"You want to do whatever you can..."

[nohardfeelings]

Characters: Seiko Shinohara and anyone. Just anyone.
Setting: Starting out in her dorm room and after that, anywhere, everywhere.
Format: Prose, though I'm pretty flexible so I'll roll with either.
Summary: Seiko arrives in a place that isn't filled with death and terror! Clearly the smart move is to explore!
Warnings: Probably a little bit a lot of screaming and a bit of a spoiler/trigger warning in beginning exposition. Also, Seiko.

Seiko screams the second the paralysis falls away, when she realized that this wasn't the bathroom stall and there wasn't a crushing veil around her neck. She reached for her neck with her still-numb arms, coughing and hacking all the way. Unfortunately this causes Seiko to edge off of the side of the bed, and she falls to the floor with a loud thump.

The pain she feels when she hits the floor is almost surreal, so alien that it seems fake. She wheezes loudly. What bothers her most the fact that she can't move her limbs, though she is in no position to be thinking so extensively. Feeling slowly begins to enter her body, sending shivers coursing throughout. Finally she can speak.

"Naomi?!" She flops on the floor. "Nao-"

Seiko suddenly flies into a coughing fit. She curls up into a ball on the floor, her hands clawing at her neck. It's so hard to breathe. The coughing just continues, with Seiko could find some purchase. Eventually air invades her lungs and she manages to stop, but her eyes stay inhumanly wide. Her movements are still spastic, her eyes darting in all directions.

Her usual bright, cheery demeanor is nowhere to be seen, replaced with one mixed with confusion and shock. But that's only to be expected from someone plucked so suddenly out of their personal hell. It'll take her a while for her to compose herself.




No. Actually she bounces back pretty quickly.

It isn't long until she starts bopping around in her school uniform. She wanders the dormitory floors just to snoop around. She won't mind it if anyone comes to bother her, but she's pretty busy peeking around corners. And into Closets. Pantries. Other people's rooms. If anyone is been unlucky enough to have left their doors open. Welp.

She isn't being a creeper though! After all that letter said that she was going to be staying here (the nice one, not the mean one that felt like a knife to the chest) so it was perfectly understandable for her to find her way around And how will Seiko know how to get around if she doesn't explore?

This is not just an excuse for her to bump her nose into places she has no business being in. Pfft. Where would you get that idea from? 

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[nohardfeelings]

[ Seiko sways on her side, placing a hand on her hip. ]

Mhm, yep! It was the first thing I saw when I woke up and -

[ Her smile disappears suddenly. Seiko darts her eyes away from Kyoko, down to the floor. ]

I... I don't think they were that useless. They certainly told me a great deal, nothing I couldn't hear from anyone else but--

[ Seiko looks back. She smiles, or at least forces a very good one. She hates to be such a downer! ]

But it's better to just move on, right? No reason to worry about a buncha dumb letters. [ She sticks her tongue out. ] But this place - tower - it's super big! We're on the top floor and everything, aren't we?

[prayed]

[Kyoko considers pushing that point, but decides against it. This girl, like everyone else, ill either believe her world or gone or she won't. There's not much she can say to change her mind. Instead, she briefly extends her hand, gesturing for Seiko to come closer. She bites off a chunk of pocky.]

I've lost count of how many floors this joint has, though this is about the only one worth seeing. [A few seconds of thought and she adds,] Well, I guess a couple of them might be worth visiting, but getting to them's a serious pain, y'know.

Whoops, sorry. I honestly thought I replied to this earlier. ; w;

[nohardfeelings]

[ Seiko doesn't show any hesitation, though she does take a quick peek to see who else was inside. Seeing that it was just Kyoko and her, she took the invitation to sit right next to Kyoko by the foot of the bed. ]

Are there that many? Which one are we on? [ She looks at Kyoko curiously, cocking her head. ] Wait. A serious pain? Isn't there an elevator you can just take?

That's okay! ♥

[prayed]

It makes Rapunzel's tower look like a playhouse and we're stationed at the very top of it. [She takes another bite of pocky, glancing at Seiko sitting by her bed. She's not used to having company like this, rarely even noticing her roommates. She won't complain, though.] There's an elevator, but it's completely useless, y'know.

[nohardfeelings]

[ If Kyoko thought this was odd, she hasn't seen anything yet. This is Seiko being tame. Seiko listens to Kyoko intently, and she shows her understanding in the best way possible - a long, drawn out "Ooooooh." ]

Neh, and I suppose we don't have any girls with really long hair! [ She taps her chin. ] But how can an elevator be useless? Is it broken? That sucks!

[prayed]

Tch. If it were broken nobody here'd get to eat, y'know.

[She takes another bite out of her pocky stick meaningfully. How this girl can be so peppy Kyoko does not know.]

It only stops once every twenty floors or whatever, so it's still a pain to get to whatever floor you're aiming for.

[nohardfeelings]

[ Well, seeing as how Kyoko hasn't been starving, Seiko can assume that the elavator must work. Yet - ]

Every twenty floors? Are there stairs?

[ Seiko makes a face. She doesn't seem to like that prospect. ]

Someone should check that out! It sounds very inconvenient!

[prayed]

Sure, there's a staircase, but who wants to do that much walking for such a small reward? Course, the people in charge of this joint only exist to make things more difficult.

[She closes one, her annoyance towards this place only becoming more obvious as she continues.]

They can't even be bothered with showing their faces, y'know. Probably cause they know somebody'd send 'em flying if they did.