damned_institute | Nightshift 38: F1-F10 Hallway

Though experimenting with playing cards wasn't exactly the hardest of bodily training, Ophelia did feel that the rigorous testing of her speed, accuracy and throwing power had sharpened her mind for the coming night, and she went out into the night confident that she would be able to handle herself much more gracefully than she had previously. It still irked her greatly that she was no longer able to face any challenge that came her way head on, but she realized now that if she was going to make any progress in attempting to get her power back and shove Martin Landel's balls up his own esophagus, she was going to have to turn down a few fun opportunities here and there.

Ophelia left her room with Kio's maps and a handful of pens in her pockets. She felt more than a little naked without anything else in hand, and she was reminded instantly that she missed not having her full night vision, but no matter. She had to get to the Sun Room quickly. There was no way she was going to get tied up again and miss the opportunity to get further into the basement. The fact that Landel had mentioned something about "down there" specifically in his intercom announcement only made Ophelia more eager.

The Claymore hurried down the hall as fast as she could while making sure she didn't bump into anything in the dark.

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Orihime nodded, pleased that Kurt would at least like to join them sometime. "What's his name? And what does he look like, if you don't mind me asking? If either of us see him, we can tell him you're looking."

She glanced at Ururu to make sure that it was ok to include her, though she didn't think the little girl would have any objections to helping out a friend it was only polite.

As for the three of them searching together... "Thank you, Kurt-san. It's just..." Orihime smiled a little sheepishly. "I don't know where that could be either. I don't think anyone does." She looked up suddenly and pushed her chair back so she could rummage in her drawer. "I have maps though! Maybe we can find somewhere that looks the most likely and go there. They might have done the same thing."

She brushed the pictures aside without looking at them and fished the copied maps out of her journal so she could lay them on the table for the other two.

Ururu nodded when Orihime looked at her; looking for people's friend was what they did. And it would be very good if they found one, since Ururu though that it might make everyone feel better. It was like winning a game, except this wasn't a game, and it was really important.

Ururu moved over to the desk when Orihime put her maps there, and pulled herself up so she could see. Instead of sitting on the surface, though, she just hung where she was by her hands. The girl was a little nervous, though. Reading wasn't the thing she was best at, and she didn't want to mess up. It would be hard though, especially since she didn't understand what a lot of the labels said.

"Um, excuse me?" Balancing herself on one hand, Ururu pointed to a box labeled 'Staff Recreational/Exercise Area.' "Do sticks need to exercise here?"

"Honestly I don't think he knows where that is either," Kurt said, laughing and nervously rubbing the back of his neck a little. "But maybe if we looked at a map, we could figure it out."

Although Kurt was pretty sure Kon wasn't going to win any intelligence tests, it was worth a try...

He looked over the map with Ururu, tilting his head lightly at the box she was pointing at.

"Sticks...?" Kurt said, frowning and not exactly getting what Ururu was trying to ask.

Well, that was actually a good thing, because it meant they only had to look in the obvious areas for Superboy - not that any of them really knew what an obvious area was.

Orihime looked down at the box Ururu had indicated. "I don't think I see any sticks there..." Though she supposed they had to exercise somewhere to get so thin.

"But that's what it says." Ururu didn't sound very confident, however. She knew that she was probably doing something wrong, since it looked like no one understood. She pointed to the box again, to the word in question. "A 'staff' is a stick, isn't it? Like what Kisuke-san keeps Benihime-san in. Or a magic wand."

Orihime-san would know what she meant, since she'd seen Kisuke-san's staff. She looked back and forth between the two, hoping that they understood this time.

"Oh!" Kurt laughed, understanding what Ururu meant. "No Ururu. 'Staff' also refers to the people who work here, not just a stick. This must be where the nurses and orderlies exercise," he explained.

He looked at the box in relation to where he thought they were. "Is there something there we should look for?"

It took her a moment puzzle over why Urahara was keeping someone in a stick. It wouldn't be very kind, but it wasn't that unusual for him to do something like tha-- oh. Right.

Orihime nodded at Kurt's explanation, returning to the present. "It might be a good place to look. Otherwise, I don't know." Her friends would usually shout for a while then go charging off somewhere and somehow find their way, but Orihime wasn't any good at that. Unless... "Kurt-san, do you know if Superboy-san saw a map at all? Do you think he would just go searching until he found the head doctor?"

"Oh." Ururu looked down, feeling kind of stupid once Kurt explained it to her. She didn't say anything else right away, instead letting Orihime and Kurt talk. She'd already messed up once, and she didn't want to do it again. Besides, Ururu was okay with going wherever they went. She was best at fighting, not at planning or picking directions.

Kurt put his hand on Ururu's head in a comforting motion, smiling. "It's okay. It's a tough word, especially if you know it in a different sense."

He thought for a moment, looking at the map. "No... I don't know if he saw one. I think he's been here one day longer than I have, so... maybe?" Kurt's face twisted down in thought and he placed one of his fingers on his chin. He could usually think so much better when he was upside-down, but he didn't want to freak Ururu and Orihime out too much tonight.

"Why don't we head to this exercise room and see what we find, hm?" he smiled down at Ururu. "Who knows? He may have gone to, uh... prepare for the big fight or something."

Unlikely, given Kon's extreme self-confidence, but who really knew?

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