"I wonder if it gets used much," Kyousuke thought aloud. Not so much by the patient populace, as far as he'd heard, but someone must have been making use of it; it looked anything but abandoned. But he guessed the details of the place didn't matter so much. As long as it could get them to where they were going, that was was all that really mattered.

As the stairs pulled the two of them up, the boy's thoughts wandered back to Kratos and Lloyd, and since it looked like this trip would still be a minute, maybe this would be a good point to tell Sora what was going on. "... Listen," he began. "When we get up there, there's something else we should be looking for, too. Do you remember ever seeing something like a gem and a metal plate on the back of Kratos' hand?"