"What..?" T'fos examined herself, looking over her body.

Cure~

I let the ball of Darkness pulse, releasing a tiny wave of green energy. I hadn't used nearly as much Darkness as Madoka had used Light, so that didn't surprise me.

I can use cure~

"I healed you." Madoka smiled, explaining.

Cure, cure, cure, cure~

T'fos blinked, looking down. "Oh... Thank you?"

Now, how do I turn that into curaja?

"You're welcome."

I held my hands up, letting a ball of Darkness form. It tinged green a moment later.

"Xine... where are we?"

More Darkness usually works, but...

"We... are quite far away from our home World, princess."

Maybe if... The ball of darkness shifted further, becoming a bright shade of green. There we go.

T'fos looked around, examining her surroundings. Her eyes lingered on her stasis pod for a moment, and she frowned.

I fed a bit more Darkness into the orb, noting the way that the Darkness shifted as it did. Still, the colour remained the same, as did the underlying... structure.

"Xine, how long has it been?"

I let the magic release, causing the ball of darkness to collapse into an expanding green wave- one that I stopped at my hands rather than let continue throughout the room.

"Almost... three months."

I was going to have so much fun with this.

"Three months..." T'fos shook her head. "Well, at least I am alive."

"Drich?"

"Hmm?" I looked up at Kyubey. "Ah... yeah, sorry. Just got caught up in my own little world for a moment there."

Cuuuure~

I shook my head.

"Who... are you?" T'fos was looking at me, no small degree of caution and concern in her Heart.

"My name is Drich." I helpfully informed her.

Xine... did not look pleased that I was speaking with her.

The thought brought out no small degree of amusement from me.

Now, can I resist taunting him about it?

"Pleased to meet you, princess."

Xine's eyes narrowed.

Guess not.

I turned to him. "Well then, that's you done isn't it?"

His stare chilled significantly. But he still answered after a few moments. "Yes. Now that the princess is healed, I have no reason to continue my efforts."

"Efforts?" T'fos turned to Xine... wincing? "Xine, what did you do?"

He suddenly looked remarkably uncomfortable.

It was absolutely hilarious watching Xine cower at T'fos.

"No! I do not, will not, and would not put my life ahead of anybody else's! That is the very creed of my entire family!"

"Princess-"

"No." She cut him off. "You have done a disservice, Xine." She straightened up, rising to her full height- she wasn't as tall as Xine, but it certainly seemed that way. "And you will make amends for it."

There was a note of finality in her voice, just daring Xine to disagree.

He looked away for a moment, before slumping. "Everything I did... I did for your sake."

"We do not sacrifice others for ourselves. This is one of the principles that our kingdom was built upon." She was unsympathetic. "You know this."

He nodded. "I do."

For a few moments, he said nothing more.

But then;

"The... girl whose Soul Gem I took." He looked up at Madoka. "May I be permitted to apologize for my actions?"

Madoka smiled.

"I have never been out here before." T'fos noted, staring around at the colourful, varied space.

"The Sea of the Skies is a rather beautiful place." I noted. "It's kind of a shame, really."

She looked forwards, staring at the back of my hood from her place on the Keyblade Glider. "What is?"

"That so few will get to admire it. Although, at the same time, that's really a good thing."

"I... do not understand."

"Ah... don't worry yourself over it." It would -hopefully- never become relevant in her lifetime. "And Xine? Just because you're behind me does not mean that I don't know that you're glaring at me."

He only glared harder.

"I do not trust you."

"Oh, I can assure you, the feeling is quite mutual." I didn't look back at him. "You're a zealot who has proven yourself willing to interfere in the lives of beings from other Worlds to their detriment, meddling about with things you don't understand without even thinking of the possible consequences, and you have an ideology that I can only describe as fantastically discriminatory."

"And you wield the Darkness!"

Your side of this argument is terrible.

"I know better than anybody what the Darkness is capable of. Like Madoka said, the Light is not good, the Darkness is not bad. It just so happens that the vast majority of the people who use it are a bunch of idiots, and what they did gave all the others a bad name simply because they wielded the same power." Doesn't help that Darkness tends to... well. "Did you know, for example, that one of the first beings who wielded the Darkness was not, in fact, utterly insane? Unfortunately, her apprentice was a power-hungry moron."

"I do not believe you."

"For some reason, I expected that." We could sit here and argue about ancient history for as long as we wanted, but neither of us was going to be making any headway.

"I... do not know what either of you are talking about."

"Matters relating to the Order of Light. And our enemies."

"Oh, more than just that. But, that's unimportant."

If she wanted an explanation, she could get one from Xine.

"So, one last thing before we actually arrive, out of curiosity and just checking to make sure;" Xine and T'fos paused, looking at me. "Has the Keyhole for your World been sealed?"

They looked confused. Equally so.

"Keyhole?" Xine asked.

"Well, nevermind, that tells me all that I need to know."

If Xine didn't have any idea what a Keyhole was, then that means...

Too many things to really be nailed down.