[Kairi doesn't notice Riku at first. It's idyllic, really, the way she hums and occasionally moistens her thumb so she can turn the page. It's almost like there isn't a thing wrong in the world, like she never lost her home or her family.
The bark is unfamiliar and a little startling. She drops her book into her lap, and reaches out to give Mickey a friendly scritch in greeting. And then, among Minnie's excited peeping, she sees a flash of silver.
Her expression falls, eyes widening. Although he looks different-- older, taller, muscles sculpted, paler skin-- there's no mistaking who he is.
She thought he was dead.
It's her fault, really, for being out of town these past couple weeks.]
Ri--
[It's really him. She thought he was gone, after the chaos of trying to get everyone on the boats and not seeing him and then the storm--]
Riku!
[Book forgotten, she clumsily scrapes to her feet and runs toward him, with the full intention of a. giving chase if he runs off like a scared little girl or b. hugging him fiercely if he continues to stand there.]
i'm not sorry for the heartbreak
The bark is unfamiliar and a little startling. She drops her book into her lap, and reaches out to give Mickey a friendly scritch in greeting. And then, among Minnie's excited peeping, she sees a flash of silver.
Her expression falls, eyes widening. Although he looks different-- older, taller, muscles sculpted, paler skin-- there's no mistaking who he is.
She thought he was dead.
It's her fault, really, for being out of town these past couple weeks.]
Ri--
[It's really him. She thought he was gone, after the chaos of trying to get everyone on the boats and not seeing him and then the storm--]
Riku!
[Book forgotten, she clumsily scrapes to her feet and runs toward him, with the full intention of a. giving chase if he runs off like a scared little girl or b. hugging him fiercely if he continues to stand there.]