Night 46: Main Hallway, 1-West

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Beatrix had walked this path to the Sun Room so many times, she could do it in complete darkness. Which was exactly what she was doing. Knowing the way, there was little need for light as it would only draw creatures and other unwanted attention. Silently counting her steps, at the right number, the assassin headed left and down the hallway.

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"We can try to go back and look if you want, but I'm afraid I probably wouldn't do much good," Meche admitted ruefully. She had the three-foot spear, but she was still holding it awkwardly, trying to keep it out of anyone's face. There were a lot of people who were better at fighting than she was; hopefully Alita or someone had already come along and punted that thing into next week. With luck, it'd just crawled back into whatever hole it had come from.

Yuna was relaxing now, so Meche moved back and tried to let some of the tension out of her body too. Maybe she should've done some stretches or something if they were going down into the basement.

"I'm not surprised you don't remember me. I think we only met the once, that day in town the..." She had to think back to when it was. "...week before last. Remember, we were looking at the horse with Senna?" Meche gave the girl a small smile and waved one hand (the one with the spear, oops) in an "it's nothing" gesture. "Well, it's really not important. I'm Meche."

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That wasn't good, was it? Yuna didn't feel comfortable involving people if they didn't want to. Still.... Yuna folded her hands around the light tube thing. This was indoors. Kagura and Ritsuka had told her that monsters came out at night, but it made her uneasy, not dealing with the fiend. YRP would occasionally flee from fiends, but usually in caves....

And, er. "...'Remember'?" Yuna looked up, aiming the light back up. "Um..." Oh, hi, spear. Yuna tilted her head at it while she puzzled over her memory. She'd been in several towns last week (although Luca probably only really counted as a "town"), and she'd met lots of people all over but she'd remember someone who spoke to her personally. Although...what was a "horse"?

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Yuna responded. The beam of her light jostled as Yuna reflexively tried to move her hands behind her back and stopped herself because, well, the light tube thing was in them. She awkwardly moved her hands back to where they were.

"Um, were you going somewhere, lady Meche?" Yuna had been, kinda, and there wasn't much of a reason to go out at night, was there? Especially with fiends running around. But with all the other pinpricks of light she could see, maybe a lot of people had reasons....

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Obviously she didn't remember at all. Meche tried to keep the unease out of her expression--Yuna's not remembering who she was was one thing, but it sounded as though she was even more lost than that.

Come to think of it, that had been the same day Meche had met Peter.

Something told her she knew what was going on here--Peter, Hitsugaya, and Yuna all fit the same pattern. But she didn't have time to dwell on it now. Yuna was right: she had a job to do, and she needed to get back to it. The flashlight was reflecting off a long swath of white that turned out on closer inspection to be Soma's hair, and next to her was a boy with spiky brown hair who must be the real Sora. Oh, no. Only a few minutes into the night and she was already holding everyone up.

"Yes, I was. I'm on an assignment for one of the clubs tonight," she replied. "Will you be okay by yourself now that you've got your breath back?"

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Yuna wanted to ask about this 'clubs' thing, but lady Meche was busy! And Yuna was still worried about that fiend. Not being able to do something was one thing, but. ...She'd worry about that if she got there.

"I will!" Yuna made herself grin. No reason to make people worry! "Lady Meche, um...good luck. With whatever you're doing." She wanted to add 'be careful', but...it sounded like Meche had been here longer, and anyplace that had fiends (and people carrying spears!) went without saying, didn't it?

She'd seek her out tomorrow. If there was a tomorrow in this place and Yuna wouldn't be whisked someplace else.... But she'd get there when she got there! "May we meet again?"

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"Thanks." Meche squared her shoulders and grinned back, hoping she didn't look as apprehensive as she really felt about this assignment. "Hopefully I won't need it, but believe me, I appreciate the thought."

She was just turning to go when Yuna spoke up again. "Oh, of course! I'm not exactly swamped with pressing things to do during the day, so I'd be happy to talk anytime." Meche glanced back toward Soma and Sora. "For now, though, I'd better get going. Take care, Yuna."

With a last, hopefully reassuring smile, she turned and started off towards her teammates for the night.

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