Night 45: M-A Block Hallway

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Junpei found himself a spot not too far from the door leading out to the hallway. Seriously, if Yukari waned the damn Evoker, she needed to run her mini-skirted ass down here to get it since he wasn't going much farther. It was only fair since he'd trucked down to her block last night.

Setting the bag of stuff on the floor, he leaned against the wall after adjusting the Evoker in the waistband of his jeans. He was not happy with having lost the t-shirt he'd had last night, forced to wear the smiley one again, even if it was turned inside out. He sighed and looked down at the square bandage on his arm. Vampire. He'd been bitten by a vampire.

Just to make sure, the junior checked his teeth. No fangs. Good. He probably would have freaked out if he'd found any. Still... curiosity got the better of him and he peeled half the bandage off to look at the bite. Twin puncture wounds with some redness about them. He poked it.

"Ow." Poking it was not a good idea.

[Hey, Yuka-tan... got any garlic?]

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It was a good thing Yukari didn't have any solid plans for the night, otherwise this would have been one heck of a wrench thrown into them. But she didn't, and not only was this guy new, he didn't have any idea about where to go or what to do. Knowing this much, there was no way Yukari could say no; she didn't even know the guy, but so far he seemed normal and nice enough, and the last thing she wanted to do was leave someone completely defenseless and on their own.

"Alright," she answered, and she looked off to the side in thought. Something pointed? Yukari couldn't think of anything very close by that fit the description-- getting knives meant going upstairs, but she wasn't sure if he was willing to make that journey unarmed.

... Well, guess it was time for the bathrooms again.

"Want to try that one down there?" Yukari pointed further down the hallway with her flashlight, although the light hardly reached far enough to light up the doorway to the bathroom. "As long as you don't mind torturing your sense of smell, it should be simple enough to grab one. You can find something else better than it later."

A beat, before something came to mind. "Oh, right-- I'm Yukari, by the way."

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Though logic would state that people had plans and intentions, Luke wasn't aware of any of that. He had figured that no one could be here for that long, and that was the only reason why no one had broken out. After all, Asch alone could have an explanation, but if "most" of his friends were here, then there was a catch. Then again, maybe they knew he was here, too, and didn't want to leave without him.

As it was, he focused on her words about the bathroom rather than her name, an awkward laugh coming out. "Haha ... they smell that bad?" Really, they should smell bad, but he wondered how bad Asch smelled after getting his pipe. Thinking of his original grimacing in a situation like that was a little funny. But he figured a stinky bathroom wasn't half as bad as the extensive travel they took from Baticul throguh the abandoned factory. Now that place smelled horrible. "I can ... probably handle it," he affirmed, nose wrinkling in remembrance.

What was her name? It wasn't anything to do with things smelling bad, now that he escaped those immature thoughts. Right—Yukari, that was what she said. "It's nice to meet you, Yukari." To his credit, Luke managed to sound sincere and like he hadn't gotten caught up thinking about smelly bathrooms. "I'm Luke."

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"Well, they're usually fine." About as fine as a dark bathroom that may or may not have something creepy wanting to eat your face off in it can get, but Yukari wasn't about to voice that thought aloud. No need to freak out the new guy, after all. "One suggestion, though-- don't get thirsty at night. I don't know what the stuff in the sinks are, but it's definitely not water."

And here she thought she wouldn't have to deal with it again. There goes that luck, or maybe Luke would be willing to pull one off for himself. As long as she didn't have to touch the pipes, because pulling them off the wall would result in totally gross sludge spewing all over the floor-- an inevitable consequence, unfortunately-- then maybe she could put up with the offending smell. Hopefully.

"Yeah, nice to meet you, too." She nodded her head in the direction they needed to go in. "Let's hurry. If there's one thing you don't want to do, it's waste time."

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Well, that certainly sounded encouraging. "Yeah, I got it. Don't drink the water." Luke remembered his food and how his room was during the daytime, and he wondered how this place could change so much. "Is it all right to drink it any other time?" Maybe she would think it was a stupid question, but he couldn't help but be curious. Was the food bad? Was it a way to slowly brainwash them? Anything seemed possible—even to someone like Luke, who was a little short-minded when it came to even the most fantastic possibilities of the world.

That question produced, he glanced in the direction of where she pointed her flashlight and started toward it. She could answer it while they moved, right?

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"It's all normal during the day," Yukari answered; before she moved on she dipped her flashlight towards the ground to give off less light as she reached over her shoulder, slipping the Evoker into the pillowcase tied over it. Whether she was being discreet enough or not, Yukari didn't want Luke to notice what exactly she had been carrying in her hand-- the less questions about it the better. She really had to stop using the pillowcase like some bag, though, instead of what it was intended to be-- something in lieu for a quiver, although it couldn't be denied it was pretty convenient...

Oh, whatever, there were more important things for her mind to be drifting off about.

With a gesture to follow her, Yukari began walking in front of Luke. "This entire place just gets weird and creepy during the night."

When the door was reached, she cautiously pushed it open.

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