aterat | INTRO ~ FIRST MEMORY

Who; Naminé & OPEN
What; Wandering around the city.
Where; Around the city.
When; Late November
Warnings; N/A

It was all explained but it didn't feel like enough. A portal from her world to this world but why had it just been her? Riku had come to get her, he'd been there with her… reaching out to take her hand. The way he had to Sora many times throughout his memories.

Naminé clutched her palms to her chest, the blue bag she'd been given dangling against her stomach as she walked. She wasn't alone here but there was so much that she didn't understand or know. Who would answer her? What kind of world was this? It wasn't like Travers Town or Radiant Garden but it was similar in many ways. Was there magic here?

The questions were consistent and overwhelming and she didn't have an answer.

More of this world and her new life here was explained to her but she still felt awkward. She wandered through the city with no destination in mind. There was so much to see but her simple white dress wasn't warm enough as fall turned to winter. She stopped in the middle of the street and looked up at the sky.

"It's so blue." She shivered. "Cold..."

Her arms wrapped around her torso as she looked for a building that might provide her some warmth. She wasn't paying attention to where she was going, only that she wanted to warm up.

Bodies were so strange...

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"I promise I will." Naminé didn't make many promises but she understood how precious items from home must be. She wasn't going to do anything to hurt it or betray Arkady's kindness.

"It didn't use to be cold but this body is different from my last one." She turned and her confusion betrayed her. "Huh? I don't know what that is." Naminé quickly jogged to catch up. "But I'd like to try it."

"Different?" She gave a curious head tilt at that and hoped that Naminé would offer a bit more. At least this place had that, the people were always interesting to learn from. None of them had boring stories, they all had something new about them and she loved that.

Arkady looked surprised for a moment and then clapped her hands together excitedly. "Then we'll have to try it for sure! It's warm and tingly and fun!"

"Yes. Before I was in a different husk. I was a nobody but this body... it was made and given to me." She placed her palms over her head and inhaled a deep breath. "It is different than the one I had before. I feel more whole, like I could truly be like everyone else."

She followed Arkady with a warm smile despite the heavy topic of conversation.

"Let's get some." She stated as they headed towards the tavern, thinking now of the replica and of Sora. What happened to them?

"Everybody is a somebody," she said with a smile. There was obviously a lot there she didn't really understand about what Naminé was saying. That was okay though, not understanding was never a thing that should be worried. "Different is sometimes the best."

She gestured ahead towards the tavern they were approaching. "There it is!"

"Ah. Well, yes but not exactly." She knew that it was probably a bit strange but a Nobody wasn't just a person who thought they held no value, they were a husk. "I was born from a pure heart... You see, when someone's heart is stolen by a heartless a husk is left in its place. This husk is called a Nobody because it is a form without a heart but the heart that created me was pure. So I was born... different."

Naminé followed her new friend into the tavern and smiled at the thick warm smiles that wafted through the warm space. "I hope that makes sense. I don't know all of the reasons but the scientists do. They were the ones who gave me this body."

"That seems complicated. Your world must have a lot of rules." That was definitely a curious story. "What determines who has a pure heart and who doesn't?" She couldn't even imagine people with pure hearts if she was honest. It seemed like everyone she'd met since the disaster in her world had a corrupt heart.

Arkady waved and ordered two ciders and then moved over to sit down at a table. Her nose scrunched up at the mention of scientists. "Why did they give you the body?"

"You could say that." She took a seat once they were inside and tried her best to think of a way to explain it. "There are many worlds. The place where I awoke was once a world of light but it had been frozen in time and was then called Castle Oblivion. I awoke without memories and I was alone." Though the Organization quickly found her.

"The body I had then was borrowed. It was the body of a girl who's heart was stolen. Luckily her heart was safe but once it returned to her... I shouldn't have existed anymore. For some reason I did. I was a part of her but also separate. Because her heart was pure, I was born, but I had to return to her." And it was then that she lost herself and rejoined Kairi.

"It was only later that my essence was separated from Kairi again. It was strange but I suppose over time, we somehow became two separate people with different memories." She paused and lowered her head. "I'm not sure I understand all of it..." Naminé wasn't sure if she was making sense.

"Castle Oblivion? What an ominous name!" It was kind of hard to not find a name like that at least a little bit funny. Besides, the conversation seemed pretty serious and it was always better to lighten things up just a little bit, right?

"How does a heart get stolen?" She took a sip from her drink and tilted her head. "It sounds super complicated. Does that mean you were the same as Kairi or were you always you born from her?" Was she asking too many questions? Curiosity couldn't really be helped.

"It wasn't always called that but when the world was sealed, it was given that name." Her lips turned into a frown. "It isn't a good place." It was cold and empty and it was more than just the feeling of the place. It radiated that emptiness and affected those who walked within it.

"I don't know for sure." Naminé followed Arkady's lead and took a sip of her own drink. "There is darkness in everyone's heart and when that darkness grows too strong, the heart is turned into a shadow, a heartless. The light is gone. It was thought that the light and those hearts were hidden behind a door to another world."

She shook her head again. "I wasn't born until Kairi's heart had been taken from her but there was no darkness. No heartless was made but I was. Every time a heartless is create, there is a husk created as well. A shell of the body without the heart." Technically, Naminé was only a few years old though she had the body of someone in their late teens.

"It is confusing." Though it didn't seem like Naminé minded all the questions.

"At least it's name is honest!" It was a pretty weak attempt at trying to find the positive side of thing, but at least she gave it an attempt. An attempt was better than nothing, right?

She listened to Naminé's explanation and took another few sips of her drink. There was definitely no denying that the explanation was strange and confusing. "The darkness sounds kinda scary. Your world definitely sounds like it has a lot of rules. Convoluted ones."

A shell of a body without a heart. That was very strange to hear about. "You seem like you though. Like you definitely have a heart and everything!"

INTRO ~ FIRST MEMORY

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