Shion nodded, he remembered the visitors from Hinoto-Ri. The strange group that had appeared altogether from the same place, from a world that had not been destroyed.

They had known about other places. Places that Shion assumed were controlled by others just as powerful as Zo, as Ruana.

He hadn't thought of it. They hadn't even figured it in to their plans. Had not stopped to contemplate that someone else might grab their souls... If Xion was here and he was... where was everyone else? Had anyone got home? Had everything been for nothing?

Anger was growing in him, but there was nothing to fight, nothing to focus his anger on. He had no idea about anything. He reached out, grabbing Xion's hand, she was here. It was alright. Breathing.

"This place doesn't feel real." The tower had not been real, not in the way they had thought it was. But this was a dream... "How do you know?"