Night 72: Main Hallway, 1-Center

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Taura ran down the hall, looking for Rita. She wasn't there -- in fact, there was no one there. Maybe she wasn't running quite as late as she'd feared. Or there was something else going on, and she just hadn't been hit with it. Better to think it was just early.

She got out the radio, and looked at it -- she'd give it a few minutes, and then she'd call Rita. These were useful tools, but they weren't secure, and letting Landel know they were coming would be worse than waiting out here all night.

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[ninelivesonce]

"Did you hear from him today?" Taura had been monitoring the board, and keeping an eye out, but she'd slept more than she'd been awake, and she might have missed a reply.

"And do you think he knows how to work these radios?" Just because he'd been giving them out, didn't mean they could call him and ask. Besides, what would they ask? Are you still alive?

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Rita shook her head. "No. I was hoping you did." So neither of them had talked to Goku since last night. That wasn't a good sign. As for whether he'd know how to use the radios... Rita snorted. "I doubt it. He'd probably break it if he tried." Honestly, whoever entrusted those devices to him might as well have strapped them to a rampaging boar.

Well, it looked like they had a few minutes. After a pause, Rita supposed there was something else she could share with Taura. "I got another one of those anonymous notes," she said. "It said to look for the 'lovely lady' who lives on the third floor. I wonder if it means IRIS." Rita didn't know of any other 'ladies' they might find there.

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Then they couldn't stay here. Especially not if they were expected. "Nothing. Again. I wonder if whoever's sending them knows you and I are working together."

She peered down the hallway; her eyes were better than almost everyone else here, but they couldn't see something that wasn't there. "We should go," she said, but her voice turned up at the end, making it a question. "We could send him a message? Even if he doesn't know how to reply, he has ears."

She fiddled with the radio, finding the frequency of the one he'd been holding. Assuming he hadn't given that one away, too. She rattled off instructions like orders, and then looked up at Rita and shrugged. "Right? We can't wait all night when we don't even know if he's still here."

[overlimit]

"Huh, so you have his number." Rita was impressed that Taura had caught that. It was one of the farthest things from her mind at the time, as the very fact that Goku was alive had been a serious shock. Even now, she found herself entertaining the idea that it had been a hallucination, even if the radio in her own pocket was clear evidence that it couldn't have been.

"Let's just hope he didn't give that one away, too," she mumbled as she gently pushed the doors to the Sun Room open. In the end, she agreed with Taura about moving on. After checking for noise or movement and finding no sign of either, Rita opened the door wider and slipped into the room.

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