Somehow, I could help but feel a connection between me and Tris. I caught Tris staring at me.
"Um.....what's wrong?" I asked him.
"Nothing," he answered.
"Is it my name? Does it sound funny to you?" I asked with a pouty face.
"No, it's not that. I was just thinking about something." he grinned. His grinned didn't sound too convincing. I turn towards king Trident.
"Excuse me, your greatness, but I must show our visitor around the kingdom, now that he is a merman." I bowed.
"Of course. I grant you permission." Trident approved. I smiled and grabbed Tris' hand. "Lets go."
I swam around the kingdom, showing Tris all the things I could remember. "And this" I started to say, "is the reef where I lived." The home was a horrible sight. So many broken things... but I didn't care.
"What happened here?" Tris asked.
"I don't know..." I simply replied. "I guess it was always this way. I can't remember."
"Did someone live here with you?"
"I don't really know."
"Why don't you know?"
"I... I don't know. I woke up in this reef so I figured this is where I lived." I told him. I swam to my bed, then the broken mirror. He followed behind. I could see him in the mirror.
"Don't you think that this place was destoyed by the heartless?" Tris asked me.
I shrugged. "Us with hearts are able to fight back. I believe heartless shouldn't be a problem.... Heh... Us with hearts, huh? You know, I shouldn't be saying such things." I said holding my head down. "I wonder... Do people with hearts feel... I don't know... nothing? A certain emptyness and cold feeling in your body that leads to nothing? I don't feel, but I sense. I don't love, but I'm happy. Nothing's there. In my chest I mean." I looked at myself in the mirror and placed my right on it. "People with no hearts, might as well be dead. Because when they're dead... they are nobody. Am... Am I one? A nobody?" I turn towards Tris, with uncertain eyes.
I continued. "Something is missing... Something. A missing piece. I don't know what it is but I know it's there somewhere in the world. Probably even in other worlds. My missing piece... does it bring light? Because all I see is darkness."
