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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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"I met L'thuania." A slight shake of her head indicates that, no, other than that she has no new information for Estonia. Lithuania didn't know about anyone else, either...

Well, she also met two other people that were... just wrong. After meeting Denmark and Norway she was seriously worried that she would find a female Finland and male Estonia... Though finding them at all would, of course, have been a good thing.

She frowns a little bit more, as much in distress as in thought. Lithuania, but no one else of note. That was a problem. Coupled with that lingering, illogical fear that the note she'd read earlier was right and their home was destroyed... Estonia is glad Sweden's with her, if nothing else.

"Did he have anything worth listening to to say?"

She shakes her head, and then halts and thinks back to the brunet's words. "Did you get a note?"

"Yes. It was a lie." Estonia's voice doesn't falter as she says that, because she believes herself to be absolutely correct. There's no way her people are gone. She wouldn't be alive for the pain of it.

"...I can't feel anyone an'more."

"It hurts when they die in large numbers and it doesn't hurt, though. Just because we can't feel them doesn't mean they're not there."

"Th' aren't near." So much is sure, at least. She'd like to ask one of the nations that have been far, really far away from home if the connection thinned. England maybe. Though it would be a weird and awkward, and even potentially dangerous question. What if it sounds like weakness, what if it makes them more mortal than normally?

"That doesn't mean they're gone." She refuses to believe otherwise. At least, that's the front she'll give anyone who disusses it with her, Sweden included. It's as much to reassure the other woman as it is to convince herself that it's not possible.

"It just means we need to start working to get close to them again."

"Agreed." She nods and lets one hand fall down onto the hilt of her sword, looking over at the door. "D' you have weapons?"

Estonia shakes her head. "I don't, no. There was nothing really useful in my trunk, although I did check. Before you ask."

"W' will find something." She will not let Estonia run around in a strange place without any kind of weapon on her hands.

"That would be good, thank you."

She offers her girlfriend a hand. Just so neither of them gets lost, holding hands is the easiest way to ensure that. "Let's go."

Estonia closes and puts away the book she'd been looking through and slips her hand into Sweden's. She gives a nod, and then a reassuring squeeze to that hand, beucase she's pretty sure that's what Finland would do.

Sweden turns around at that, looks down at Estonia and squeezes her hand too, lightly, very careful to not hurt her territory, but trying to return the sentiment.

"We can do this," she says quietly, eyes unwaiveringly meeting Sweden's.

She nods. "Let's try to f'nd Fin."

Estonia gives a nod of her own, then gestures with their joined hands. "I haven't gone this way yet."

Sweden just nods in agreement, this really does not require words, and follows Estonia's gesture.

They walk for some time in silence, Estonia checking around her, before she pauses at a door. With a glance at Sweden, she's trying to see whether the other woman wants to go through first or not.

Sweden looks down the corridor and then down the other direction. Nobody seems to be around she lays one hand on the other nation's arm and pulls her back lightly, silently ordering her to stay where she is until Sweden tells her that it is okay to enter.

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