Before things got worse, Roxas took the time to make a quick trip to the local library.

Of course, a trip nowadays was incomplete without a tag along ghost buddy to accompany him.

Early in the morning was his chosen time of arrival. This way he would have all day to search for what he was looking for.

More so, the opposite.

Roxas knew exactly what it was he would find, yet how he hoped he'd be smacked with something telling him of how wrong he was.

As the blond gave his library card to the librarian so he may scan it and sign out a whole back room out for use, Orion let out a yawn and stretched beside. He did his utmost best to be sure his pose ended with a fist racing towards the stiff individual. Contact wouldn't be made, however that didn't stop him from flinching.

With a smile, Roxas took back his card, making absolutely sure it slapped the side of the others head. "Thank you."

"Ow! What was that for!"

"Come now, that surely didn't hurt." Walking away towards the fiction section, Roxas let himself have one chuckle before turning his serious mode on.

His mission was to find each and every book with anything about ghosts written. Be it fairy tales. Fantasy novels. Mysteries. He was dead set on finding whatever he could about what he needed.

Everything that could possibly be the trigger that released a ghosts chains to the human world.

Once an armful was gathered up, he stumbled his way towards the room he had signed out for the day. Not before one fell off the stack to the floor. "Ori, could you grab me that?"

"Huh? Oh, yea." Nodding to himself, Orion floated down, pushing his concentration towards his fingertips. Flipping the novel to its front cover, he read it aloud. "My Ghost Roommate…? But why something like this?" What were the rest of his stash like?

Following along the path Roxas previously took, Orion set the book down beside the stack, grabbing another from the top. "100 Things You Must Know About Ghosts? I can barely name 10!" His gaze slid over towards where his partner was now buried nose deep in another book.

"Roxas, is there a reason why you're doing all this?" It seemed it hadn't yet hit the ghost himself what was happening. Or perhaps, he didn't even know it was a hurdle he need jump over at some point.

The man in question bit his lip, holding back his thoughts. Doing so only brought pain to his lungs with the constriction of air flow, but this he pushed away. He wouldn't alarm Orion. At least not until he knew more.

"Yes."

"Okay." That was all Orion needed. He knew better than to push it. Instead, he hoisted the first book he had grabbed into his hands, laid down on the table bench and started reading. Might as well if they would be here a while.

Two hours into this ordeal, Orion had already fallen asleep, leaving the open book in his place. At first it startled Roxas, but the flickering between seemed to settle after a while.

"This book depicts the chain cutting off with the final piece of the wish being granted...that doesn't exactly help me.." Shoving one graphic novel aside, the desperate male replaced it with another. "This one just says the same thing! Really? Out of all of these, none of them has a romance tying them here for me to use as a starting point?"

This was starting to feel like a waste of time.

Time continued to drag on until the afternoon. Roxas was down to the second to last book in the entire library. Nothing so far was helping. Everything was a comedy. Some sort of drama. Everything but what he needed.

Flipping to the final page of the literature held in his hands, he let out a scream of frustration and flung the book towards the wall. A second after he panicked, peeking over the table, checking to see if he had awoken his sleeping companion.

A rather loud snore was his answer.

Breathing out a sigh of relief entwined with a soft chuckle, Roxas lowered back down on the bench. "One last book. Maybe this one will have something?"

Thankfully for him, luck finally struck in the form of a cheesy ghost romance novel. It would have to do.

These past few weeks meant the world and more to me. She, meant everything to me. But how do I express this if I cannot kiss her? A simple kiss...who knew something so small could be enough to break my chains. At least, so I've been told by that reaper. 'True loves kiss shall break your spell'...It isn't fair.

Reading over the passage once more, Roxas brought his fingers to his chin, letting his mind fully absorb this. It made complete sense. The start of Orion's deteriorating form must have been when Albel and he confessed their love for one another. Then, if ever they properly kissed…

His fist clenched as he shook his head. No. He would not let that happen.

At least he would prolong it however he could.