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Xaldin still looks exactly like he did yesterday: himself, shiny. Very, very shiny from dreadlocks to boot soles. His colours are all the same but each and every one of them glimmers. A bottle of Atlantean protrudes from his hood along with the bobble of a Moogle. Xigbar is blessedly still unconscious.

[Kupo kupo: Xaldin]

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"One hopes it cannot harm him," Teja says.

He still looks the way he had the last two days -- fake stage armour, scowly face, and moustache.

"Greetings, Xaldin!"

"Nah." Xaldin says softly, "I've got Elixir for him. It'll even cure the hangover. I'm just waiting for him to wake up and not be a Moogle. Good day, Teja."

"Would you know how long this holiday takes?" Teja says. "To my counting, this is the third day that I am inflicted with this moustache, and the rest."

"Normally Halloween only lasts one day." Xaldin says, "Except in Halloween Town, where it lasts all year. These are not our Halloween Town bodies, however."

"Ahhh - you mentioned having different bodies in different worlds," Teja says. "What are your bodies from that world like?"

"He's just head, hands, and feet." Xaldin says, "I have stitches instead of scars, and snakes instead of dreadlocks."

"Like Medusa!" Teja says. "But it is not that bad. Not having a torso would be worse."

Pause.

"Would you know whether Billy and Teddy have left yet, for their world and their war?"

"I met her here." Xaldin says with a frown and a snort, "No. My hair is all snakes, and I would not mind it even if I could mind such things. Xigbar feeds frogs to them sometimes.

"I haven't gotten word."

"Neither have I, but they meant to go yesterday, or today," Teja says. "One assumes whatever shape the bar has inflicted upon them will fade when they leave."

He ponders for a moment.

"Then, I shall assume they are still here, and will leave daggers for them with the bar. They do have magic and Lessers and great powers, but sometimes, one just needs something to stick in an enemy, or cut a rope with."

"A good idea." Xaldin agrees with a nod, "Thank you, Teja, for watching out for the Organisation's other allies."

"Teddy asked me to train him in king-craft, also," Teja says to Xaldin. "So I will be looking out for my own apprentice, also. But yes, all of us need to stand together, for the day when you will be enheartened, and what will follow."

"Again, thank you." Xaldin is quiet for a moment, "Demyx came in last night. With a heart. We don't know how he managed it."

Teja is silent at that, pondering the implications. So, the first -- no, second!! -- of the Nobodies had gained a heart, he hadn't told the others before, and none knew how he'd done it.

And Demyx -- the musician who pretended to have fun -- had done this thing all on the quiet, on his own.

"How is he?" Teja asks.

"I don't know." Xaldin says, "Larxene handed him off to his Princess and then reported to me. I haven't seen him, and I do not expect to."

"His Princess?" Teja asks.

He has not heard of princesses, in connection with the Nobodies and their worlds.

"She's someone from here." Xaldin says with a shrug, "I've seen her in the distance, but I haven't talked to her. You'd have to talk to Xigbar about her."

"Why his princess?" Teja asks. "In what way would a Nobody have a princess? To rule him? Or is that merely a friend that happens to be a princess?"

"Princesses are special." Xaldin says after a moment, "A Princess, regardless of lineage, in our universe is a Princess of Heart. A woman with no touch of Darkness in her, regardless of what may happen in her life. The are all Light. One who gathers seven Princesses of Heart can attain Kingdom Hearts, which makes them precious even to us.

"She is Demyx's Princess because she has told Xigbar that she is."

"What is Kingdom Hearts?" Teja asks.

He has heard the term before, but let it go, in the middle of the other strangeness.

"It is where hearts come from," Xaldin says, "and where they return when free."

Teja ponders this, again.

It takes a while to truly wrap his mind around the concept.

"So if one gathers seven princesses of that kind," he finally says, "he can open that place, or attain that state, and gain a heart -- or would he gain hearts for all of you?"

"Xemnas told us that it would be for all of us." Xaldin says softly, "But he also sent us to worlds where we would fail, and die, without all the backup that our elements could provide. So. I don't know."

"Might Demyx have found just the one heart, with the help of his Princess?" Teja ponders. There is no help about the truth in Xemnas's claims, after all; so no reason to speak of it further.

"Larxene said that she had to give him to the Princess, so it would seem not." Xaldin says with a shake of his head, "I would have to talk to him to have any hope of knowing how he got the heart."

"Is there a reason why you cannot do that?" Teja asks.

"I don't know where he is." Xaldin says quietly, "And I do not know if he will be willing to speak to me, now that he is no longer part of the Organisation. I have been as I must, and that does not include kind."

"Even Axel, and Yrael, shared how they accomplished it, so you may know more, and more may gain hearts," Teja says. "I do not know Demyx except in passing; but he was strong enough to withstand non-existence, so he would be strong enough to put a grudge aside, also."

"He may share with the others. We did not part on good terms when last we spoke."

"Would it matter much?" Teja asks, not trying to wonder how Nobodies can quarrel among themselves. They would not be offended, surely?

Ahhh, no, that is a problem to ponder in front of his fireplace at night, or in his bath, at leisure -- no answer needed now!

"Would not all that he tells Xigbar, Lexaeus, Larxene or Zexion be shared among yourselves, in any case?"

"He has emotions now." Xaldin states, "He might bear a grudge against me, personally. I do not know."

Teja nods, comprehending. So what had been said between them the last time might now, with Demyx feeeling emotions, be understood anew, and lead to anger, or a grudge. His unspoken question had been answered, but not what he had said.

"If he speaks to Zexion, or Larxene," Teja says again, "would not they share what they learned, with all of you?"

"Possibly." Xaldin says, with a shrug, "And possibly not. We are all selfish."

"Considering the way," Teja says, "Zexion has been researching and discussing your methods, I am sure he would do the same with Demyx's."

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