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Characters: Ren, open!
Setting: Floor Ten
Format: Action or prose.
Summary: Ren tries to drink the aquarium water.
Warnings: Nothing right now.
[As the days go on, Ren is starting to notice many things about this tower. One is that it's crawling with living people, something she is both frightened and astonished by. The second is that there's many weird treasures and cool things she's never seen before. One of those floors she's exploring happens to be the aquarium.

She walks around, staring at all the fish and curiously poking at them. Some try to bite her and when that happens, she jumps back. Other times they just follow her finger with their eyes. In one that seems safe, or at least without any fish that feel like nipping her, she purses her lips and tries to get a drink.

Unfortunately that water happened to be the salty kind. She immediately pulls back and sticks out her tongue. She rubs at her face with her arms to get the salt out of her eyes, making a disgusted expression.]

Yuck! I don't like it.

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No, that does not seem like something that would be good.

[Have a Tavros, Ren. He looks pretty depressed, though.]

It's very very bad!

[The salt stings her eyes a little, so she rubs them a bit more before trying to get a look at him. It's still a surprise when people come up and talk to her.]

Who are you?

Um, I am Tavros.

If you don't mind me asking, who are you?

Tavros.

[People sure have some weird names here. She seems to think about it, counting the syllables in her head. It's a short name too.]

I don't mind. I'm Ren.

It is nice to meet you, I guess, even though we are stuck here, which is something that will probably not change.

[He kinda hates feeling like he is now, but he just can't help it.]

We're not stuck. Don't worry. There's a way out of the fish room.

[Probably not what he wanted to hear. Obviously there's a way out if he came in.]

I sort of meant more about the tower, because we are stuck here.

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[Sam was busy trying to keep his mind off things. He didn't know how looking at an aquarium could help but... it was at least peaceful.

He sees someone playing with the water up ahead, smiling weakly. Some good in a place full of bad would keep him from goi-- was she drinking from it?]

[Sam approaches with an amused yet concerned frown on his face. He's so going to be watching to make sure she doesn't keel over in the next ten minutes.]

Probably because you're not supposed to drink it.

[While he gets closer, Ren continues to rub at her eyes with the back of her arms and shaking her head in disgust. When she registers that someone else is talking, she immediately tries to get a look at who it could be.]

...Why is the water bad?

[Well, considering the types of fish swimming about in there...]

... because it has too much salt.

[Yeah. Moving on. Turns from the aquarium and smiles at her in a friendly kind of way.]

I'm Sam.

What is salt?

[She needs to know because that's making everything taste awful. Seeing him smile makes the uneasy feeling of meeting others fade a little. It doesn't feel like there's danger here right now.]

Sam. It's short.

[She likes it.]

I'm Ren.

[Well, it's obviously a lifesaving ward against ghosts and all other evil badniks that go bump in the night.]

People cook with it. A little can help make food taste better, but too much...

[Gestures to the tank; she'll probably get the picture.]

So, Ren, how long have you been awake?

[Tell her that and she's liable to carry a bag of salt with her wherever she goes from here on out. Ren's gaze falls back to the tank when he gestures over there, recalling the memory and making a grimace.]

It's gross when you have too much. That's water for fish only.

[The next question is weird to her.]

I've been awake since I woke up.

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[Suzaku stumbled, there was a child trying to drink the fish water. A child? Or was it his mind playing tricks on him again. The voices were louder, he was pushed by invisable hands he saw things right before his eyes that did not exist.]

I don't think you should drink that. [Talking to them was the best way to make them disapear if they wern't real]

[She looks towards the voice once her salt water on the face situation is taken care of. Does he know what's wrong with it?]

It's bad water. I don't want to drink it anymore.

[She was real, unless his visions had started speaking complete sentances now. He moved closer, children really shouldn't be left to wander around on their own here. He frowned, they really should do something about that... He stumbled as he was pushed again and ignored the voice that screamed in his ear.]

It's fish water of course it's bad. If you're thirsty there's water in the cafeteria.

[Ren takes a step back. Why did he stumble like that? Was he okay?]

...

[Not that she could do anything about it other than watch for now. ]

Do the fish make it bad?

[Suzaku took a step back as well as a vision appeared in front of him. He tried to focus on the girl.]

Not the fish themselves, but sometimes water needs to be warm for fish to live in, or salty and its still water, its not running anywhere which means it's not god to drink.

[She tilts her head, regarding him cautiously and still listens to the explanation on the water.]

The water is running...

[She raises her arms in the air.]

That way. The other way too. It's in the air.

[Either way, she won't drink it again. It tastes disgusting.]

[Abel is, as per usual, exploring the Tower floor by floor in search of some sign as to who -- or what -- might be responsible for their captivity... and the hallucinations his brother has been increasingly suffering.

it's by complete chance that he's walking by the little girl, making a rather studious show of ignoring her presence completely, when she jerks back from the water (...was she licking it, what is even)-- and right into his legs.]

--Hey...

[e... err. squint...

...it's a little ~~cute~~ thing... /TSUNDERE WAVES...]

[His presence had gone unnoticed by Ren, too distracted by small fish and floating water, up until she touched him. Even then, she thought that she had hit some kind of object.

Until he spoke.]

...We're touching.

[She spends a few long seconds realizing what this entails. With her eyes still closed from getting some salt water in them, she immediately stands up and takes a few steps back.]

Who are you?

[err. ERRRR... awkward.

her reaction throws him for a loop, and he is looking at her like she's a strange animal in his vicinity he doesn't know what to do with.]

...It's none of your business.

You should be more aware of your surroundings. This place isn't safe for children to be wandering around unchecked. [NOT THAT HE CARES... NO...... NEVER........ at all...]

[Yep, that's right. He totally doesn't care.

Since it doesn't seem like she needs to run away, she starts rubbing at her eyes and blinks until she can see again. It's too bad her cat isn't here. He'd be able to tell if this person was good or not. It's not safe though? She doesn't see any danger or she'd be long gone, but...]

Are the fish monsters?

[mmn... he glances beyond her toward the creatures in the water.]

Monsters come in all shapes and forms. It isn't the ones in there you should be worried about.

The dog ones are meaner than the fish. You should look out for them too.

[She's talking about creatures from her own world. He's alive, obviously, he'll have to be careful too.]