Where was he going? When he ran away all the times before, he had just headed blindly out into the Institute. Back home, he'd always zeroed in on the park. Here, he realized, he lacked such a safe haven and now he really didn't know where he had been heading.

"...I guess Soubi's room," Ritsuka said, still toeing the ground. "If that moron hasn't come to get me already, I should probably go see what's keeping him."