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Characters: Fayt Leingod and whoever runs across him.
Setting: Dormitory room 2-08 and various first block floors.
Format: Action. I’m also willing to follow along prose if you prefer that.
Summary: Fayt arrives in the tower.
Warnings: He's not exactly going to be very happy about this.

Room 2-08 and dormitory levels
[To be waking up in a strange room, in a strange place, wasn’t exactly the outcome Fayt had expected after everything that had happened recently. Not that he even knew what he expected to happen after they couldn't stop that program, but this didn't feel like it at all.

The first letter, when he opens it, is like a punch in the gut. The message was short and simple, almost horribly cheerful, for the information it contained. Fayt didn't want to believe it. There had to be another explanation, because he was sure the last thing he remembered hadn't been completely emptiness.

So of course, the first thing he does after reading through both letters is to change out of the awkwardly tight outfit he'd woken up in into something more familiar from the trunk at the foot of his bed and try to find someone who knows more than he does. He'll be wandering the halls of the dormitory, seeking out anyone he comes across for answers. Maybe he could find whoever was sharing that room with him... the other sections of the room did look occupied.]

Floor three library
[After spending some time on the dormitory level, Fayt takes to exploring the tower, taking the long elevator ride to the bottom. He’ll be lingering in the library on floor 3 the longest, hoping to find some more information. Fayt will be browsing determinedly through the shelves trying to find something on this place, but he’s failing, much to his frustration. Some of the books do seem interesting, though, and he can occasionally be found picking his way through the shelves, a pair of reading glasses perched on his face as he glances over random books.]

Cafeteria
[A while later he makes his way to the cafeteria to get a bite to eat, but he’s hesitant about the oatmeal. Why the insistence on eating that first? It seemed pretty odd, really. Fayt’s going to be deliberating on that for a bit before he decides what to do. Someone should probably stop him before he does something he’ll regret.]

Floor four
[He makes his way to floor four after that, and he takes in the view of the world outside the windows for a while, glancing out over the clouds and hoping to see something besides the obscured view. It was a roomy lounge, but he really would have preferred to see something of their surroundings. Was this really all that was out there?]

Floor five
[On floor five, Fayt wanders around a bit before finding the viewing stations. He spends some time eyeing them, wondering if he honestly wanted to know what sights they contained yet, let alone if he could trust them. He wasn’t sure what to believe, if the viewing stations were genuine or not, but he knew what he didn’t want to believe.]

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I met someone being followed by one of them, earlier in the library. [Damn. She'd already seemed so knowledgeable about the tower...]

...She was the one who told me about the video.

Was it Tohko? She told me a bit about the way this place works as well. It was there that I saw the first of the administration's lackeys. I think Tohko called him Ivan?

I don't know. I didn't get her name.

I don't know anyone else who works in the library, but that's besides the point. For the time being, no one who has just arrived to the tower has been followed. And it is only certain members of the 'older' residents that are.

There's a connection that I haven't found, but... [She thought about the retrieval unit that Luke nearly struck her in the head with and frowned.] I think it might have to do with a plot against the administration if I know Luke at all.

A plot against the administration, huh? [Tohko's words had said as much. People were searching for a way to change all this.]

...Makes sense. She said something about people trying to find a way to restore our worlds.

[She nodded.]

It's a noble goal, and one I can see Luke taking to pretty easily.

[Despite his bratty side, Luke is a great person when it came down to it. He would push himself to exhaustion if he wasn't checked. With Guy and Jade gone, it was left to her to keep him from hurting himself, and she was determined to make sure that he stayed whole now.]

One that I will be assisting with if I have the opportunity.

I'd like to help myself if I could. I'm not exactly set on cooperating with the guys in charge here. [Even better if they could find a way to restore their worlds. There had to be some way to go about it. After everything that had happened, he wasn't ready to call it quits. That'd be like letting everything they did mean nothing in the end.] ...I can't just give up on my home, either.

I refuse to give up on Auldrant. Despite what these people wish for me to believe, I just...can't.

[She would save her world from her brother's machinations. She would fight to have her life back to the way it was supposed to be, sans this horrible tower where everything seemed to be one lie after another.]

Even if it kills me, I'm not staying here.

It's the same for me. [Everyone back home, what had happened to them? Were they really all dead? Was everything really destroyed?

And even if it was, he couldn't just accept that. If there was any possibility to change things...] There's got to be some way.

I'm sure there is. And when we find it, these kidnappers will not like what happens.

[He grins a bit at that. Yeah, that was definitely his kind of idea.] They'll get what's coming to them.

[She returned his smile, putting her hand out for him to shake.] My name is Tear Grants, by the way. You are?

[He takes the hand in his, shaking it slightly.] I'm Fayt Leingod. Nice meeting you, Tear.

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[His grip is solid and with just enough strength to prove that the sword strapped at his side wasn't just for show.] It's nice to meet you as well, Fayt. I hope that...you don't let this tower get to you. There are far more important things to do.

[He offers her a grin. At this point he'd just taken to rolling with the punches. Whatever this tower threw at him.... he'd handle it one way or another. He had to.] Don't worry about me. I know what I want to do, and staying stuck here isn't it. You take care of yourself too, alright?

[She reluctantly returns his smile.] There are others from my world, so I'm not so bad off. Are there others here for you?

[That smile falls a bit.] No. No one that I know of, anyway.

[He'd only been here for a few hours... so it was possible, right?

But he knew some of them would at least be doing the same things he's been doing.]

I'm sorry. [Her smile falls and she looks away, completely sorry for being so thoughtless.]

There's still a chance that they are alive. Don't believe everything you hear here.

The people I was with before showing up here are tougher than you'd think. If there was a chance, they'd find it. [Even if he wasn't quite sure where they had been, before showing up here. Elicoor? That was where they'd entered the access point to the the creator's workspace....]

I'm glad to hear it. There are a few people still missing from my...friends. But, somehow, I know they're still out there.