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screwthegods ([personal profile] screwthegods) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2008-07-30 09:03 am

Day 34: Breakfast

[starting off in M13]

The last part of the night was little more than a blur in Homura's mind. The men had rushed in, but not joined them, instead staying off to themselves. Before any of them had a chance to react, however, a voice sounded through the air, mocking some other person Homura had never heard of, and the patients themselves.

To Homura, whoever that man was, he sounded a great deal like a god.

But before he could ask questions, the demi-god found himself no longer in the chapel, but some strange room on a bed. Is that what Kenren had meant from his earlier warning? Homura sat up, glad at least that the world didn't spin when he did so. Then the same man from before began to speak again, with a completely different tone. It was confusing to hear him talk that way, calling them patients instead of prisoners as he had before. Homura listened quietly as the announcement was made, then got out of bed.

Maybe he wouldn't have to go anywhere yet. It wasn't like Homura knew where to go anyway, and that meant he had time. If this was his room, and if he had been here as long as Kenren had said, there was a chance he could find something with answers. The Taisho had even told him that Homura had seen Rinrei. Certainly he would've written something down, made a map, something that could let him find her again! He started with the desk at the end of his bed, first finding a small stack of notebooks. Picking up the first, he flipped through, turning the pages with quickening desperation as he found each one to be blank.

[identity profile] not-rly-fai.livejournal.com 2008-08-01 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe some of it was this place, but Yuuhi couldn't deny the fact that he'd met with Ashura. It wasn't just some copy or some look-a-like. It was him and nothing was going to convince him otherwise. What he was going to do about it though... that was anyone's guess. As nice as it would have been to accept the reality that this place offered, so long as he had a link back to the real world, Kurogane, he just couldn't completely forget. And for the first time, perhaps, he realized that maybe there were some things he didn't want to forget.

"I'm not sure what to say," he replied. It was sincere and honest, even if it didn't reveal much. Kurogane was right, there were an awful lot of things he was unsure of, but he didn't know how he was supposed to decide.

[identity profile] contentincloset.livejournal.com 2008-08-01 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Kurogane heaved an exasperated sigh, one that probably wouldn't be his last for how this morning was going, "I shouldn't have to deal with this so early..." He then reached over and picked a sausage off of the tray. That was still his breakfast Fai was eating, willingly passed over though it may have been, so he could still have what he wanted. Fai could have all the sugary crap; stuff like that wasn't supposed to be for breakfast anyway.

"You can say where that file is since it's obvious you haven't gotten rid of it," he ordered suggested, "Already know you read it, so there's no changing that. Just don't keep it. Burn it, or something."

Kurogane hadn't ever cared what might've been in something like that. "Real lives" or whatever the people in white said. This wasn't a world either of them were from, so it didn't concern them even if things had been made to reflect them somehow. Someone was only messing with them. If those files had any use it was to say who was or wasn't there anymore like with the Princess.

[identity profile] not-rly-fai.livejournal.com 2008-08-03 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yuuhi tried to appear hesitant, though he was secretly glad that Kurogane's request coincided with his own desires for once. If he seemed over-eager, Kurogane would probably just become even more suspicious.

He looked guiltily down at his tray, but didn't answer the first question. The location of the file. It was in his waistband at the moment, as he waited for the best time to dispose of it. Unfortunately, that time had never come. A day had already come and gone. "I'll get rid of it," he said in a quiet voice, not daring to look up.

[identity profile] contentincloset.livejournal.com 2008-08-03 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Straight compliance had not been what Kurogane had expected, because although the magician had been good up until this point, he couldn't possibly have been dazed enough to simply give in to that demand. Not after how he'd defended that damn file up until now. If he hadn't been telling the truth, Kurogane wouldn't have any reason for suspicion the moment Fai agreed, but the problem stood that Kurogane had heard no falseness in the statement. That meant he hadn't been lying, and Fai telling the truth was the most suspicious thing of all.

"Whatever's in there scared you that bad, huh?" he said first, then after considering modified his belief, "Or is it that you just don't want any one else seeing it?"