gone bad." , Florina said.

"I guess so."

"Anyways, what do you intend to do?"

"Uh. I guess I'll do some more training with Windelle with the slingshot."

"That's a good idea." , Windelle said. "Anyway, how did you get here? And do you remember anything about where you were from?"

"I do remember where I am from but I do not know how I got here."

"Right."

"No really. But I do remember being in some weird place and some black thing swallowing me up."

"Weird.", Florina said. "I remember Sora saying something like that to Kairi yesterday when I gossiped with her."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Anyway, you should get started with your training."

"Yeah. I guess I should."

During the following hours, Windelle trained me further on fighting with the slingshot and soon, I was able to strike a fairly distant target with relative ease. Florina watched the two of us the whole time. At 12 NN, Windelle halted training and shot down some paopus for us to eat. Windelle said, "Well, I should get going. I want to do a duel with Riku alone and see how I'd do."

"What!" , I said. "We weren't even able to beat him together. What makes you think you alone can kick his butt when our butts were kicked despite our outnumbering him?"

" I wasn't fully focused with you as an obstacle."

"Then what about after I was KO'd?"

"I had problems dodging Florina's shots despite her being very accurate. Riku s evasiveness made those shots meant for him threaten to hit me."

"Oh. I see."

"Anyways. I better be going. Bye."

Once Windelle left, Florina asked, "So, you wanna continue training?"

I replied. "If it's okay, sure."

"All right then. Let s get this started."

It was a long session and it made me hungry though I had paopu breaks in between. At 5PM Florina declared done and I was better than before. "Well, you okay?"

"I guess so. I could really use some rest."

"Okay. See you later."

Florina then left and I decided to take a nap underneath one of the trees. I don t know how long I slept but when I awoke, It was dark and stormy but without rain.