towerofanimus | For science and curiosity-!!

Characters: Roxas, and hopefully not everyone ever because this is dangerous and dumb.
Setting: Starting on Floor 22 (the art gallery), and going between there, 23 (the missing floor), and 24 (the room that's empty 99% of the time).
Format: I'll follow you to hell and back. ;o
Summary: Roxas settles his mind with a good ol' fashioned bout of Must Solve Mysteries.
Warnings: He's experimenting with a floor that (unknowingly at the moment) erases you. And is going to a floor with a 1% chance of having a mass of shadowy death on it. Oh, and it's Roxas being grumpy. This is probably all I need to say.

Stressing over the earlier tower destruction and restructuring would have to wait; like the weird, pitch-black place, he pushed the incident aside and completely ignored the implications. If he started with the biggest problem, then he'd miss too many details. Trying to figure out little things first would give him a better platform from which to bring this entire building down-

Okay, so maybe he was beginning to notice he'd been more violent lately, and a little more careless to boot. That was why he was doing this in the first place- marching up from floor 22, stopping at 24, then turning around and marching back down. There was a floor here, he knew it somehow, and it was going to eat at him every time he went anywhere until he figured it out. So, why not take care of it now?

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Naminé was familiar with the peculiarities of the twenty-third floor. They'd caught her attention the first time she'd passed it by, and, naturally, she'd taken an interest and sought out answers with her powers. That... had not been a good idea. For one, it was completely fruitless, and for another, it had left her with a headache. After that, she'd known better than to keep trying. However, she still passed through that floor occasionally for the purposes of reaching the others, but it was never without some trepidation.

It was with that trepidation that she reached the top of the stairs and stepped out unto the twenty-second floor just in time to see Roxas come down the stairs from the twenty-third floor... and then turn to go back up. It's not hard to surmise what he's doing, and although she might otherwise think it benign, she feels a chill run through her; his memories have already been tampered with significantly thanks to her, so what effect might the twenty-third floor have on them? The idea unsettles her, and so does the fact that she knows enough about him to have a feeling that that isn't the first time he's done that, which is why she stops short at the top of the stairs from the floor below the twenty-second and says, "Roxas--?"

"Huh?"

Roxas ceased his stormy stomping, blinking in confusion at Naminé's presence for a moment. He'd sort of gotten so in to what he was doing...weird.

He looked back at the stairs, giving a dry sort of chuckle that didn't have much feeling in it.

"Do you know what's up with this floor? It's so bizarre."

The frown that pulled at her lips tugged even harder at that humorless chuckle. That bewildered look didn't exactly help, either.

"No, I don't." Her mind turns toward the stairs, but her eyes stay on him. "But whatever's going on, it might be dangerous." The 'I don't think you should be doing that' was implied.

For science and curiosity-!!

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nams i am sorry you're his babysitter

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