Day 47: Sun Room [2nd shift]

[notthistrain]

Cloud knew he should be taking the opportunity to check out the rec field during the day. The fresh air would be a welcome change from the crowded stuffiness the Institute usually provided, and he would have a chance to scope out the area when it wasn't all under the cover of darkness. When offered a choice, however, he remained in the sun room

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[liveforthispart]

...Goddammit. Why was it every time he was in the middle of talking to someone, he either found himself waking up or was suddenly getting dragged away by his nurse? It was really freaking annoying. Always shoving him around and lecturing him and stuff. Who did they think they were, anyway?! This time, he hadn't even gotten to finish his conversation before he woke up! Argh!

With how long he'd been here, he should probably be getting used to this by now, but he just felt more confused and pissed off as the days went by. This place was so different from anything he'd ever had to deal with. It just kept getting weirder, too. And all the while he felt like he should be doing something to help, but he couldn't think of anything. He hated feeling so useless...

Kanji looked around the big bulletin board room as soon as his nurse shut her trap long enough for him to go in. Pretty much empty, wasn't it? He was kind of hoping Souji would be in here somewhere, but looked like he was outside with the others. Probably should have figured, him being into sports and all. Well, whatever. He was just going to have to deal with it for now.

He glanced at the bulletin board for the whole of four seconds before he decided he wasn't in the mood to stand around and read shit. Instead, he turned walked away from the board, looking around for a good empty spot away from everyone else. Maybe he could get a nap in or something before lunch.

[for Chise!]

[cryingweapon]

After receiving a small 'talk' from the nurse about 'staying away from abusive man like Mr. Cross' and having time to dry her eyes, Chise was given a choice of either the Greenhouse of the Sun Room. Both rooms equally received the same amount of sunlight, but only one of them had a bulletin board. Realizing that she needed to report on her mission, she quickly headed towards the Sun Room.

Walking towards the board, she thought about what happened last night, how she had failed, and the feeling of despair. It just wasn't possible, was she really that weak? When she tried it on a wall several days ago, she was able to create a small hole. There was absolutely no way a door could remain completely intact after not one, but two consecutive shots from her cannon. Maybe she was that weak.

Distracted by thoughts of depression, Chise didn't look where she was looking and suddenly crashed into a poor, unsuspecting person with an 'Oof!'. The collision was hard enough to send her falling on her butt.

[liveforthispart]

Kanji himself had been looking the other way when someone just barreled right into him. Purely out of reflex, Kanji whipped around and threw a somewhat defensive glare at whoever the hell thought tackling him out of nowhere would be a good plan. Only there was no one there to glare at... until he looked down.

A girl. Kinda small. It hadn't really done much else but startle the hell out of him, but it looked like the hit was enough to make her fall to the ground. Kanji blinked down at her in surprise and promptly snapped his mouth shut, seeing as he was about a second away from yelling "Hey! Watch it!" Didn't seem like the best of ideas all of a sudden.

"...Hey, careful. Gonna end up breakin' your nose like that." That was... kind of the closest he was going to get to saying "I'm sorry" in this kind of situation. Not like he was the one who did anything wrong but whatever. After a brief hesitation, he reached a hand down to her to help her get up. "...You 'lright?"

[cryingweapon]

Chise looked up to see who it was she crashed into, and instantly braced herself for the yelling that was soon to come. But the yelling never came. Instead, it was concern and a helping hand.

"I-I'm sorry, I'm really sorry for running into you," she quickly apologized, taking the boy's hand. "I'm perfectly fine, b-but what about you? I didn't hurt you, did I?!"

She quickly looked over the boy for any signs of injury and came up with nothing. It was then she realized that he was tall...really tall. She barely even came up to his chest!

[liveforthispart]

As soon as she took his hand, Kanji pulled her up as carefully as possible. Her weight about matched her size, so getting her to her feet wasn't much of an issue. At least she had taken his offer and hadn't started, you know, crying or shrinking away or screaming for one of the hags. He'd take this over that any time. But it was kind of weird to have someone actually worry about hurting him, especially when he wasn't the one who fell. So he wasn't really sure how to respond to this. Kanji scratched the back of his head and hopefully didn't look as uncomfortable as he was feeling.

"Y... Yeah, I'm fine. I mean, you don't gotta make a big deal outta it or anything, alright? Not like you meant to plow into me or whatever. And, uh..." He was going to start rambling at this rate. He shook his head slightly, trying to cut himself off. "...Just forget about it. Okay?" He looked away, trying to distract himself a little bit. He could only hope that was enough to get her to not apologize any more. ...Maybe he should change the subject or something? "Uh. Here. Siddown."

That was supposed to be an invitation.

[cryingweapon]

Chise let out a sigh of relief. Thank goodness he wasn't hurt! Even though she was small, she was a weapon as well, one that could instantly bring out small guns to kill a person in self-defense.

The man (or boy) was physically intimidating but he sounded a lot nicer than he appeared, which was the reason why Chise didn't back away as far as possible. And now he wanted her to sit down...somewhere.

"H-Huh? Where--Oh! On the couches, right. Eh-heheh...Sorry," she replied and led them to the nearest one which happened to be occupied by a small creature.