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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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Romeo felt a little better that the adults in the room did not believe the note. He reached out to pick up the other note but it had so many words on it and he sighed. Before he had time to attempt to read one of the men starting complaining again, Romeo brought his hands to his neck and felt the collar there.

He pulled at it but it wouldn't come off. He took a shaking breath and tried to think of what Alfedo would do in this situation. He looked around the room, "Do you think there are others here?" He wondered allowed, because surely if you were going to save people from the end of the world you would save more than four.

"If the world had been destroyed, I can't imagine where this would be. Hm? Thing?"

Lloyd set the note back down and touched the collar around his own neck. He wouldn't try to pry it off, not yet. Certainly not with his bare hands. He moved on to examining the catsuit he'd been put in. "So we wake up with a new set of clothes and collars. Maybe it's a game."

He finally slid off of the bed. His first destination was to cross the room to what must be a door. The scientist doesn't open it immediately, instead putting an ear to it.

Let's see...

"Well maybe you guys aren't pulling hard enough." After all, who had more strength than him? He tested it lightly first, and when it didn't give way, tugged hard enough it looked like he might leave an indent on his neck for weeks. Finally his hand slipped free and he took the corner of his bed off, sending it flying across the room and bouncing sharply off a wall.

"F--man, that hurt!"

Kid in the room, he wasn't about to curse.

At the brilliant display of American strength and intelligence, Romano cradled his forehead in his hand and sighed. "Idiota."

When it was apparent that the letters and collars weren't going to be explained anytime soon, Romano stood from the bed, frowning at how the white catsuit hugged his body in all the wrong places. He grabbed the papers on his own nightstand, seeing the letter about the others had seen before and another two beside it. The former was useless to him, so he read the others instead.

One read about the basics of the tower. It mentioned things about where they were to sleep, where to find food, and something about a 'network'. He scoffed at it, as if he'd obey all these weird rules after being kidnapped and lied to. The other letter merely mentioned something about a job he was expected to perform. And like hell he was going to do what they told him to.

"I think this is all a load of bull." The papers were left on his bed, slightly crumbled, as he moved towards the door where the other man was. "I'm going to look around, maybe find the stronzo responsible for this." Hopefully the man would get the clue that he wanted past that door.

Romeo shrunk into himself a little more as one of the men managed to break the bed by trying to pull the collar off. His hands snaked to his neck and he started running his hands round the collar wondering if there was a catch or buckle that stopped them just pulling it off.

He bit his lip when the other man called the first man an idiot, he hoped they were not going to fight. This was scary enough without adults fighting. He took the other paper and sat on his bed reading slowly. He looked up at the door as the man went to leave, he wanted to see where they were as well but he wanted to finish reading first, so that he understood more.

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