[Aqua is quiet, contemplating in silence. Guess it was story time after all.]
Do you want me to go?
No, you should stay and listen Otamamon. I'm sorry that I haven't told you this sooner. [It wasn't a story with a happy ending, and Otamamon was a sensitive girl. But that didn't excuse Aqua's silence.]
To answer your question from before, the three of us were trained. Terra, Ven, and myself studied under Master Eraqus. [There was a slight pause at the name. Master.] Ven came along in the training a little later than us, but we all lived and trained together, sharing the dream of becoming Masters.
Then came the day of Terra and mine's Mark of Mastery Exam. [The day everything changed.] We were younger than the proper age to take it, but Master Eraqus was confident we would both pass. There was another Master that watched over our test as well, Master Eraqus's friend and Ven's former teacher before he came to us. Master Xehanort. [Again, a pause. But not out of reverence this time, Master Xehanort deserved none of it.] Something happened during our exam, something Master Eraqus had not planned on. Someone had let in Darkness. And in our duel, Terra-
[It was the briefest moment, but it didn't change that he gave into the power.]
I passed the Mark of Mastery, and Terra failed. And from then on, everything was different. [She stops the story, giving Sora a chance to take it all in. There was still a fair way to go.]
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Do you want me to go?
No, you should stay and listen Otamamon. I'm sorry that I haven't told you this sooner. [It wasn't a story with a happy ending, and Otamamon was a sensitive girl. But that didn't excuse Aqua's silence.]
To answer your question from before, the three of us were trained. Terra, Ven, and myself studied under Master Eraqus. [There was a slight pause at the name. Master.] Ven came along in the training a little later than us, but we all lived and trained together, sharing the dream of becoming Masters.
Then came the day of Terra and mine's Mark of Mastery Exam. [The day everything changed.] We were younger than the proper age to take it, but Master Eraqus was confident we would both pass. There was another Master that watched over our test as well, Master Eraqus's friend and Ven's former teacher before he came to us. Master Xehanort. [Again, a pause. But not out of reverence this time, Master Xehanort deserved none of it.] Something happened during our exam, something Master Eraqus had not planned on. Someone had let in Darkness. And in our duel, Terra-
[It was the briefest moment, but it didn't change that he gave into the power.]
I passed the Mark of Mastery, and Terra failed. And from then on, everything was different. [She stops the story, giving Sora a chance to take it all in. There was still a fair way to go.]