[ Riku knows the feeling.

In the wake of much of what's happened prior to this? Riku feels the absence of his own Keyblade keenly. His heart is still too raw, too broken, for Braveheart to answer its call. Considering what Kairi and Sora meant to him, how they formed the real core to his central goal, the driving force that kept him on the path to improving, ever stronger each day, it doesn't surprise him when his heart is broken enough that even his keyblade rejects him.

He needs to be stronger. To protect what's left. The way Akira is, gathering up what he can to take back. Perhaps... that's why he says anything at all. So Akira can do what he can't.

Save them. ]

You got it.

[ That question, though... ]

Too many points of entry. Too obvious. You noticed the camouflage practically makes the armory invisible, right?

[ Riku exhales after a time, after holding his breath, of thinking about their situation for a while. ]

I kept thinking about what might happen when it got attacked. I guess... I didn't want all our friends taken down at once.