[It's weird, Lea thinks, how easily it is to fake a smile when you've got no feelings to stop you.]
[Little kid Axel sort of knew. So did Saïx. They had their suspicions, and they had this whole plan to rat Xemnas out, whatever the hell he was up to. Even after... the thing that happened... Axel always found himself waiting for the other shoe to drop. There was no way Xemnas could have been telling the complete truth to them, with all his shifty lies and bullshit. No way.]
[Lea expected to figure it out eventually-- just not by waking up with a de-tattooed face and an emotional punch to the gut.]
[Actually, it was just like the emotional punch to the gut he's taking right now. Lea wants to argue, say Demyx can do something, just out of instinct. The words are halfway to his mouth before they die.]
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[Little kid Axel sort of knew. So did Saïx. They had their suspicions, and they had this whole plan to rat Xemnas out, whatever the hell he was up to. Even after... the thing that happened... Axel always found himself waiting for the other shoe to drop. There was no way Xemnas could have been telling the complete truth to them, with all his shifty lies and bullshit. No way.]
[Lea expected to figure it out eventually-- just not by waking up with a de-tattooed face and an emotional punch to the gut.]
[Actually, it was just like the emotional punch to the gut he's taking right now. Lea wants to argue, say Demyx can do something, just out of instinct. The words are halfway to his mouth before they die.]
...No one could.
Me and Saïx tried years ago. We couldn't.