The issue was not that the Pricklemane was unhelpful; rather, what discomfited Even was its tendency to run off into a dark corner and reappear with a veritable army of Nightmares on its tail. He preferred it where he could keep an eye on it.
It wasn't as though there weren't enough Nightmares and to spare for everyone. Even summoned his shield and -
Were those Keyblades? Both of them?
A Meow Wow bouncing off his shield and knocking it back into his shoulder jolted him out of his surprise. Almost absently, he sent an icicle at the offending Nightmare, then followed up by sowing ice under the feet of another group. His Pricklemane bounced at a Komory Bat now briefly cut off from its fellows.
(How could they have Keyblades, Even wondered. Aqua might be like the 'Master', from the past or the future, but Xion - Xion was his contemporary, only missed by weeks at most. There was no young female Keyblade wielder whose Nobody she could be; they would have known of such a person. Who was she? What was she concealing?)
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It wasn't as though there weren't enough Nightmares and to spare for everyone. Even summoned his shield and -
Were those Keyblades? Both of them?
A Meow Wow bouncing off his shield and knocking it back into his shoulder jolted him out of his surprise. Almost absently, he sent an icicle at the offending Nightmare, then followed up by sowing ice under the feet of another group. His Pricklemane bounced at a Komory Bat now briefly cut off from its fellows.
(How could they have Keyblades, Even wondered. Aqua might be like the 'Master', from the past or the future, but Xion - Xion was his contemporary, only missed by weeks at most. There was no young female Keyblade wielder whose Nobody she could be; they would have known of such a person. Who was she? What was she concealing?)