[She's tired. She's so tired. She fought a war for her worlds and her existence against Ruana already, and just finished a second war over the latter against Xemnas. Neither was easy. Both were great and terrible in their own right.

And now she'd have to do it all over again.

And what would this third war she was about to enter be about? Sure it was about reforging some "blade", probably something to do with Kingdom Hearts. But why? What did he want to do with it? Why did he want them for it? Why did she have to keep fighting?

She's so tired.]

Aqua... [She shakes her head. The ground was suddenly so very interesting right now.]

At home... nobody understands this. Nobody. They accept it, and me. They still care about me, but... they can't understand this. I'm not sure if they want to, I'm not sure if I want them to.

[Some of the things that happened in the Tower are the kind of things she wouldn't wish on her worst enemy.]

And the Tower... I can try... but some people...

[Light she thinks of Shion. Shion and his eighteen-something-fucking deaths in the Tower. Who had struggled with berserker problems when someone tried to hurt her. She thinks of her dad, who tried to tackle Ganondorf when he was torturing her, a year before he had adopted her, back when she was his rookie, not yet his daughter.]

I can't let them. This... this isn't their world. And they'll get hurt, even killed for my sake. And they'll die for real this time.

[Even as she treats her deaths in the tower with blasé carelessness, she's long since begun to realize how fragile they really were, now.

She's so tired.]