[She's not very wrong on what Ven's doing: "scanning" is certainly one term for it, and he's never been told if there's an "official" name or not. What he's doing is falling into a light meditative trance, blocking out his normal physical senses and opening up his mind and his heart to investigate the levels of Light and Darkness around them. Despite having a heart of pure light, he's not the best at this among the Keybearers, mostly because Eraqus never gave him full and proper training in this skill, only teaching him the basics and that only a few times. (Whether that's because everything started happening before he was at the skill level he needed to be to learn it properly or because Eraqus was afraid him knowing how to read the area would trigger something in him or draw attention to him somehow, he's never asked.) But since his awakening, he's gotten a lot more practice at it, since he realized how valuable a skill it is in his own travels, and he's certainly good enough to do a scan of an unpopulated tower. He's taken aback briefly by the realization that Rise shows up on on his radar as a bright light - not as bright as him or Kairi, but similar to Aqua, or Sora. It's something he tucks away to deal with later as he lets his awareness sweep out around them, picking out and classifying every mote of Darkness he finds to make sure it's something more or less natural. Every world, almost every person has some Darkness, after all - it only gets bad when it becomes out of balance, and those bits are what he's trying to discover. He's unaware of her speaking at the moment, locked in tight so nothing disturbs him.]
[Chirithy, on the other hand, can hear every word she says, and its reaction is probably anything but reassuring as it jumps, spinning, cape flaring out behind it as it looks all around them, little arms wagging to try and keep its balance.]
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[Chirithy, on the other hand, can hear every word she says, and its reaction is probably anything but reassuring as it jumps, spinning, cape flaring out behind it as it looks all around them, little arms wagging to try and keep its balance.]
Shadows?! Where? Where?!