"Good..... I didn't know they could fly." Xikkuyo sighed in relief, glancing up at the ceiling herself as though halfway expecting more to swoop down on them at any moment. She'd be sure to pay attention to the air from now on..... The flying Heartless definitely seemed more dangerous than the landbound ones, so far. None of the normal Shadows had tried using magic yet, after all!

The clap on her shoulder made her jump a little, but Xikkuyo smiled regardless, awkward but pleased. What had she done? Everything had happened so fast, she'd hardly had a chance to think about it..... At this point, it was hard to know much than Axel did. Still, he'd asked a question; it was her job as a student to answer as best she could. "I just thought they shouldn't--shouldn't be here, hurting you, so..... So I needed to just..... take them away."

Not make them go away--instinctively, she knew she wasn't capable of something like that, even if it wasn't something she could articulate. She couldn't force things on others like that, not with her powers, nothing nearly so violently offensive. But she could take, yes, and she could give. She could nurture and heal, grow and strengthen..... or cripple and steal, weaken and hinder. She couldn't make something out of nothing--it all needed to come from somewhere. Every little spark of creation needed a vessel to touch, and every blossoming new life needed to begin with a seed.