An escort mission? Oh geez, that doesn’t sound all that hard-

[But then he takes in the look on Riku’s face and he twigs. He wouldn’t be smiling like that if it was just any old run of the mill princess he’d been assigned to collect, and while Sora knows more than a few princesses, there’s only one who can make both of them grin like that.]

Wait. You don’t mean- was it Kairi? You went to get Kairi and bring her to Master Yen’s Sid’s?

[And then something awful occurs to him about why she’d need to be brought there in the first place. He hopes, he seriously hopes, that it has nothing to do with protecting her.]

How is she? Is she okay? Was she safe?