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Who: Open!
Where: All over the city.
Summary: A general 13th Hour log.
Warnings: Standard violence.

Every month, it seems like, something weird happens, and more often than not it involves combat. Naturally, it's best to be prepared. Where will you be when the 13th Hour strikes?

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It doesn't look like there are any more on the way.

[Nano glances down at her keyblade, and then at Even.]

You wanted to ask me about this?

Correct.

[He gives a simple nod.]

How long have you been in possession of it?

...About three months. But I trained with a replica for a long time before I got the real one.

[Interesting.] Under what circumstances did you begin your training? Had you already been made aware that you would bear it in future?

[Nano shakes her head.]

No, I didn't know. Something happened here last year where some of us traded memories with each other for a few days, and I got the memories of a keyblade wielder. Most of them went away, but I still remembered a little bit about how to use one, so another one of my friends who already had a replica keyblade gave it to me so I could train. I had no idea I'd get a real one.

Memories...

[Somewhere, in the back of his mind, something whispers - yes. Memories can make a keyblade wielder. Of course they can.]

I would hardly have expected that to be the case: but I can see the logic in how such things came to be.

That's good, because I really don't understand it at all.

[He wasn't really expecting her to.]

Don't concern yourself too much with the details. Suffice it to say, memories are powerful things indeed, even when disconnected from their source.

It did make me feel much closer to Xion-san.

Xion...

[He gives the faintest hint of what might be a smile.]

Were you two friends in any way past this - exchange?

We became pretty good friends after it. We didn't know each other that well beforehand.

I see. What did she tell you of her home and origins?

She... didn't like to talk about them very much. I mostly heard about her friends, and how it was her job to fight Heartless.

Did she ever ... name anyone? Any of her friends?

[Long shot, but still...]

There were thirteen others who worked with her. She talked a lot about two of them, Roxas and Axel, and how they went on missions to different worlds together to fight the Heartless.

[And as soon as she says Axel he's not quite listening any more, he looks away almost instinctively. He can almost feel the blade stabbing through his heart.
Could he judge Xion for her choice in friends? Did she even know just what a treacherous snake she'd thrown her lot in with?

And can he judge this strange new keyblade wielder for her choices?

It took him a few long moments, fists clenched, before he manages to speak on. It's a strangled sound as he does.]

...that sounds correct, yes.

U-um... did I say something wrong?

[Nano's looking concerned and a little shamed right now.]

[Even groans, rubs his hand down his face. A moment longer before he goes on-]

You weren't to know. And more fool I for bringing that topic up. But I knew them both - and while Roxas was a boy with potential, Axel was the most [and the floodgates open as he gestures with his free hand] infuriating, disrespectful, treacherous person I have ever had the displeasure to meet! He looked like an upstanding citizen to her, I'm sure, but I'm equally sure that serpent had the girl twisted around his little finger with a smile...

Do me this courtesy. Never mention his name to me again.