Backdated to the morning after Hitori Kakurenbo

[evokingfool]

Characters: Minato and open to all
Setting: 2-04 dorm room, hallway, and then media floor
Format: Action brackets. Can switch!
Summary: After Minato’s revival, he take a nap, get up and wander around.
Warnings: Mentions of death and events of Hitori Kakurenbo.

[It’s the second time he experienced sleep paralysis. Without resisting it, he lies there and waits. Mentally tired as well, he closes his eyes and drifts off into sleep.

After a while, he slowly opens them again and looks around. He can move now, so he sit up and rub an eye. A familiar, almost ordinary gesture, as if last night never happened. His gaze moves around until he spots the teddy bear and pause.

That’s not his Jack Frost toy, but a teddy bear, just like the ones in that game.

Frowning, he picks it up and studies it carefully. Will it try to kill him in his sleep? Or will it play safe? He read the note attached to it. Hm, he can’t read much implication from it, but he can guess.]

Does this mean I have to give you a name?

[Plainly said, before he places it down on his bedside table. It’s time for him get out of this room and simply walk.

From the hallway of the dormitories, he walks with his headphones on and his SEES armband around his left upper arm. The music’s beating into his ears as Minato walks, but always cautious and never let his guard down.

Even when he find himself in the media floor, checking the various entertainment there.]

Comments

[evokingfool]

...Do you want to walk with me? [He's just walking around, but he understand if Suzaku have places to go.]

[swordofzero]

[The last time they had went on a walk through the tower it had ended badly. But Suzaku shrugged, he thought he should probably stay away from people. He didn't bring any good with him, and he didn't want Minato to get hurt again.

But nor did he wish to insult him and so he nodded, and began to follow him.]

[evokingfool]

[As they walk, Minato's quiet. But having Suzaku for company is...comforting, in a way.

There are times when he want to be alone. But now is a time when he prefer being with another person.]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku is quiet as well, eyes on the ground glad that he is not totally alone and glad also that Minato is not forcing him into conversation.

He is prepared to listen though, if Minato wants to talk. After what happened Suzaku understands that people will have a lot on their mind]

[evokingfool]

[That would be true. There's a number of things on his mind, the only thing connecting them all are other people.

Are they okay?]

...In that game, how's everyone?

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku glanced at him and looked back at the floor.] As well as they can be... no one has disappeared that I know of... [He had heard of that happening, people not returning from such games and experiments.]

It will take a few days...

[evokingfool]

'Disappeared'? [While no one seems to have disappeared, the fact that Suzaku mentioned it at all is concerning.] Is it normal for people to disappear, other than from dying?

[swordofzero]

Yes. People just disappear without a trace, all their things go as well, even those that they have gifted to other people here.

[evokingfool]

And no one really knows where they went?

[swordofzero]

No... Sometimes they come back, and report having wandered their destroyed world. Others remember nothing of where they have been and some don't remember ever having been here in the first place.

[evokingfool]

...I'm more familiar with the last phenomenon, not the first two. [It's possible they went home to a non-destroyed world. But it's hopeful and idealistic, in the face of the apparent "fact" this Tower gave them.]

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku nodded] It is a strange phenomenon, it hasn't happened to me as far as I know. I only know of it second hand.

[evokingfool]

[Minato's quiet for a moment.] I've seen it before in another place. But I'm not sure if it's because of that place's rules or not.

[The Gods there have great powers, so it's such an easy excuse to use for explanations. Here? Might be something else.]

[swordofzero]

Another place? [Suzaku blinked, wondering.]

[evokingfool]

...Before the Tower, I was taken to another world.

[swordofzero]

Another world? So you were aware of other worlds before you came here...

[evokingfool]

That's right. To be honest, I thought the tower was another trick at first.

[swordofzero]

Another trick? Was the other world you were in similar to this tower?

[evokingfool]

...A little.

Do you know about Greek mythology?

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku shook his head] Very little, I have heard a few of the stories.

[evokingfool]

Then...what about the Underworld?

[swordofzero]

It is a place of the dead, correct?

[evokingfool]

That's right.

...That's the world I was in, before this tower.

[swordofzero]

[Blink...] You were in a world of the dead? Had you... Were you dead yourself?

[evokingfool]

I'm still alive when I was there.

[He did die once, though.]

Dead or alive, the gods bring whoever they want as their pawns.