[Since her encounter with Discord, Aqua has been keeping largely to herself. It's not for love of solitude, however, like one might easily expect. No, it's simply that she doesn't much care to speak to any else (she has no responsibility for their antics and no real interest to involve herself, either) and has been lucky enough to avoid the roving Cambots.

By the time one catches up with her again, she's leaving the media deck, with a pair of books balanced on her back. It's not the easiest thing to manage, and she knows the books aren't the best. But she expects nothing less than utter perfection from herself and if she can't pull some small fragment of useful information out of even these books then something is dreadfully wrong.

Still, for all she notes the Cambot's presence as it follows her along she makes no indication of it, nor does she shoo it away. She sees no reason to bother, after all.]

[Today it's the return of people fighting against the darker selves, as Cambot turns to the corner to find Aqua facing down her other self. By the looks of things, they're on the weapons deck, and Aqua's shade had has picked a lightweight wooden sword to counter Aqua's keyblade with. This isn't going to be a one-sided fight - the shade has already seen to that.

Still, Aqua isn't charging in either. She's letting the shade speak for herself, although the expression on her face makes it quite clear she isn't buying any of the shade's words.]

How dare you speak of them like that!

[It's what you've always wanted to say, the shade whispers, silent to anyone but her. Think of what you could be without them.]

This isn't about them! It's about what you've done.

[And with nothing more than that, Aqua charges into the fray. It's time to end this and she's not about to let her shade get to her any more that it already has. The sooner it's down the better.]

[Well, here's something unusual. Either Liz has done something drastically different with her hair or... no wait, that's actually Aqua. Seems she's switched outfits with Liz for the holidays. She doesn't seem quite entirely used to it though, even if she's doing her best to pull the look off as best she can.]

It's strange, isn't it? Being in someone else's clothes?