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Characters: Anyone who stayed behind
Setting: 29th to the 31st, Anywhere
Summary: After the volunteers went below, what did those who stayed behind do?
Warnings: Usual Animus warnings, check for subject lines!

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"Those tears-" Hopefully Romeo will understand this time, Sephiroth raises a hand as well, to point at where he is looking. But then drops it shortly after. This will be his last attempt to see if Romeo might understand his reasoning.

"-they must lead somewhere. That isn't inside of the Tower. At least as we know it."

Romeo looked up, and saw the strange flickering in the air. "Oh... do you want to try and see what's through them sir?"

He peered upwards but he couldn't see anything through it.

Sephiroth can't either, but he's very curious nonetheless. It's similar to when there was a rip in the floor-they-can't-usually-access, and he'd made a note to stay away from. Those 'things' had come out of it eventually.

"I just wonder-"

Then as if something had brought him out of some deep thought, Sephiroth blinked, turned his head down and towards Romeo and shrugged in a smooth roll of shoulder armor.

"-just another thing to add to the list."

"We could try and find out." Romeo told him, "If you want to. Then you would know and it wouldn't have to be on the list anymore."

Sephiroth didn't much like the idea of going up the flights of stairs necessary to get a closer look at that flickering. If the last time was anything like this time, it wasn't safe by any means to do so.

It also seemed like Romeo wasn't going anywhere soon either, another thing he didn't want to have to tolerate for very much longer.

His gaze comes down to small child once more, then looks over instead to the nearby flight of stairs going downward.

"I need to get back into seeing how far this damage goes."

That is, if he didn't pop again out of reality on the way again.

"I'll come with you." Romeo told him with a smile, "I bet it goes all the way down."

This child is quite positively the most naive one in the entire Tower. Sephiroth doesn't know what part of his off-ish body language the boy doesn't understand, or how he doesn't understand the hints betrayed in long silences that Sephiroth has patiently been leaving for him to pick up on.

He will never understand children.

"I can manage it alone."

Idea.

"Don't you have friends you need to go and check on?"

Romeo blinked at him and then nodded, because he did have friends that probably needed help and Sephiroth was a grown up and quite powerful. He could manage on his own.

"Well good luck sir! Be careful!"

Sephiroth even tilts his head in a half-salute towards Romeo to encourage, before the small guy heads off on his own.

Leaving him to continue on his own patrol, alone.

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