Night 57: Main Hallway, 1-East

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As far as Riku knew—which wasn't a reliable piece of information in the least—this was approaching new territory for him. It was the first time he tempted fate by going somewhere without one of his friends since he first woke up in this place. If it wasn't Sora or Kairi that was there with him, it was Naminé; to some degree, each one had been there for him on the various nights that passed. Before, it hadn't been a guarantee for success; maybe part of the concern was that there were too many feelings involved. When he worked before, cloaked with the blindfold that hid his worries and fears, he was weighed down by the need to do something for his friends, if not their actual presences.

It was a thought that he needed to stall immediately. That was agreeing with the Shadow, after all. Then again, that Shadow wouldn't have expected him to have gained one still unknown comrade for the night. His impression of this guy wasn't fully made up yet, but it was getting there fast. Even if he had a gun and he was young—which, for anyone else, might actually make them stall, but Riku had been promised heroic adventures at the age of five by a stranger with brown hair—he still had a head on his shoulder and an obviously distinct way of being.

Riku realized that as they grew closer to where this med wing was that if he was getting here with Sora or Kairi, he wouldn't be trying out the drugs for a change in his experience. Neither of them would let him, and his own guilt would be overridden by his sense to accomplish something. But they weren't here tonight. He had no way of knowing if they were even still in Landel's. Any plans he could make were based off maybes, so he had to focus on now.

He slowed considerably to glance down toward Albedo. The guy still had a question to answer, and it seemed wise to get that out of the way before they had these drugs in their systems.

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Izaya's steps continued to slow until he finally stopped, noting the girl's reaction with pleasure. He was sure he'd heard her give a squeak before she'd faced him, but now that he was able to get a better look at her, she didn't seem like someone who was particularly frightened—either by him or by what he'd suggested.

And then she'd tried to reassure him, and that piqued Izaya's curiosity. She was 'used to' monsters? What kind of place had she come from to be used to monsters—assuming, of course, that she meant the literal kind of monster and not the... figurative kind.

Izaya's lips curled to return the smile. "Ah, is that so?" he asked. While the question was little more than a pleasantry, it was one he wouldn't mind haven't an answer to, either, be it an explanation or merely confirmation. "Even so, I'd hate to leave a young girl all by herself at this time of night. You weren't waiting on someone, were you?"

If she was, he'd leave her alone... after a certain amount of observation first.

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"They took Rose," she said, a worried frown deepening. Without knowing where they'd gone, there was nothing Lily could do to help. "She's my roommate. They took her for some kind of mission." Despite only knowing the girl for twenty four hours, Lily grew attached quickly, and though she knew there were worse things that could have happened to Rose (the brainwashing they'd discussed, for example), she couldn't help being nervous for her friend. "So she's not here. I was going to go outside." There was something wistful in her tone now, as if the word 'outside' held a deeper meaning for her than it might for others.

As for the half-question about monsters, Lily shifted her weight anxiously and looked to the side, eyes unfocused. There was nothing to say: she saw monsters, she killed monsters, but she wasn't a monster...was she? And if she was, she didn't want this boy to know. She didn't want anyone to know.

"I'm okay," Lily reassured, giving another small smile. "You don't have to worry about me. But what about you?"

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When the girl said that her roommate had been taken, Izaya's first thought had been for experiments—only then the girl said it was for a mission. He hadn't heard anything like that before—perhaps it was a new codeword that he simply hadn't seen in use on the bulletin board? Or maybe it was something new, a piece of information that was only surfacing now for the first time? Either could be interesting, but he hoped for the latter.

But either way, he also didn't know where she might have been taken. There were all sorts of suggestions he could make about what her friend being taken meant for her, but... No; unless he was sure of what the 'mission' actually referred to, it wouldn't do to spread rumors about it. Yet.

"I'm not sure how to get outside from here, but I was just going to the medical wing," Izaya answered. Ah... Well, maybe one rumor would be fine. "You heard what was said on the intercom, right? Maybe your friend's mission has to do with the experiment in the infirmary."