[ Sora nods at the question, as he had a brief run-in with the spear. It had made him feel like his head was going to crack in two, and Riku had found him after that. He knows that time in dreams can't be properly traced, but it had been at some point after that when they'd run into Peggy. ]

Yeah, I tried to get it out too but didn't even get close. [ How had they managed it? Maybe working together, it had been easier to bear the pain that came from interacting with it.

So Markus and Fitz had essentially died. Even if it had only been within the dream, something like that could still send a person's heart deeper and deeper into sleep. Cain's situation sounds a little different. A little familiar, if not quite. ]

Hmm. When someone loses their heart, not in a dream but in the real world, the body they leave behind is called a Nobody. An empty husk, something that isn't supposed to exist. It's not the exact same, but maybe something like it.

[ He slowly reaches out to settle his hand on Cain's arm. No skin-to-skin contact, he wouldn't force that on Cain right now, but it is meant to be comforting. ]

I'm glad we were able to get you back.