❛ you and i are both the same. ❜ [KH!Verse]
Of course there are others like him. Countless strangers scattered amongst the stars. Too weak to save themselves. Too weak to do anything but rely on the strength of others...too weak to do anything but succumb to the seduction of their own darkness and walk a different path from their loved ones.
He did not need reminding.
Cloud looks up at the remains of what was once Radiant Garden-- now Hollow Bastion. The rising falls are hauntingly beautiful, in a way. A reflection of their circumstances. Water flowing upwards in defiance of nature. To find a way when the gravity of reality would rather come crashing down on them.
“Maybe we will always be overshadowed by our darkness,” he muses, parting the flowing water alongside him with his fingertips.