[Ven looks over, troubled and sympathetic, but when the eye contact's avoided he also looks away again, crossing his arms on his knees and leaning forward after a silent moment.]

Well... if Sora's anything like he was when I met him -- and it sounds like he is, from what you've told me -- I don't think he'd let something like memory get in his way.

[He smiles -- a fond look, if a little somber.]

Even if he doesn't remember us, we remember him -- that's enough to become friends again, isn't it? And... I guess it means we're kind of responsible for looking after him, too. For as long as he needs us to.

[Whether during crystal stasis or after. Both, if Ven has any say in it, although he's wary of being overbearing. He knows what that's like.]