Day 46: Breakfast

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For the second time, Rika found herself waking with a start. She blinked at the grey light streaming through the windows, and looked across the room. Anise was still asleep. So. I'm still here. Let me just check...Rika put on her slippers and walked over to the desk, checking the drawer and breathing a light sigh of relief. Good, the knife was

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[This one okay?]Endrance woke, his fingers touching his lips lightly, as if reminding himself that hadn't been a dream. When his nurse escorted him to the cafeteria, he was in a bit of a daze, still, enough that the woman checked to see if he was running a fever before escorting him through the cafeteria line. He sighed, loading up a plate with a waffle and fruit, then taking some juice

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"Thank you...the staff here can be rather pushy when it comes to interactions." Endrance set his tray down, then took his seat. "My name is Endrance," he said, finally remembering to introduce himself at the beginning of a conversation. It was hard when one was used to having someone be able to click on their PC and find out their name and the like.

"I'm still not entirely used to it myself...I'm not very extroverted, usually." He let out a small, forced laugh. That much was certainly true. Endrance wasn't still entirely comfortable being part of a crowd in such a large room like this one, or even the Sun Room, and he doubted if he ever would be. It was one of those things where either you were okay with it from birth or not, he suspected, and he definitely wasn't so comfortable with it.

He started to say something else, but decided against it, picking at a piece of melon and chewing it thoughtfully. At the same time, he scanned the room out of the corner of one eye, keeping a watch for Haseo.

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He turned back, returning his attention to the conversation. Haseo (Ryou, he reminded himself) was fine. Macha would have reacted to Skeith's absence, he was sure of that. He didn't need to worry. "It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."

Endrance was starting to think he would be better off introducing himself as Kaoru from now on, but...it was strange, thinking that it was easier to go by his given name in his PC's body. It didn't feel natural; if anything, the opposite was true. Kaoru was the blond who was so separated from the world - a prison he had chosen. And Endrance...he was in The World. There was a definite difference.

He chuckled lightly at Jun's comment. "It's a strange form of logic, isn't it? Telling us to talk to each other in the hope we'll 'get well', but..." That was an understatement.

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Endrance nodded, noting the heavier tone in that statement. That much was true, and he knew that better than most. That much made him nervous, to be honest, and he glanced around again, looking for familiar faces. He still didn't see Haseo, though seeing Tsukasa made him breathe a slight sigh of relief. There was a degree of nervousness beginning to build slowly.

"That much is true...between what seemed to be the apocalypse, and...what they do to hurt people..." The strain crept into his voice - not panic, not yet. But he was certainly on edge; not angry, simply nervous.