Night 72: Main Hallway, 2-West

[repelling]

[ from here ]

Still holding the door, Uryuu peered through the dark, looking along the hallway. Nothing worth noticing, not yet, though he kept his voice low when he spoke next.

"Twenty days, is that right? Since we first spoke in the Game Room." Uryuu knew the number to be technically correct, yet his mind struggled with it. The confusion of time from his own taken experience had mostly cleared these past few days, memories settling into place, or into the places he could only assume were correct. Awkward angles, the conviction of ill-fitting puzzle pieces, though the picture looked whole. Before that, however, had been his lost time at the institute.

Twenty days. Uryuu shook his head, and waited to follow Sora-kun's lead.

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[lighthearted]

Sora wondered if it was better off that way, for people to leave here before they ended up being dragged to the second floor to be poked and prodded. It had to be better, because no one should have to go through that, but he also knew that they hadn't gone home. Those friends of Ishida's were brainwashed now, living out a fake life.

Neither option was really good, was it? Sora didn't know if there was a right answer to that, either, but he hoped that soon they'd reach a point where they could stop all of this.

He glanced over as they reached the top of the stairs and Ishida asked his question. Twenty days...? "Uhh, I wasn't keeping track, but that sounds about right, yeah." It had been a while, that was for sure. "Why do you ask?"

Though Sora didn't let his question stop him from moving into the hallway that would allow them to reach the area with the experimentation rooms.

[To here.]