Yeah, but -- I mean, I don't know what you know either. We're not, like, super close, but I know a thing or two about him.

[Most of it is rather unpleasant, and not at all because Roxas himself deserved it. He tilts his cup of tea back and forth in his hands, trying to sort out how best to answer Riku before settling on, a little tentatively,] I know that he didn't have, um, a normal childhood. That wasn't really possible for him.

[Mostly because he didn't exist, not like that. Maybe that will be good enough?]