[ it's honest. if anything, xehanort is not a sore loser. everything is an opportunity to learn more, to plan ahead next time, to notice mistakes and lock them down. admitting a loss openly was rarer, but there was no reason to put himself at odds with anyone right now by acting haughty. alhaitham had played very well, even if it had been xehanort's own lapse in judgement that had cost him victory. he's pretty sure alhaitham recognises that, too.
he shifts to the side, bringing both legs up onto the bench to cross them and rest his arms over his knees, staring out the window at the ocean. wherever he ended up, there was always an ocean. ]
It's so different from worlds I'd read about. Like a bubble of activity in a sea of little else. [ the fledgling, incomplete places he had visited with his classmates felt so empty compared to this. ] It would've been nice to come here normally.
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[ it's honest. if anything, xehanort is not a sore loser. everything is an opportunity to learn more, to plan ahead next time, to notice mistakes and lock them down. admitting a loss openly was rarer, but there was no reason to put himself at odds with anyone right now by acting haughty. alhaitham had played very well, even if it had been xehanort's own lapse in judgement that had cost him victory. he's pretty sure alhaitham recognises that, too.
he shifts to the side, bringing both legs up onto the bench to cross them and rest his arms over his knees, staring out the window at the ocean. wherever he ended up, there was always an ocean. ]
It's so different from worlds I'd read about. Like a bubble of activity in a sea of little else. [ the fledgling, incomplete places he had visited with his classmates felt so empty compared to this. ] It would've been nice to come here normally.
[ then, bluntly, but not rudely; ]
How old are you?