Night 37: F11-20 Hallway

[hajike_tobiume]

This night was one Momo was not looking forward to. Yes, Renji deserved the memorial, but the vice captain couldn't help but wonder if Landel was going to interrupt it. There were a lot of people that were going to attend and, whereas that made them a formidable force to be reckoned with should something attack, it also meant that a lot of the

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[mind_the_sukima]

[Continued(?) from here]

"Oh, sounds like it's time to play," said Yukari as the intercom cut in before she could get Callisto's opinion. The second cut in of the intercom was a little unexpected, though it really shouldn't have been, if Yukari considered the whole duality of the institute. So that was how it would be. She could already tell that many of the monsters and hazards of the night were going to be "dark" versions of things she'd seen in the day. Probably.

Well, she could find that out after she found other things out, namely, her powers. Giving an absent swing of her parasol, she let loose a barrage of brightly colored danmaku. Only she didn't.

"Hmm..." Giving a shrug, she tried to open a gap out into the hallway that she could just walk through. For a moment, a little tear of purple and red appeared in the air before her before fizzling out. It was so quick, it might have been a trick of the eye, but Yukari had felt it.

"Well. Well, well well," she murmured with a smile. So she wasn't completely powerless.

[givemeoblivion]

Callisto missed any display of abilities from her roommate, busy as she was in preparing to leave for the night. Now that the doors were open, she didn't have the time to try and convince Yukari further. She'd just have to find someone else to drag along on the way.

"I'm leaving," she said over her shoulder, in case the other woman hadn't already left herself. "Do have fun on your own little jaunt around the building."

[mind_the_sukima]

"You too," called Yukari distractedly, considering the air before her and the facts. Well, she apparently could use her power, just not to open portals into the next room over.

Well, start small.

She willed a tiny hole, a gap barely big enough to fit her finger through, to come into existence before her. To her pleasure, it happened quite natural; the air split, revealing a void of purple and crimson. A single, curious eye stared back out of it at her.

Waving her hand, more for effect than anything else, she slowly expanded the gap, widening, elongating. At about two feet across, its growth began slowing. Actually concentrating, Yukari stared at the portal, forcing it wider.

It was strange, actually having to put effort into doing what she did. Almost disconcerting, considering how little she was doing, if it weren't for the fact she had more or less expected it for this sort of game - after all, how easy would it be if she could simply walk out of this reality

[givemeoblivion]

That did get Callisto's attention, and she spun to watch Yukari's efforts with a frown of confusion. (Did that hole have ribbons on the sides?) She stepped closer to the other blonde to get a better look, careful not to get too close. She'd been through a dimensional gateway before and she didn't feel like repeating the process - especially without her godhood to help get back again.

"And what's that supposed to be?" she asked, trying to sound as though such things were commonplace and not worth staring at in bafflement.

[mind_the_sukima]

"A gap," she replied, grinning over her shoulder at her roommate's attempt to remain nonchalant. "A break, an opening, an empty space or interval, an interruption in continuity. The space between here..."

Her smile widened as she successfully opened a second gap behind Callisto's head, a twin to the one before her. She reached one gloved hand into the gap, its swirling depths swallowing up her arm as though she were submerging it in violet waters. As she did, the same unmistakably gloved arm reached out of the portal behind Callisto, setting its hand on her shoulder.

"...and there," she concluded.

[givemeoblivion]

The hand on Callisto's shoulder was grabbed immediately, and the former warlord threw her weight forward with the intention of pulling anyone attached to it over her shoulder before slamming to the ground in front of her. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew it belonged to Yukari, but there were some lessons that just had to be taught - this one being that startling the Greek woman wasn't the best of ideas.

[mind_the_sukima]

Okay, so really, startling someone that Yukari knew was probably in a violent line of work probably wasn't the brightest idea she'd had all day, but how could she resist? The look on Callisto's face was, while not quite priceless, certainly chuckle-worthy, in a "oh, shit, she's mad!" sort of way.

But for everything, there is a price. And unfortunately, the price here was having Callisto try to throw Yukari over her shoulder.

Even more unfortunately, for all parties involved, it didn't work.

What happened instead was Callisto yanking her arm, Yukari flying forwards, slamming into the gap before her up to her shoulder, then yelping in pain as it felt like her arm was about to be torn off, since her body wouldn't go throughLuckily, due to the speed of the throw and Callisto probably not expecting to have to pull someone through a hole that was too small, the warrior's grip gave out before Yukari's shoulder did, and her hands ended up coming away with nothing but a white glove as Yukari quickly withdrew her arm from her end of the gap

[givemeoblivion]

"What was that?" Callisto snapped, The glove was tossed aside and onto the bed, only barely missing the tray with what was left of her dinner. "What were those and what can you do with them?"

If her roommate could stick her arm through one and have it come out the other side, what else could she stick through? She hadn't been able to fit fully, but if the hole had been made larger, could she have?

She didn't want to waste time here. The longer she stayed, the less people there would be around to potentially latch on to.

[mind_the_sukima]

"I told you, it's a gap," replied Yukari, still massaging her shoulder as she went over to retrieve the glove. "I can put things through them." And into them and on top of them. And into other dimensions and theoretical concepts. Never mind that there were even more things she could (maybe) do. Oh, well. Yukari didn't feel like elaborating and besides, she'd heard lying by omission was popular these days.

Opening gap, she quickly directed it around the room as she replaced her glove. In a few seconds, she established that it - the gap, that was - couldn't go through things, which was somewhat annoying, nor, if she stood in the corner, could it reach the far end of the room; it seemed five meters was her limit without pushing it

[givemeoblivion]

Despite how curious she was about what Yukari was capable of, Callisto didn't stop the woman as she left. She was right. There would be future dinner shifts and she'd be thoroughly grilled then.

She might have stopped her if those abilities seemed particularly useful, but she'd been watching the other blonde try things out and she could tell she wasn't used to the limitations of this place. If those gaps, or whatever they were, had been useful before, they wouldn't be the same here.

The former warlord scowled and went off on her own. She had a proper stooge to find.

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