[color=20b2aa]“Way to go, Kai. Because of that big mouth of yours, you’ve alienated yourself from the one person who was going to help you find Aira.”[/color] As usual, Kai managed to screw things up. Unlike in the past, Kai could always take a few hours to think about where he went wrong, then later apologized. He did it when he, Aira, and their friends would head to the main section of Twilight Town and do battle with Hayner’s crew and Seifer’s gang of delinquents. They’d get into scuffles and, when Kai would run his big mouth, he’d screw things up - especially when it came to their friend, Exie. They usually clashed and Kai had the tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, which resulted in both boys saying things they didn’t mean. As bad as it was, they had Aira to be the mediator. She always saw the good in everyone and immediately, they would apologize. It was in moments like these that Kai really missed Aira. She was his conscious. In a lot of ways, she prevented him from actually opening his yapper when it should just stay shut. “Man, you really screwed up, didn’t you?” Kai looked around, seeing who said that. After a moment, he saw some man in front of him - a tall man, at that - wearing a black cloak. [color=20b2aa]“Huh?”[/color] “The conversation you had with that girl. You really shouldn’t have said all of those things. And comparing her to that old friend of yours? Talk about oof.” The man, who sounded like a man, at least, let out a low whistle. Looking at this hooded figure, Kai couldn’t shake it, but there was definitely something about this guy that the blond teen found familiar. The way he spoke and the way it seemed he was so laid-back had given Kai vibes of someone he used to know a long time ago. Shrugging, Kai tried to ignore the guy by walking forward -but it was obvious the hooded figure wasn’t going to give up that easily. “I mean, you know you were in the wrong, right?” [color=20b2aa]“Don’t you have someone else to harass?”[/color] “No one here screwed up as much as you did. Plus, I’ve been watching you, Kai.” And now he had the teen’s attention. [color=20b2aa]“I don’t remember giving you my name,”[/color] Kai said, turning around to face him, but the hooded figure was gone. [color=20b2aa]“Wait where did you--”[/color] He was now behind Kai. “You didn’t.” Kai turned around again and he was gone[i]again[/i]. “But I do know you, Kai. Just like I know you’re a Keyblade wielder.” [color=20b2aa]“How did you--”[/color] “Like I said, I’ve been watching you for a while. Now!” The man was now beside Kai. “Go find Cielle. Apologize to her and make amends.” [color=20b2aa]“How? I don’t have a horse.”[/color] “Don’t you though?” The man laughed, snapping his glove-covered fingers. Almost as soon as he did, a white horse with green and purple lines of its fur dyed, the man would only look on as Kai’s reaction would be shifted from despair to wonder. Kai didn’t know what to say to this - well, that wasn’t true. He had one thing on his mind that he just had to ask. [color=20b2aa]“How did you do that?”[/color] “It’s magic,” the man stated simply. It was in that moment that Kai’s smile was reduced into an expression that read ‘really dude? Really?’ That was the same thing that Cielle had said to him when he asked her how she was able to change their clothes. And just like he was then, Kai didn’t appreciate the lack of specifics used. Just once he’d like a detailed explanation about how exactly people did this little thing called magic - preferably, in great detail and small words. [color=20b2aa]“Well, thank you!”[/color] Kai gave the hooded man a nod and a smile, mounting the horse. “Be seeing you, kid!” As soon as Kai was going to look back at him, he was gone. He didn’t know who that man was or why he was willing to help him out, but he didn’t have time to worry about some stranger. Kai knew what he had to do. He knew he had to set off into the frozen wilderness of this land, find Cielle (wherever she might be), and apologize to her. [color=20b2aa]“Yah!”[/color] Kai kicked the horse on the sides of the body. And as it neighed, they were off into the cold, with Kai’s resolve to make things right with CIelle being the one thing guiding him.