"No worries," he replied with a sly smile on his face. Bowing? So polite, even if he wasn't about to start standing on formality... this was a change of pace, for sure. Had the girl's other self been as - proper? So different from Roxas' cluelessness in his first days, Xion's silence...
Everyone coped differently, he knew - and these kids were a case study in just how differently.

"As for me? Name's Axel. Got it memorized?" Not that he was expecting her to, entirely, right now. Not with everything else in her life, all the new names to learn - even her own. But old habits, as ever, died hard.