AKIRA

[voidbreaker]

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[voidbreaker]

[ maybe this is just the sort of thing you do if you're restless and suffering from cabin fever - you prowl the hallways like an angry cat, and wear a hole in the carpet like it's your job. or that's what ash has been doing anyway.

it's probably fine. ]

...

[ oh wait, what's that? a convenient distraction? ]

Hey.

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[yep, seems legit. Ash is just more outwardly angry]

[Akira's mouth quirks into a lopsided smile as he gives his fellow captive a two-fingered salute in greeting]

Training for the pacing marathon, are we?

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[ he kinda just. stops the pacing, like he's just been caught and called out. which is, in fact, exactly what happened. ]

...

If I get my momentum going I might be able to smash straight through a wall and a get out of here. Or, that's the working plan at the moment.

[ he'll. he'll refine it. probably. ]

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[NO JUDGING HERE]

You have my full support. Who really needs that wall, anyway?

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[ ... ]

Depends on if it’s structurally important or not. I’ll try and pick wisely.

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If we manage to get out of here, it won't matter if it is or not.

[said with a light lilt of amusement, but Akira dips his hands into his pockets and jerks his head over his shoulder in a "follow me" kind of gesture]

Come on. Let's take a break.

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[ ... y’know what, sure. It’s not like there’s anything else going on here. ]

Okay?

Pick a room, any room I guess. They’re all being used to sit around doing nothing in.

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Where else would we go? My place, of course.

[he glances over his shoulder with a slightly amused glint in his eye]

Where we do more than just sit around and do nothing.

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[ there’s a just a pause while ash considers... and then folds his arms behind his head. ]

Sure. It’s not like there’s anything else going on here.

[ .......... ]



Do you usually invite people back to your room two days after meeting them, or—? [ ash shut up ]

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[and IMMEDIATELY, without shame nor hesitation, Akira responds]

Nope. Consider yourself special, Mr. Casanova.

[WINK WONK]

[it's the dryest, most deadpan wink in the world]

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[ well then. that just gets him a laugh. ]

Hey, fortune favours the bold. [ And then just as drily: ]

Don't pin your hopes on anything though.

[ But he IS curious what Akira's got back here in the first place. ]

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[a wry snort, and Akira pushes the door to his and Chuuya's room open to reveal. . .]

[A PILLOW FORT. set up between the dresser and the chaise, with pillows and pilfered snacks hidden underneath the tent. SURPRISE]

We couldn't agree on who got the bed.

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[ oh. well, that does get a thoughtful look, directed at the whole pillow fort. ]

...

Not bad. You guy extra pillows from around the place or is it all stuff from your room?

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Just stuff from our room. It could use a few more pillows, but I'll get those later.

[gestures to the pillow fort tent opening. CARE TO JOIN HIM ASH because he's crawling inside]

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One of the kids in my room's insisted he's sleeping on the floor. Maybe a fort'll sweeten the deal for him a bit.

[ ...

Well. I mean.

Yeah? Yeah. He'll be coming in after you, Akira. ]

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Who are you rooming with?

[. . . also, "one of"]

And how many people did they cram into your room, anyway?

[because here it's just Akira and Chuuya]

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Three people.

[ ... ]

Well, me and two small people. Small kid with the orange hair, and the little girl with the white hair and never ending questions. [ They have names, Ash. ]

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[oh my god ash]

Isaac and Nia.

[he's met them both!!]

Isaac's the one insisting he sleep on the floor?

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Yeah. The snowbunny and [ Huh. ] ... eh. I'll go check the plaques again later. He got really weird about sleeping on the bed with snowbunny, and she pretty much just sat on the bed like she was meant to sleep there all along.

[ So, that's that. ]

I'm gonna try and dig out some more duvets and blankets and see if we can't cobble together a mattress for him.

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Mm. If you need some help, let me know?

[a ppppause]

And. . . look after him, too. Nia-san as well, but. . .

[how does he say this without making it sound like Isaac needs to be coddled? because he absolutely does not, but Akira does think that maybe. . .]

I think he could really use a couple of friends in this place.

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[ ... He shrugs, and flops down onto one of the pilows with an 'oof' ]

He seems pretty confrontational. [ Says the most confrontational guy possibly ever. ] Can't say I blame him though.

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I don't blame him, either.

[he isn't going to say "Isaac is clearly afraid" because he doesn't want to RUIN ISAAC'S IMAGE, but. that's the impression he got from the kid]

Nothing about this situation makes someone want to be cooperative.

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Yeah, dinner parties don’t usually last like two full days. Anyone’d get snappy about that.

[ isaac’s image was pretty ruined when he stuttered over platonically sharing a bed with a cute girl but don’t let that stop you akira, you’re a true bro. ]

Got a question for you: do you remember getting an invite to this thing?

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Nope.

[and Akira's expression immediately sours, brows furrowed and lips pulled downward into a frown]

I don't. I even asked Peach-san about it, but she just told me that human memory is faulty.

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Nah. It ain’t that faulty. It remembers more than you think it does.

[ he sounds oddly serious, all things considered. ]

And if it doesn’t, there’ll be something that’ll prompt it. I wasn’t exactly in a position to be signing myself up for dinner parties before I got here, so I’m willing to call some bullshit on this.

[ shockingly enough ]