Hair like snow, eyes that gleam, things aren't always what they seem...

Location: Hallways of Hollow Bastion
Characters: Zack, Riku
Timeline: August 1st, 11:30 PM
Warnings: None.
Open: No
Status: Complete

Synopsis: Zack? Meet Riku. Watch them talk about various things.

Giving Yuffie the slip had turned out to be unusually difficult, but Riku managed it. He'd been giving people the slip on a planetary basis for over two years. Riku needed to make sure that the heartless creating machine in the bowels of the Hallow Bastion were offline - and it was something Yuffie definitely didn't need to see. Some things were just better off left buried, and this counted as one of them.

Riku supposed he should be glad that Yuffie probably didn't know how to use the lifts, and would likely be too weirded out by them to attempt them. At least he didn't have to go to the Rising Falls, that area had some bad memories.

Riku could hear the heartless getting restless. They weren't any danger to him, not yet. But there were more people about, more hearts, more tasty morsels just out of reach, and soon they'd loose patience and try and grab it. If the machine was on, wiping them out would be much more difficult by the fact that there would continue to be more of them.

Riku passed by the kitchen on his way to Ansem's study (the lower level one if he remembered correctly - the Hallow Bastion had three large kitchens among the smaller ones, one lower, one mid, one higher, because otherwise finding food could be a several hour escapade) unaware of the other two who were on the same level with him.