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[xaldin]

I've told you, and everyone, that love made one weak — it was not what finished me, nor the past.

Even with such news, it does not change anything. Believe what you will, if you wish — it's no truth, remember that.

Even if it were true, that woman would be dead by now. I have no qualms over it, she does not exist.

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[afunnygirl]

You're wrong. But it sounds to me like it took an awful lot to make you think that way.

[xaldin]

It hasn't. [ firmly, yet bitterly. ]

Pray tell, what makes you say that I'm wrong? Love, after all, makes one do rather foolish things — I've observed.

[afunnygirl]

I'm not arguing. But love isn't weak. After all, it prevails over darkness.

[xaldin]

Don't mistake the keyblade as a tool of emotion, Belle. It's not what saved you, that love.

You saved yourself.

[afunnygirl]

Oh, this has nothing to do with the keyblade. But you're wrong about that, too. Kind of... Love is what gives us courage. I wouldn't have taken the rose if it was just about saving myself.

[xaldin]

Even if it's temporary?

[afunnygirl]

If what's temporary?

[xaldin]

Love.

It may bloom like a rose, but, just like a rose, it wilts and loses all its petals after time.

[afunnygirl]

But roses can be preserved even after they wither. It might not be the way it was before, but it's still there.

[She can play that too, Xaldin. Don't even.]

[xaldin]

[ sure she can. she's supposed to be the smarter one in the castle, isn't she? ]

Why preserve the dead?

[afunnygirl]

Because they still exist in our hearts.

[xaldin]

That doesn't bring it back to life.

[afunnygirl]

Sometimes I think you're arguing just for the sake of it.

[i_can_smell_you]

You say that yet it was the power of the heart that defeated you in the end.

Emotions hold a unique power and it would be foolish to deny that.

[cryology]

"That woman"?

[xaldin]

Does not exist.

[cryology]

Hardly the question I'd meant to ask.

[xaldin]

Say it again, then, if you please.

[cryology]

I assume she had a name.

[ex_ventus850]

[ He remembers this guy. A guard, right? At the big castle in Radiant Garden. He frowns. ]

Hey, that's not true. It might sound like it, but caring for others makes you stronger.

Not weaker.