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Exikta stared out over the expanse of Twilight Town, barely hearing the soft ticking of the timer on her wrist. There was nothing stopping her from leaving this clock tower and staying in her room the rest of the day, but somehow, she felt as though she should stay. It was as though if she left, she would miss something momentous.
Her timer had always been slow. Where Nix's timer would always match the clocks perfectly, Dixy's had mysteriously disappeared the day they had gotten there, and Exa's ran fast, Exikta's would linger on each second just long enough to put her out of sync with the rest of the world. Perhaps that was why she felt so disconnected. Hard to stay with the times when your own internal clock couldn't even sort itself out.
Tick. Pause. Tick. Pause. Tick. Pause.
One minute.
Tick. Pause. Tick. Pause. Tick. Pause.
The view from this high up was pretty spectacular. Exikta could see everything, and for once, she felt as though she were at the top of the world, not a second too slow or too fast.
The sound of boots hitting the ground startled her from her stupor. Sparing one more glance at her wrist, which said twenty seconds, Exikta sighed. This person was too early. Sure enough, the person revealed themselves when her wrist said ten seconds.
He looked rather startled when his timer fell from his wrist. In one hand he clutched a stick of sea salt ice cream, and the other was clenched in a fist as he stared at the spot where the plastic timer had been. Exikta looked down at her wrist, only to receive a shock of her own.
Her timer had frozen completely.
When she looked back up at the boy, he was beside her and holding out the ice cream. "You look like you need it more than I do. I'm Roxas, by the way," he said. Exikta took the ice cream, and offered Roxas a small smile.
"I'm Exikta. It's nice to meet you."
Pop.
The timer fell from her wrist and from the clock tower, disappearing into the darkness below.
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