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23:30:00
Silent dormitory rooms are lined with bodies--not dead, just sleeping. Throughout the tower it is pitch black and silent. At the base of the tower, countless shining eyes, watching.

23:45:00
The tower hums to life. Lights blink on in one by one; only the dormitory rooms remain dark. A small army of blank-faced humanoids appear and spend the next ten minutes taking various positions around the tower.

23:59:00
An order given. The dormitory room lights blink on.

00:00:00
You are awake.

00:00:30
You can move.


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FLOOR TWO

[animusmods]

[vytis]

"Latvija? Lenkija? This--this really isn't funny!"

If Lithuania sounds more worried than usual--and he does--it's because he's on his way back up the tower. Only five floors, all of which he searched thoroughly except this one, which he'd glanced over and assumed no one would want to linger on. No sign of anyone from Poland-Lithuania, and his bias toward his partner and sister was becoming increasingly obvious.

He ignores the people in the infirmary who seem to be working there--at least after ascertaining that they're decidedly unhelpful in helping him--in favor of his search.

[pavomuticus]

After finding those notes, locating her personal belongings in that trunk, and going for a walk about the tower, Chaplin is no closer to answers than she was before she'd woken up. All she's learned is that the people working in this tower are extremely unhelpful, and she's somehow had her collar replaced with one of a different model. A little more fashionable, at least.

It's on the second floor that she finally spies another person, one who looks just as lost as she is. "You there," she calls out. "Do you know anything about this place?"

[vytis]

Lithuania startles a bit, though as soon as he registers 'not part of Poland-Lithuania' he keeps searching, although while answering the woman.

"I'm afraid not, I've only just woken up and it's fairly obvious the note is a lie. But it seems there are a few others in the same situation. I don't suppose you've seen anyone called Poland or Latvia? Poland has hair about as long as me, but it's blond, and green eyes, and Latvia has long blond hair usually in pigtails, though it might be out now, but she always looks a bit nervous."

[pavomuticus]

Chaplin stares just a little. Poland or Latvia? They either had very cruel parents, or very poor taste themselves. Either way, she hadn't met anyone aside from her roommate, so... "I've never met anyone with those names at all, let alone here."

Well, she'd answered a question, she might as well ask one. "I'm looking for my friends. A girl named Minatsuki with short hair, she might have shackles on her wrists, a man named Senji, with an eyepatch, an old man named Hitara?"

[vytis]

"I'm afraid not," Lithuania said, after a moment's pause. "I haven't met many people here, though, so they could be around somewhere."

And Latvia and Poland might be, too. Hopefully. Maybe. Please.

[pavomuticus]

"Oh, I hope so. And Ganta-kun and Shiro-chan too," she adds, partly to herself. If he doesn't know them, he doesn't know them.

"You can call me Chaplin Sukegawa," she informs him. "And you are?"

[vytis]

"If I meet anyone by those names, I'll tell them you're here," Lithuania offered. "I'm Lithuania. It's nice to meet you--well, the circumstances could be far better."

[pavomuticus]

"That's so sweet of you~!" What a nice guy. She could go on to tease him a little, but... well, even she had her limits. She'd wait until they were a bit more settled in, or until they'd found a way out. Whichever is first.

"You and your friends have rather peculiar names, don't you."

[vytis]

"Huh--Oh!" Well, it wasn't as if everyone had heard of the personified countries. Anyway, when he woke up a man flew out of his room. "That's because we are--Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. The places. Well, personifications of them?"

[pavomuticus]

Chaplin raised an eyebrow and stared. Cute, but not all there, it seemed. "Uh-huh. That's interesting."

[vytis]

Lithuania knew that look. "...You think I'm crazy, don't you?"

[pavomuticus]

"A little. But that's all right~," she added with a smile, "everyone is a little crazy where I'm from! Don't worry, I'll call you Lithuania if you'd like."

[vytis]

"I'm really not..." Lithuania looks rather put-out, not in an angry way, just in a 'this is going to all be really difficult' way. "If you prefer, you can call me Toris Laurinaitis. You'll find others here who will call themselves countries as well, because--we really are."

[pavomuticus]

"Toris? That's such a cute name," she replies. "I'll call you whichever you like! Oh, and your friends, too. It's really not a bother."

A childhood game that carried on for too long? Who knows? She's not one to judge.

[vytis]

"Whichever you prefer is fine," Lithuania said, deciding it wasn't really worth pressing the matter at the moment. "They do at least go by those names, though, so they should be easily enough noticed."

[pavomuticus]

"All right, then!" No problems there.

"I'm so sorry to run, but I'm still searching for my friends. If that's all right?"

[vytis]

"It's alright, I'm still doing the same as well," he said, smiling. "I'm sure we'll meet again, this place isn't particularly large."