[The list of people Xehanort views favorably with few negatives is very, very short. Sanae happens to be on it. She hadn't hesitated to try to help, even though it hadn't worked she'd tried.

He picks a place to sit and settles there carefully. Sooner or later he would have had to run into her temple, it was rather nice that it was so soon. A pity she wasn't here though..

When Lu Meng returns with tea, he accepts a cup with one of those canine not-smiles. Whatever else might have happened today, at least this was going to be a pleasant visit.]

She certainly didn't hesitate to try to help me, a stranger at the time. I won't soon forget her kindness. Or yours, for that matter.

[Hospitality is also valuable!]

Happily my questions are not particularly invasive.. I think. It came to my attention during the beach party and later on that when we arrive here, shinki and god alike, there's much we wish or need to know that simply isn't told to us right away or easily discovered without doing a lot of asking around. I intend to remedy this, and write a small guidebook for the newly arrived. Being new myself, I know the sorts of troubles I ran into.. but other perspectives on what confused them, or they wished to know upon waking here, would also be invaluable. So here I am, to find out.

[He gestures a bit with his free hand before wrapping it around the cup again. It smelled good, not unlike one of the teas Master Ansem favored..]