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[verismo]

Who: Kyousuke Kamijou and The Tower of Despair
What: No one said that he'd still have his sanity after spending time in a ruined wasteland.
Where: All over the Stairs.
When: Whenever
Warning: Muteness, Insanity and other boatload of issues caused by a long alone time.

[He had not been expecting to be pulled back into the tower a few... months? Weeks? Days? of the time he spent in that ruined wasteland. Therefore, when the sleep paralysis subsided, the only thing he could notice apart from Ruana's voice in the intercom was the fact that he's now hungry again, and that things are sort of back to normal with his body.

It didn't take him long to reach the cafeteria, whereupon he had his oatmeal wordlessly, and even less time for him to actually get going to the stairs.

Which would be where you find him, always wandering around the different floors, and yet never stepping outside the boundary the stairs have.

In fact, you might probably mistake him for a ghost or something.]

Comments

[verismo]

...?

[The boy didn't respond verbally, although he did turn to look at the red-haired girl that's currently approaching him with a look that's familiar to that of a clueless guy.]

[prayed]

[She frowns a little at the lack of verbal acknowledgement, but immediately dismisses it. Instead she stops in front of him, sipping on her milkshake and giving him a quick look-over. Not that she needs to worry about a guy like this.]

So, you must be Kyousuke. [A moment passes before she clarifies,] Sayaka told me about you.

[verismo]

...!

[There's a small sound of recognition, but considering how talking is pretty much impossible for him right now for reasons he can't really fathom, all that came out is a small grunt.

...

Well, better start writing in a piece of paper and showing it to her.]

"You know her?"

[prayed]

Yeah. We're--[There's a slight delay. Just a few seconds, but enough to give a break to her speech. After all this time, she still hasn't quite found the right word for what Sayaka is to her.]--friends, I guess. Or something like that, anyway.

[verismo]

[There's a blank face for a second as he writes on another piece of paper, before he handed it over to her]

"Ah, thank you for taking care of her. She can be really, er, slow, at times."

[prayed]

[She chuckles as she reads what's written on the paper.]

'Slow' isn't the word for what she is. [She shakes her head. Not like she's any better.] So, what's with the silent treatment? Cat got your tongue?

[verismo]

"You can say that."

[having not used his vocal cords for a long while, his voice was hoarse enough that talking was not viable at this point of time.]

[prayed]

[She considers pushing the matter further, but quickly decides against it.]

So, how long you been hanging around here for?

[She'll leave it to him whether she's referring to this particular floor or the tower as a whole.]

[verismo]

"A few days."

[And not much else, considering he's not really sure how much of a time he did spent on his last stay.]

[prayed]

Few days, huh.

[A beat.]

Sayaka know you're here yet?

[verismo]

"Not yet, to be honest."

[He doesn't know what to say to her anyways, so at the very least he's keeping himself scarce for the moment.]