Day 70: Crossroad's Bar and Casino (Afternoon)

[seekingmystrength]

His time in the bar had gone far more smoothly than the last after Kurogane had agreed to the immediate demand that, if he wanted to stay, he couldn't drink straight from the bottle this time. That had been the only reason he'd been forced out during the last trip, and that had been without the added bother of Fai making him angry. Now that his only worry was what might happen after the sun went down, the ninja hadn't given the man so much as a second thought once they'd split off of the buses. Fai knew where he could find him, so long as he'd been listening during that part, and Kurogane didn't care either way if he appeared or not.

All he really cared for was that he was able to drink without the possibility of any children coming around to bother him. He was pretty sure Tsubaki was too young to enter this place, and that she was the oldest of the kids he knew.

Still, he did keep glancing at the door on the chance that he would see someone he knew - welcome or not - as he drank. He was ever ready for the unexpected.

[free]

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[behind_my_smile]

Fai gave a little shrug, "Even toys can be useful. They might not work when we are really far away, but might between our rooms."

Fai lifted his up again and pointed to the button after turning it on. He had made sure to have the Lady explain to him how it worked since he certainly had never used one of these before and he figured Kurogane hadn't either.

"Push that button when you talk.." Fai lifted the box to his lips to show him, "And then you just talk into it and the other person hears you."

[seekingmystrength]

Kurogane followed the actions Fai's showed him, pushing the button with the device on the counter, then doing the same after raising it to his face. "And you think this is supposed to work?"

There was no sound from the blue item in Fai's hand, nor did the box Kurogane held feel like it was working. He remembered once when he'd seen someone taking a radio apart in the clinic and checked the toy for something similar. At the base he found the little latch and pulled a piece off, knowing the problem. "Batteries," he muttered. That's why these didn't work.

[behind_my_smile]

Fai pouted a little when it didn't work but then tilted his head curiously as he watched Kurogane dismantle the toy. "Batteries?" He turned his attention back to his own device and flipped open the trap as well.

"So it needs something else in order to work...I wonder if we have some back at the institute or if it is something we will have to get here."

Fai wasn't sure if he had what he needed in the room. Honestly he hadn't done much rummaging around in the meager belongings inside the mental hospital cell.