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students in time out: 10

It's a little hard to wake up when the melody that drifts into your ears is so comforting that it'd be so much simpler to stay asleep. Maybe everything that you remember last - the cold seeping into your fingertips, the pain of injury, or the darkness creeping into your vision - will just be parts of a bad dream.

But it's not.

When you wake up, it's probably a little disorienting - you have to push off a blanket and rise from this nice comfortable mat on the floor. Seems like you were all curled up for nap time. Literally. The room that you're in has furniture meant for small humans, children as some might call them, and everything is soft and plush to the touch with rounded corners. Blocks with the alphabet etched onto them, coloring books and crayons, and even a rocking horse dot the room to really give it that childish charm. If you can think of a child-safe toy, it's probably in one of the baskets that line the shelves of the room!

Around the room they'll find baby monitors that broadcast the antics of the living. Hopefully that doesn't feel creepy.

There is a yard outside through the glass doors, but it currently seems to be locked - and the glass won't break no matter how hard you try. There's a large pink door that feels enormous, ten times as tall as you, on one side of the room, but there's no way through that either. At the very top, you might see a directory sign that says: TO ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.

Huh.

Well... for now, get comfortable. It looks like you might be here a while.

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[ yikes........

she just stands here because this seems awkward to approach about. ]

[ Oh, he notices. And the emotions muffle themselves in favor of something more neutral!

Little hand wiggle wave. ]

Hey. Just testing the lines!

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Um... how's that going?

I haven't tried it yet.

You can see for yourself if you wanna!

[ He holds up the receiver to her like, wanna try? ]

Haha, I mean, the line works, sort of. It's just... nothing helpful.

[ huh... she'll take it from him. kaoruko doesn't listen to it yet. ]

This really is a weird place. The admin building is so empty.

Right? It's like ghosts run the place.

[ And then he stiffens, a chill running down his spine for even suggesting the motion. REAL FEAR FOR A HOT SECOND. ]

Oooh, I hope it's not ghosts.

Ghosts?

[ she laughs nervously and shakes her head ]

N-no way! It's definitely not!

Right? No way! It doesn't look all creepy and haunted in here so it can't be!

[ He seems to be a bit more at ease with the topic change. But he looks at her, considering. ]

First time we've met, right? I'm Aikawa, by the way.

... Phone doesn't exactly work, but you'll hear weird stuff through it, just so you know.

I'm Kaoruko.

[ there's a slightly curtsy. ]

I died early on, so I didn't get to meet a lot of people.

[ Curtsy... cute. ]

That sucks, I heard this place was even smaller before we came tumbling in. Though, guess we better hope the place gets bigger before that?

Since, I dunno if more people dying is a bad thing if Lan Wangji's notes are a thing.

Oh, they are. That's the reason I killed Hiyori.

[ no one here has asked so this is the first time she is just openly admitting to it ]

[ The fact that the admission os to the one guy who's trying to be like 'idk anything about the living bye' really adds a layer of comedy to this.

He just like, sucks in some air through his teeth (presumably by the sound). Yeesh. ]

Having to kill a guy doesn't sound pleasant! Tough choices... yep, tough choices.

[ Awkward. ]

He uh. He still mad at you for killing him?

I think he's over it by now. But it was a very awkward first week when we were alone... there was no one else to back up my story, and he was mad that I hid his dog.

[ she mutters, ]

At least I admitted to him about that. She was fine.

Hey, that's good at least! I think. What happened to the dog after, anyway... [ HIYORI YOUR DOG. Let him have Bloody Mary. ] Must be a bit less awkward now with more people around.

...You had to do it, right? If Wangji's notes are for real...

I'm not sure... she didn't show up here, so I assume someone must have her.

[ weird.... hm. ]

But I did. I'm a little jealous of everyone else with the job, because they're at least working as a team... I didn't have anyone to help me.

[ Please Francy tell us Bloody Mary didn't get the horse treatment. I hope she's out there making a kingdom of her own. ]

Guess in your defense, they didn't have an angry dog bark at them and sell them out right away. But now you're freed of the responsibility?

Who told you to do it anyway? To begin with?

Oh. Chad-han.

Um, I was in the same situation that Rupert-han was in. The difference is that the first week it was only me... before I got expelled, I was able to leave a note for Chad on who to recruit after I was gone. I picked him and Otome-han because they were... nice to me. And I figured they would be nice to whoever they had to choose.

Huh? Chad knows? Chad the character, or the guy he's actually supposed to be?

Jeez, this stuff is complicated. Any idea why it was you to begin with? 'Cause you were also nice?

Both, I guess. It was weird talking to him about it.

I'm not sure. I think I was just picked... he said I was assigned to him, and then I could pick who would join me at the end of the week. But I got caught so instead just chose based on trial and who came to visit me on Saturday night.

All this is so weird!

But. Damn, it must've been hard to do it alone. [ At least everyone else had partners, wow. ]

Yeah...

[ she frowns, and then shakes her head. ]

So, I'm just glad the others got to have someone.

But if you didn't start it all, maybe we'd all be stuck still knowing nothing, right?

I know it doesn't mean jack coming from someone like me, but. Putting it out there.

No, I think your opinion is still valid. At the end of the day, we're all stuck in the same boat.

Hey, thanks Kaoruko. Really is too bad it had to start off this way but I'm glad we got to talk.

Mm, me too! It's better late than never or whatever they say.

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