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Taura pondered the announcement she'd just heard as she jogged down another empty hallway. Who was she? Jill? Who he'd tortured himself, though that could have been an act on her part as well? Whose side had she been on? And what could have happened to her that would be permanent ( Read more... )

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Kirk ran into the main hallway and found nothing there except more pink light coating everything. His gut feeling said that if something was happening, it should've happened already, but he was a loss to explain what was going on. The system (if he could call it that, vague as it was to describe the whole Landel's torture/ ( Read more... )

[from here]Stepping outside sent chills all over Brook's body for how cold it was. He'd welcomed it when there was snow for him to play with, but given the absence of the white powder this evening, Brook only shivered and crossed his arms to rub away the sensation ( Read more... )

[from here]"I wonder where everyone is at?" Brook paused a moment in his humming to question at the empty hallway ( Read more... )

[from here]The moment Brook entered the hallways, he began humming as he always did when venturing out - the tune of Bink's Sake accompanying him as if it were a presence of it's own. Though he tended to hum it slowly, just in case something nasty was listening in, the song was still one he considered uplifting. It had gotten him through years ( Read more... )

From the day he had learned that two of the four he'd been with were, for the most part, safe and sound. That he'd not seen or heard from either one of the remaining though had left him worrying through his dinner, which he'd not felt like eating. Having friends turn up missing was one thing that he knew very well, but after that Arena... Brook ( Read more... )

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Sesshoumaru had not been in the building for nearly long enough to really know it, and his knowledge had not been expanded yesterday as it might otherwise have been, because of the poisons that had been fed into his system - poisons that somehow worked, which had been a disconcerting and unpleasant experience. In the end, though, all ( Read more... )

Touching the sandy grounds of the coliseum was a catalyst, and the progression of day did not mean the end of the process. By fortune or otherwise, this group's efforts were not allowed to halt simply due to the rising sun. Therefore, when nighttime was pronounced, those who had undergone the beginnings of an incomplete trial were pulled from their ( Read more... )

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Sasuke woke with a start and thought -- for one horrible, infuriating moment -- that the night had ended again without conclusion or satisfaction. He had nearly opened his mouth to swear at the doubtless-waiting soldier when his senses caught up to his anger and the chilly, musty air pressed into awareness ( Read more... )

[ from here ]That feeling of vertigo that came with using the ring seemed to be getting worse with each trip, Erika thought, as she saw the world spin around her and felt that tugging sensation pulling all three of them. Well prepared this time, Erika braced herself as she felt wind roaring in her ears and saw the surroundings change into that ( Read more... )