cross your fingers, hold your toes. we're all gonna die when the building blows.

[uzuki]

Characters: Shion & YOU~
Setting: You can catch her passing through the dorm floors, the libraries, the media room, or her moping on floor 12.
Format: Take your pick.
Summary: Shion is a mess, surprise.
Warnings: None yet.


After the elevator incident, Shion hadn't exactly been sure what to do. She didn't know how she felt about knowing how the tower worked. On one hand, it was disgusting and it was unnatural. Jason and the rest were keeping them all in the dark and as prisoners. On the other hand... They were immortal. What difference did it make what body you had, as long as you were the same person on the inside? Your soul... Your essence. That's what she had told Allen, right?

And Allen brought another issue. She wanted to see him, more than anything. But she didn't want to worry him. Sure, he was used to her recklessness, but especially after the KOS-MOS incident, she had been trying to lie low. For Allen's sake, more than her own. It might have seemed otherwise most of the time, but she didn't want him to worry about her. So she tried to calm down, or collect her thoughts. But it just wasn't happening. The more she tried to wade through the mess in her mind, the more conflicted and alone she felt.

In the end, she gave up on false pretenses, and started off for Allen's hideouts. The meadow, libraries, the media room... Eventually she ended up on the twelfth floor, quietly staring into the stars as they blinked out of existence.

Comments

[uzuki]

She didn't meet his gaze again. For some reason she felt the smallest twinge of guilt. It was true, she understood that his actions had always been necessary... But she still didn't like him. Nor did she want his help. But she did know she might not have a choice in that matter.

"So what you're saying... Is that you have something you want me to do. Is that correct?"

After all, she couldn't imagine another reason for him to suggest that she needed his help.

[oforder]

"No. If I required something of you, I would not be this direct." Probably not the answer she was looking for, but it was true. And it was likely something she already knew, anyway.

"What I do require, however, is that you do not lose what you gained from our universe." He knew she knew what he was referring to. "Beyond that, I ask that you tell me everything you learn about the remaining Administrators. The Compass cannot read them. I believe they exist outside of the collective subconscious."

[uzuki]

"Well..." She'd just gloss over the part about the pendant for now. Since it was likely that Allen would hear their conversation.

"I'm afraid I don't know that much about them, really. When a few of us went into that elevator that's usually not accessible, we ended up in Jason's offices I guess. He has a lot of medical equipment, and seems to perform a lot of grotesque experiments. He also has video access to almost every inch of the tower."

Honestly, she didn't mind helping Wilhelm when it came to the administrators. She could at least trust him not to doom her, and her friends, as long as it didn't suit his ends. Jason however...

"He seems to be in charge of those retrieval units with the red collars. Or he performs their maintenance. But that's all I know, so far."

[oforder]

"That is quite alright," Wilhelm answered. "I have others who do." Shion wasn't the only piece on the board, after all. She's just not a pawn. "I am aware of Jason's profession. It would not surprise me to learn that he does even more than what we are aware of."

He remembers the retrieval units, yes. He met them after the riot. They looked completely braindead. "It would be unlikely to turn them against their masters. They are likely under a form of mind control we are unfamiliar with."

[uzuki]

"Well, there was one interesting thing about them that we discovered there. They were all released when we accidentally set off an alarm, and it seemed that most of them were unable to access the full extent of their power. If they touch your collar, it instantly deprives you of Ether capabilities, so it might be worth noting that without their proper maintenance, they can be handled more easily."

[oforder]

"Do you know what usually triggers this alarm?"