Suddenly, the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. Aqua knew that feeling; years trapped wandering the Dark Coastline had made such an instinct a necessity to survive - she was being watched.

She assured herself that nothing bad would come of the feeling. They were at a celebration, after all, and only Mickey's allies had been invited. So instead of reacting to the sensation as she normally would, Aqua simply scanned the thickening crowd in an attempt to determination who was causing it. Finally, she found it: a girl, around her own age. The one she'd met in the Dark Realm, who'd thought they knew each other.

Aqua watched her inquisitively as she neared, but didn't speak just yet. A moment of relative silence passed, before she asked, "You want to know why I don't recognize you, don't you?"