Down once more [Active/Locked]

[allthekeys]

Who: Mary, Knuckle, Terezi, Nahollo, Klavier, Orihime, The Riddler.
Where:Unknown Location
When: Night 003
What: The people with bracelets are taken.
Warnings: General trigger warning for this thread, discussion of damage.

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[leekspin]

One might never have known just how scared Orihime was. Her hands didn't shake, she didn't scream or hyperventilate, she didn't hunker down and quiver, and she didn't pace anxiously. The only real signs that she harbored any fear at all was the rapid beating of her heart, and her slightly-quickened breathing.

She thought she'd seen Knuckle when she'd been effortlessly dragged into the strange white room and sealed away behind bars, but she'd been twisting and struggling a great deal, and scarcely noticed the majority of her surroundings. What she did notice was that she couldn't feel the spiritual presence of anyone in the room, and to her dismay, she found that her powers had been sealed. The spirits didn't respond to her willpower, and her hairpins stayed dormant.

They still might serve a purpose, though. Orihime had removed one from her temple, and had jammed the end of it into the keyhole of her cage's lock. She remained busily engaged in her task, furrowing her brow and frowning slightly.

This would have been a lot easier if she knew the first thing about lockpicking. But she'd never had reason to try it before, and hadn't the slightest idea of what she should be feeling out. Tumblers, she supposed, but she was still uneducated. All she could rely on was dumb luck, and enough time to work and figure it out before the reason for their captivity became known. The threat of experimentation and dissection had been made to her once before. She was aware of what it was she probably faced if she couldn't escape in time.

[3minutefisting]

The noise to his left caught his attention after he had prepared himself for a fight, removing his robe and wrapping up his hands, he went to investigate the sound and... oh in the lords name! They brought a child here. A child! This he couldn't take. This was not the setting for such a bright young girl! He needed to find a way to get her out.

"Orihime! Good heavens are you alright?!"

[leekspin]

Orihime's head snapped up, repressing the instinctive urge to snap her hand back and hide her hairpins. So it was Knuckle! Strained relief crossed her features as she smiled. It was good to see a familiar face, but she couldn't exactly be thrilled with the knowledge that he'd been abducted as well.

"I'm okay," she reassured him, turning her attention back to the lock. "They didn't hurt me. What about you?"

The fact that they'd been so gentle with her scared her even more than if they'd wrestled her down with brute force. They didn't need to do anything at all. She was simply taken, and there had been absolutely nothing she could do about it.

She knew he was a priest, but he was a boxer before, and it was possible he had some other skills that might have previously been considered unsavory. "Ne," she dropped her voice to a whisper. "Can you pick locks?"

[3minutefisting]

"I'm alright, I'm alright." He laughed a little in hopes of lightening the mood, "What's another couple blows to the head anyway? The damage has already been done."

At he question he looks curiously at her hairpin for a moment, then rubs the back of his neck awkwardly.

"I'm afraid I don't. I've never done well with skills that require some sort of finesse to them... I'm a bit clumsy..."

To put it politely.

[leekspin]

"Oh, well, that's okay," she smiled, placing her hairpin on the floor outside of the bars and flicking it toward Knuckle's cell. "I don't have any experience either, but maybe one of us will get lucky. I have two, so we'll double the odds if we both work at it, ne?"

Orihime glanced briefly at the lab area, then at the door, before she slipped her arm between the bars once more and inserted the tip of her hairpin into the lock. "Just be sure to send it back if there's any sign of them returning," she whispered. "I don't know how much they already know about us, but it would probably be suspicious if they noticed I wasn't wearing these."

[3minutefisting]

Knuckle picked up the little hairclip and as carefully as he could started trying to work the locks. He didn't want to break the hairpin, it sounded as though it was something important.

"I take it these are not something you typically part with then?"

Perhaps they were special, like the Vongola rings? He had never imagined such items could be fashioned into hair clips- but it wasn't exactly like the Vongola had ever thought to put items into such a form.

[leekspin]

She shook her head with a small smile. "They're the source of my powers, when they're not sealed like they are now." She wasn't sure how the creatures had done that to her, and it was more than a little unnerving. "And they were a gift from my brother. They're very important to me."

But she trusted Knuckle, which was probably more than obvious to him now that she'd explained a little better.

Something clicked in the lock, causing her to stiffen in hopeful expectation. But to her disappointment, the cage door still held fast. It seemed she hadn't managed to loosen anything after all.

[3minutefisting]

Knuckle paused for a moment to look at the little pin in his hand.

"I'll be gentle with it."

A gift from a family member- that certainly would be something to treasure in a place like this. He continued trying to pick the lock again- only quite bit more carefully. He didn't want to break it, he almost felt bad for using it in such a way. Perhaps he could try to pick the lock with his Vongola ring instead! It was more sturdy then a hair pin, and perhaps it would kick-start it into working again!

And then dawned on him that a ring would not fit into the lock in the first place. This is why he left thinking up plans up to other people.