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[two_in_eden]

Who: seimei aoyagi two_in_eden  , elaine belloc demiurgos_girl  , ritsuka aoyagi no_no_badtouch  , soubi agatsuma wants_ur_ears  , nisei akame want_your_tears  ,  and  Angel talks_to_fish 
Where: Moving around Wonderland.. (Starting in the Foyer)

When: On the fourth day of Seimei being gone...
Rating: R+ for possible disturbing images and Major's fallout shenanigans.

(This post contains disturbing and dark themes. Do not

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[demiurgos_girl]

Elaine had also been surprised when Angel had showed up. Distracted as she was, she hadn't even realized the younger girl was there until she felt the familiar greeting in her head. Shocked, her immediate inclination was to tell off the blond, to make her go away. For her own sake of course. The less the Major saw of Angel, and vice versa, the better.

But that would have been a hypocritical thing to do, considering how young Elaine was as well. Besides, Angel could take care of herself, right? Still... Stay close to me. The words form in Elaine's mind and she sends them out to Angel. She has to admit the younger girl has a... soothing effect on her. The anger drains away from Elaine (or to be more precise, she forces it away) so that Angel won't pick up on how upset she really is

[no_no_badtouch]

Elaine's thoughts mirrored Ritsuka's. It was his fault that Seimei had gotten hurt, his fault that this was happening. His hands balled into hard fists as Nisei kept talking. The Major kept his brother in a hole. In a dirty disgusting hole for four days. Things had to be bad for him right now. Really bad. He thought about the bottle of meds in his pocket and wondered if that would be enough. The meds and the bandages. He was worried even more now.

"We'll have to check for injuries before we move him." He paused, looking at Elaine. "Can you move him without disturbing injuries?" Although it might be better to tend to the injuries before he was removed from the hole ... if he was even alive that is ...

[wants_ur_ears]

Were it up to Soubi, they would yank Seimei out of the hole and crack his head a few times on the way up. He seemed to be in the minority with this sentiment, however, and so he kept his mouth shut. Nisei's appearance made him more uncomfortable than he'd allow to show, and the glare he fixed Hibari with was positively cutting.

He followed for now, keeping alert as they moved.

[want_your_tears]

As he thought, the others were quick to chime in with helpful ideas. That sort of thing had never been his strong point. After all, he'd never needed to think, with Semei the great stategist being the one to give him orders. He didn't know if he wanted to trust someone he knew so little of with the task of getting him out. However, Ritsuka seemed to trust her enough with the task, and that made quite a statement. So he didn't argue

[demiurgos_girl]

"Yes. I could bring him up to you, or make several trips to bring one of you down then back up again along with Seimei." Which would drain her to the point of a splitting migraine. But nothing dangerous, yet. Angel would make things easier, too, as Elaine could use her familiar prescence as a sort of anchor or marker, making the trip out of the hole much easier than the trip into it.

She couldn't say that she liked Nisei. He seemed to be acting out of some sort of responsibility, and not any actual sympathy or care. But that was enough at the moment, as Elaine followed calmly, feeling great to finally have a sense of direction and purpose after all that fruitless searching. That meant that she could concentrate more now, and although she still couldn't sense the Major, she began feeling ahead for any traps he may have laid.

Nothing. No traps. That scared her more than it should.

[talks_to_fish]

One could think that it wasn't the Major's fault that Seimei had gotten hurt, as much as half the group seemed to blame themselves. She didn't like that, and a frown formed on her little face while she followed the older girl silently. She'd stay close to the other; being used to work in a group of at least two or three, but usally six people, she wouldn't have considered getting into anything alone if she didn't really really have to do it.

Nisei isn't a danger. It was obvious, but sometimes it was good to tell people that they were right; that they didn't need to worry. After a short moment of private thought, she added Should I link with Ritsuka? He's the most likely target.

[no_no_badtouch]

Ritsuka was trying to think, to stay focused, but it was hard. This was his brother, the person he thought was dead for two years before Soubi showed up and everything changed. He couldn't lose him again, even if it was a mansion death

[wants_ur_ears]

Soubi was about to make a snide remark (why was Ritsuka giving someone else orders when he'd never give orders to Soubi?), but thought better of it, considering the situation. The others planned, they plotted as they walked, trusting that Nisei was actually leading them to an injured Seimei rather than an elaborate trap. Yet even as they all talked amongst themselves of Seimei's suffering, and how they should rescue him, and how they should go about bandaging his wounds... all Soubi could manage to feel was a deep twinge of satisfaction. A satisfaction that Seimei had recently been getting a taste of just the sort of agony through which he'd once put Soubi.

The Germans call that schadenfreude.

[want_your_tears]

Not all that fond of orders coming from someone other than Seimei, Nisei followed them regardless, speeding up his steps. They were close now. Nisei tensed up slightly, prepared for whatever was going to happen.

Up ahead, he saw a small clearing - a seemingly bare and empty space. His eyes narrowed. This was the place. Twenty or so feet ahead of him, there was a large, circular hole covered with a metal grate. Clenching his teeth slightly, he motioned for the others to stop ten feet from their destination.

"We're here..." He said simply, although it was hardly necissary to say so when they could probably see it quite clearly.

[demiurgos_girl]

A pit. Not an underground prison as Elaine had thought. That made things much simpler...

"If it's just this, then I won't have to use much power at all." Impatience gnawed at her though, and instead of waiting for someone to get rid of the grate, she did it herself, burning away the metal with the energy she had gathered. Hardly any expenditure of power, but it tired more than usual. "That's all." Then, with a sound like cloth flapping in a high wind, her wings unfurled behind her, and she stepped out onto the air above the pit. The path down seemed clear enough. She couldn't sense any traps, at least, but it was a bit too dark to see Seimei. Or maybe the pit was too dirty, and he was lost somewhere in a corner along with all the filth...

Yes, Angel, link with Ritsuka. For some reason, Elaine felt some hesitation about Angel linking to anyone but herself, but she pushed that aside. Listen to his thoughts more than speaking to him. And stay here. The last two words were stressed. Like hell she was going to let anyone else take the

[*snerk* Come with me if you want to live!]

[two_in_eden]

Seimei had held completely still when he heard the noise above the hole. Fear kept him silent because the movement he heard did not sound like the Major. Instead of rescue the sacrifice thought he had finally submitted to madness

[talks_to_fish]

Angel had nodded at Elaine's words and shifted to stay back, not be far away from the group, still near Ritsuka, but also standing so she could watch as much as possible around her. Linking her mind with Ritsuka's didn't take her long; balancing both connections and keeping them equally strong took a bit more effort, but she tried to not let it affect the concentration that she put into watching their surroundings. Multitasking like that wasn't new to her, after all.

[no_no_badtouch]

"NO!" Ritsuka actually runs forward after Elaine. What was she doing? Seimei wouldn't react well to that at all. He'd thrash and scream and try to hurt her. She wasn't someone who was allowed to touch him ... and he could be injured.

Idiot! You stupid idiot! Don't go down by yourself, you don't know him. You don't understand what you're doing! His mind screamed, but then he felt that twitch at the back of his mind. Something was there ... no, someone was there. GET OUT! He screamed at them as loud as he could. He didn't have time to deal with this now, he had to help Seimei and stop Elaine from doing something stupid and getting hurt.

He turned back to Nisei and Soubi. "Both of you, go down there. Soubi, keep Elaine safe without hurting Seimei, Nisei, Check Seimei's condition. Use the bandages and disinfectant in my bag." He threw the bag at Nisei hoping he'd catch it.

[wants_ur_ears]

Soubi stared at his sacrifice for a moment. 'Go down there,' he ordered. Well that was all well and good, but that still left the question of how to do so. Even he couldn't do anything so precise as... say, summoning a rope ladder. Or even rope.

The fighter's brother furrowed and he stepped to the edge of the hole, staring down into the dark fathoms. Even if he managed to get down there in one piece, there was no guarantee he'd stay that way. He wasn't exactly one of Seimei's favorite people. He might get clawed to bits and then die of gangrene from filth-infected sores. That would be pleasant

[want_your_tears]

Even on such short notice, Nisei caught the bag in one hand. Patting the inside of his jacket to make sure the supplies he brought himself were still there, he nodded solemnly, not all that thrilled that Soubi was going with him. But he wasn't going to argue. Not now. Things were getting out of hand down there, and as Seimei's fighter, he had to do something.

Approaching the open hole as he watched Soubi drop, he watched the other fighter and cleverly borrowed the idea the first used. With his sacrifice so close and clearly in need, he was able to borrow strength from their bond and land a little more gracefully at the bottom. He couldn't waste any time being hurt.

Quickly taking in the scene, Nisei's eyes immediately darted to Seimei. What he saw was not pretty at all. In fact, even he was disgusted by the filth. Adjusting the bag in his arms, he stepped a bit closer to Seimei, trying to get a better look at the situation he was in. "Sorry I'm late." And imagining what Seimei'd been through... he really was.

[talks_to_fish]

Angel clenched her jaw, keeping quiet; for one, that had come as an surprise, in a way, and secondly, she didn't want to show what she was able to do - On the other hand, should Ritsuka try to go down there himself, she would not hesitate to stop him. This had already gotten worse for Elaine enough to not give her more to worry about.

Link, not talk. She bit back a sharp comment about how it would make things a lot harder and slow them down, unless the two men grow suddenly wings, but quit it. No need to steer up trouble. Instead, she stepped forward and dug her fingers into the boy's shirt, to at least have the option to slow him down physically for a few seconds.