This couldn't be more different than where they'd just been. At least the alleyway was offering them some shade: all the same, Kousyxe was squinting and blinking in the light as he adjusted. The sights, sounds - even the smells, the dust and spices from the bazaar, the unfamiliar air - it was hitting him like a rock.
And yet...

I'm in a new world. I should be excited. He knew it, knew how he'd thrown himself at the idea of the first other world that he'd seen. But this one? It was just - another strange thing that was happening, right then.
Kousyxe looked around, blankly baffled, before turning to Demyx with a grin on his face. If he should be excited, he was at least going to try and look it. "Hey, this is awesome! So what's up first?"

If he was going to put his past behind him, he had to start somewhere, after all.