At first, Sora only heard muffled voices outside of his room, though when the door opened he was quick to turn in his chair in hopes that he would see Minato's face. Who he saw instead was still someone familiar, and yet he was just as shocked as Neku was.

"Neku," he replied, his tone a bit more reserved if only because he was already starting to put two and two together. Neku and Roxas had been roommates, so the only reason that Neku would have been moved here was if Roxas was--

Sora clenched his jaw, holding back his questions until the soldier who had brought Neku here left them alone. His mouth was burning from the spicy food, so he took a drink of water and then regarded the other boy with a frown. "Where's Roxas? Do you know? Did you see him this morning?" He hadn't seen Roxas for the whole trip, but he'd figured that they were just missing each other, since it was pretty easy to do. He hadn't seen Kairi either, after all, so --

Wait. Did that mean she was gone too?

He was getting ahead of himself, assuming things that he shouldn't have been, but Sora had lost so many people here that it was hard not to think of it. He was glad that Neku was okay, of course, but what about his Other? And more than that, how had he not somehow felt that Roxas was gone? Not that he had any of the other times, but still...