He turned, perhaps a little faster than he'd meant to.
Something hiding under the calm veneer of his eyes glittered with wrath. But the outer sheen of his expression--and the rest of his face? Nothing. Perfect calm. Closed doors.
From the way the former Nobody talked, it almost seemed as if he expected to be held accountable. That was what made the wrath surge in Riku's heart. But as soon as he felt that old, familiar Darkness rise within him, he pressed it down again--forcibly tempered it by conjuring the Light of logic and understanding. Ienzo himself looked haggard; he was also worried. And Sora was Ienzo's best friend too; there was no way he'd hide information if he even had an inkling that doing so would bring Sora to harm.
And being that Sora had told everyone to leave him alone, in quite plain terms, Riku could only infer that Sora had made Ienzo promise to keep quiet.
Why tell Ienzo where he was going, though? Why not himself, or Kairi, or Vanitas or Ven or Xi or Rox...? The moment he thought about it, the answers came; because he, and Sora's siblings, would worry like nuts. As Vanitas was no doubt doing, judging by the WARNING: CATASTROPHE nature of his text messages. Riku's own sense of worry howled at him from within, but he kept it shoved down by his continuing stream of logic. And Kairi? Kairi would let Sora go, would keep to his wishes and not try to follow. Kairi trusted Sora, implicitly, knew that he was able to take care of himself. But Kairi was also brutally honest, and if someone asked her where Sora was, and she knew...she would tell. And they would seek him out and drag him back.
Sora needed to be alone. That much was clear from the note. Given everything that the boy had been through, both recently and in the past few years...Riku could understand that. He could accept it.
But that didn't mean he had to like it. And Ienzo being in the know--despite that making more sense, because Ienzo was calm; Ienzo wouldn't be worry-crazed enough to hunt Sora down and drag him back kicking and screaming (Chernabog...)--didn't really help Riku's outlook on the matter.
So he stood there for a few long moments in utter silence, mastering himself.
"...that's it, huh." His voice was supremely calm, but perhaps a little bit too low. "I'm assuming that if something happens, the rules change. But...that's it."
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