and I need someone to talk to apart from you

[animusnpcs]

Characters: Zo, open
Setting: floor 001
Format: brackets, party-style
Summary: Zo visits the residential levels of the Tower.
Warnings: none so far

[The elevator dings as its doors slide open--that's not an unusual occurrence, really, for a floor that not only houses one of the elevator stopping points but also the most reliable food sources. What's unusual, though, is the boy who steps out of it.

Zo enters the cafeteria, looking around as if he hasn't seen it in some time, which is true. He's followed by one retrieval unit. While she looks as blank as any retrieval unit, her collar is chipped and she wears glasses. In fact, she might be a bit familiar to some, though she will not respond (but there's something... Unusually alive about her, even so).

Though he's careful not to stray far from his bodyguard, he smiles at the floor in general.]

Um... Hi! Wow, it's been a while since I've been up here!

Comments

[animusnpcs]

When I take you, your souls get frozen right the way they were. But that thing--I don't know what it was--unfroze his soul, and then his soul realized that all his people weren't here and were, um, dead.

[France may have an idea of exactly how serious the death England almost experienced was now, as well as what kind of death it almost was.]

[silencetoreason]

[France is silent for a long time. The look of abject horror on his face is hard to mistake. What Zo just described is a gut-wrenching fate, a horrible one, one that he - literally, in this case - would not wish upon his worst enemy.

He can't even look Zo in the eye any more. He stares at a spot on the floor.]

He... went through that? England did? [He presses his fingers to his lips, and his voice comes out muffled.] He didn't tell me any of that at all...