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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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It's a good thing someone in that room is calm.

Because from the moment she wakes up, Mary's heart is beating out of control, only she can't move. Oh God, why was this happening to her? Was she in Hell again? Did Shazam do something? Without moving, she couldn't even yell the magic words!

And then suddenly, she can move again. The instant her body allows her, Mary sits upright immediately, and whips her ~~hair~~ head back and forth to take in the unfamiliar sight.

Then she shrieks and falls over the edge of her bed, and onto the floor in a heap of blankets and sheets.

Oichi is still looking around as she wanders a bit away from her bed, curiously tilting her head this way and that way as she steps close to Mary. She sits on the ground and picks the blanket away from her face, and asks: "What is this place...? Ichi doesn't know..."

At least this girl didn't look too scary. And if she didn't know where she was either- Mary lets out a quick breath of relief, and starts pulling the blankets off of the rest of her body and shoving them back on the bed.

"G-Golly, I don't know either! I think... we've been kidnapped!"

She hums, thinking that over. "Ohh, how terrible... how scary..."

Oichi keeps herself seated on the ground, and sways a bit. As she speaks she's helped to her feet by what appears to be a smoky arm; the hand of it takes hers delicately and pulls her up. She isn't wary of Mary right now, even if she's a foreigner.

"The person responsible... ought to be put to death... yes, such a thing will happen... Ichi will make sure of it..."

The smoky arm is a little surprising, but Mary isn't terribly bothered by it now. It was certainly unique, but nothing stranger than wizard-blessed powers. It isn't until Oichi starts speaking about death that Mary starts to get a little flighty, and she starts to babble.

"Oh! No, I don't think that's necessary at all. I mean, yes, it is a very terrible thing, but maybe we could just... beat them up. Just an itty bit. And then they can let us go, and we won't have to kill anyone!"

The arm also helps to steady her, as she's pretty unstable on her feet. She tilts her head, and for a second nearly looks confused. But after that moment she's back to something more blank. She's silent for a few moments. "But why? A crook... is a crook... there is nothing more to him than that..."

"Oh! But there is!" Mary has to stop a moment to figure out what she's going to say, but once she gets going again, she has no problem with explaining.

"A crook is still a living being. They might have a family that they love, there might be people that depend on that person's life to get by. Besides. It's not our job to pass judgment." No. That was God's role.

A family... Oichi looks down, and says nothing for a moment.

"I have a brother," she finally replies, voice airy and trailing. "Family... such a lovely thing... the blood that ties one to another, how fragile..." The living part doesn't concern her much, but she's reminded of herself at the mention of family. So maybe the crook is like her.

Mercedes, a little late to the party, makes an attempt at sitting up. Her body isn't as exhausted as she expected it to be; it feels better than it has in ages actually. For the most party, she'd spent a good while accepting that she was alive.

She is not glad yet, and looks entirely fearful and confused right now with her eyes darting around the foreign room. "Is there a reason they would take us? I'm afraid I've never seen any of you before."

"Oh! They are! I have a brother too, his name is Billy, and he's just the--" Lucky for everyone in the room, she's distracted and shuts up when she sees Mercedes sit up.

"Good Morning! Maybe for a ransom?"

"Perhaps," Oichi says slowly, "they want to make us into their beautiful dolls... we will sit in their collection and gather dust forever..."

"Oh- good morning," she answers, starting to really wonder about who she was sharing the room with ~~if the hand thing wasn't enough of a warning~~. Pleasantries aren't so bad, but at a time like this...

Mercedes hadn't thought about ransom. It's possible, but then who? "Neither sounds like something I'd want a part of. Should we be trying to escape?"

Mary winces slightly at Oichi's suggestion. "I don't think that sounds very pleasant." She mutteres, before nodding in Mercedes direction.

"Of course! Why, that's exactly what I was about to suggest. Um- excuse me then" Then, Mary suddenly steps back, and jumps up on her bed as if she's about to do something spectacular. ...But what?

Oichi just tilts her head, watching the other woman carefully; she hasn't given Mercedes a good look over yet, so she hasn't quite noticed the fact that her wings are actually attached to her.

Mercedes could only guess by now that they were human, though she couldn't think of a Kingdom they could be from.

She tugs at the strange collar around her neck and waits patiently, in case something was supposed to be happening. Did she miss it? "Um."

Mary takes the time to position herself, standing straight up, one fist raised dramatically in the air, and then-- "Shazam!" With the magic words said, she's hit by what looks like lighting (but are actually only shiny visual effects) and in a flash, she's transformed into her white Marvel dress, cape and shiny gold boots. Then she literally flies off the bed.

"Now we can go look for a way out!"

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