Riku had explored the city, going around and around until
he was quite certain he was lost.
It didn’t happen often, but when you were used to a small
island, it took a while to get used to cities. He thought he had the hang of
it, then he wouldn’t find himself someplace new and keep getting turned around.
Destiny wasn’t here.
Hadn’t been here as far as he could tell.
He wasn’t entirely sure she intended to come here.
The natives were few and far between, and after the first
day when he had seen a cloaked figure disappear into the desert, he hadn’t seen
another soul.
Even the Heartless were keeping a low profile. There were
some, but they seemed to be hiding out down below, and he hadn’t been able to
find a way into the catacombs.
His first break was noticing the sand had been moved.
Someone had cleared one of the houses during the night.
It wasn’t much to go on, but he was sure it hadn’t been
the wind at work, and there were faint traces of a trail in the sand, someone
forcing their way through.
It wasn’t Destiny, or at least it wasn’t just Destiny.
She was small and light enough to dance over the sand dunes with few problems,
she wouldn’t have had to force her way through.
Riku followed the trail, whoever it was seemed to be
heading directly to their destination, which was curious. Only the foolish, the
desperate and the insanely powerful took straight routes on Worlds touched by heartless.
Sora was often all three. Riku thought a little sourly.
His friend really needed to learn to think once in a while.
Riku was catching them up, he could hear voices.
A man’s voice was monologuing, and. Riku rolled his eyes,
having heard enough of those to last a lifetime and a half.
Riku took a short cut, darting over a high rise and up a
wall so that he would be able to see those he was tracking before they knew he
was there.
A tall man in a lab coat was struggling through the sand,
and walking just ahead of him was a child sized woman carrying something... it
was green, furry and beaked.
Riku’s brain took a short while processing the image.
The small woman said something in response to the
monologue, and Riku catch the voice on the wind.
It was Destiny. Her hair had faded to silver, but Mickey
had said as much.
Now how to convince her to return with him?
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