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Characters: Dawn Summers and OPEN
Setting: Dormitory floors, later cafeteria
Format: Starts prose but will match
Summary: Dawn's just woken up and she's not taking this well.
Warnings: None yet

The first indication of this new arrival in the tower is a loud, high pitched scream as Dawn finds the initial sleep paralysis wearing off and falls out of her bed, having been mentally struggling uselessly against whatever had been holding her but suddenly no longer is.

She picks herself up, gazing around the unfamiliar room before her eyes fall on the letter. She takes one look at it and runs from the room, not caring that she's still in the white bodysuit she woke up in and not noticing the trunk at the foot of her bed.

Around the dormitories, therefore, there is a teenage girl running around calling out a single name: Buffy. Finding her now means finding her in a frantic, panicked state because she has no idea what's going on right now.

Later, however, you might find her in the cafeteria, dressed in her own clothes now and sullenly poking at a bowl of oatmeal.

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Well, that sound can't be good. Once Eiji hears the scream, he's hoofing it down the hall as fast as he can muster, skidding to a stop once the girl is out in the hall. He raises his hands, and tries to look as non-threatening as he can. "Hey, hey - calm down!"

Dawn skids to a stop, eyes wide as she sees the stranger in front of her. There are so many things she wants to ask, so many things she knows she should figure out but there's only one question that she seems to be able to focus on now.

"Have you seen my sister?"

"I... might have," he answers, though the look of awkward apprehension he has in saying it obvious. He wants to be hopeful, but hope always has that chance of not panning out.

"I don't know anyone named Buffy, but there's a lot of people here that I don't know very well, so..." A pause. "Assuming that your sister is the person you were just calling out for, that is."

She nods, making no effort to disguise that she's very plainly scanning the corridors all around them, just in case.

"She has to be here. She can't not be, that wouldn't make sense. It wouldn't be fair."

Eiji swallows, then draws a heavy breath, knowing that more than likely, things are going to be very unfair. However, he'll try to remain optimistic. There's a lot of other people here that have their close friends, or even family. And he has Ankh and the Detective here, so...

"Well, we won't know until we look." He holds a hand out, giving her a small smile. "I'm Eiji."

She glances at the hand but is too anxious to do anything about it; instead she paces a little once more.

"Dawn. So...so where do we start?"

Should've expected that one. Eiji pulls his hand back once it's clear that Dawn has no intentions of shaking it. "Well, there's a few common meeting areas on different floors. I would say we make our way downstairs to them, check them, ask the people there if they know your sister. Maybe leave a message on the network once we get to the library that you're looking for her, and go on down to the cafeteria."

"So what, is this some sort of school?"

Those had libraries and cafeterias, and at the moment that's enough for it to be a logical conclusion.

"If it is, I haven't seen any classrooms. Far as I can tell, it's just some strange tower that some strange people have brought us to, under the claim of saving us," he answers with a small frown.

"Oh."

She's quiet a moment, just taking that in. She's curious and worried and freaking out, so her next question is perhaps not the most logical next question.

"How big? The tower, I mean, how big is it?"

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