Edgeworth took a deep breath and blew it out slowly, composing himself enough to begin. He kept his voice low; while he was fairly sure that the crowd noise would keep any potential eavesdroppers away, he wanted to be sure.
"You hadn't been here more than a day or two when I arrived - long enough to find out the basics of the place and see a bit of them, but that's about it. I woke up here towards the end of the night. We didn't meet till the next morning.
Our positions were just about reversed from what they were when you appeared the second time. As you know, I was brought here directly after the Skye case, but you were from about two months after. You said you had spent a good portion of those two months looking for me, because of that note I left behind."
He reached for a napkin, twisting it nervously in his hands as he continued. "That night, I was taken for that experiment. They were in the habit of announcing who had been taken over the intercom. That's how you knew I'd been taken. This was before maps were so easily available, so you found a couple of people who had been to the second floor, where the experiment rooms are, and had them take you there. Your group wasn't the only one with the same idea. There were a lot of people up there, which turned out to be a good thing. A large monster attacked the group."
"The trained fighters out of the group insisted that you get me out of there. You agreed, and since your room was closer to the stairs than mine was, that's where we went. You got me back there, we talked for a bit, and well, it's when I kissed you for the first time. We talked about it the next day, as awkward as it was, and well..."
Edgeworth swallowed hard, feeling the blush that had only just begun to fade regain its intensity. "Time in the Institute is funny, and it affects everything. It has a way of speeding things up at times. We...well. We escalated things perhaps more quickly than we would have otherwise. That next night, in fact."
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"You hadn't been here more than a day or two when I arrived - long enough to find out the basics of the place and see a bit of them, but that's about it. I woke up here towards the end of the night. We didn't meet till the next morning.
Our positions were just about reversed from what they were when you appeared the second time. As you know, I was brought here directly after the Skye case, but you were from about two months after. You said you had spent a good portion of those two months looking for me, because of that note I left behind."
He reached for a napkin, twisting it nervously in his hands as he continued. "That night, I was taken for that experiment. They were in the habit of announcing who had been taken over the intercom. That's how you knew I'd been taken. This was before maps were so easily available, so you found a couple of people who had been to the second floor, where the experiment rooms are, and had them take you there. Your group wasn't the only one with the same idea. There were a lot of people up there, which turned out to be a good thing. A large monster attacked the group."
"The trained fighters out of the group insisted that you get me out of there. You agreed, and since your room was closer to the stairs than mine was, that's where we went. You got me back there, we talked for a bit, and well, it's when I kissed you for the first time. We talked about it the next day, as awkward as it was, and well..."
Edgeworth swallowed hard, feeling the blush that had only just begun to fade regain its intensity. "Time in the Institute is funny, and it affects everything. It has a way of speeding things up at times. We...well. We escalated things perhaps more quickly than we would have otherwise. That next night, in fact."