[ While perhaps he may not come to outright say just yet, Riku silently mulls over the fact that Arden has, quite honestly, made a life and forged a new identity for himself within this world. For as distraught and even annoyed as he had been to find that his replica was here (and even friends with Sora), he hadn't even entertained the idea of how his own arrival here must have made Arden feel... maybe as though everything he had worked hard to create for himself would all be for nothing, come to mean nothing, making him feel as though he were nothing.
Maybe that's how he would feel... maybe it's how he did... Riku isn't so sure and can only guess because that's how he would feel were the shoe on the other foot.
However, there's something that still lingers on his mind, something that he's been chewing his lower lip over until he finally decides to just say it. ]
You knew, didn't you?
[ Softly, he comes to pause in his words, looking to the ground as they go. ]
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Maybe that's how he would feel... maybe it's how he did... Riku isn't so sure and can only guess because that's how he would feel were the shoe on the other foot.
However, there's something that still lingers on his mind, something that he's been chewing his lower lip over until he finally decides to just say it. ]
You knew, didn't you?
[ Softly, he comes to pause in his words, looking to the ground as they go. ]
About Sora.
[ Sora and... his someone else. ]