[ Arden stares right into that blindfold. ]

Doesn't know what it's like to feel abandoned?

[ Should he say this... argh... maybe it won't help. Maybe it will. ]

Maybe you should ask him about that to his face.

[ Because as far as he remembers - and those are real memories for him - Sora was doing nothing but chase Riku down. He wasn't powerful enough to find the one person in the whole castle he was looking for. Talk about not good enough. He got the impression Sora would understand a lot more than Riku gave him credit for. ]

Maybe then you won't have to pretend.