Backtagging an Introduction

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Who: Ryuho Ryu and anyone
Where: Main Hallway
When: Day 001
What: Ryuho arrives and is not happy
Warnings: None.

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Luke was coming down the stairs. Since night had fallen outside, the vague prickling of his danger sense had grown more acute, and he had his senses open wide to detect anything coming, and to keep track of the people in the house. If anyone got into trouble, Luke wanted to do what he could to help. It was because of that he was able to sense when Ryuho arrived. One minute, there were the expected number of people he could sense; the next, there was one more. And they were close.

He could hear someone coming up the stairs toward him and paused, one hand on the banister. "Hello?" he called into the darkness.

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"Who's there?" Ryuho answered, his voice flat. His movement in minimal, but his focus had shifted entirely to the approach of someone new, visible only in the shifting of his front food and the tenseness in his shoulders.

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Luke kept his voice level too, but it projected calm and reassurance rather than an absence of anything, the same as what he projected in the Force toward this new person. "My name is Luke Skywalker," he said. Normally this was where he'd say he was Grand Master of the Jedi Order but experiences here had proven not everyone knew what that was, and it wasn't as important as people here getting along and sticking together for strength and protection.

And something about the house, and his previous encounter with a ghostly little girl, told him that anything of the like that he ran into while it was night would want something a little more substantial than friendship. "Who are you?"

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"Ryuho Ryu of HOLY." He replied in a monotone voice, not relaxing in the slightest. "By what authority have I been brought here?"

He didn't know who this was. He clearly was not Japanese, and his manner implied that he was no intimidated by the idea of meeting an alter user. The thought that he would not know what an alter user was did not even cross his mind.

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Nina peered carefully around the corner, startled by the loud voice and unsure why someone was shouting. Maybe they'd just got here? Sometimes people shouted really loud when they were confused, as though making a lot of noise would make the confusion easier to deal with. "Nobody knows who did it, Mister. We all just got here too. What's HOLY? Is it like the Military?"

She remained tucked just out of sight, eye just visible around the corner.

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He looks in her direction. He's not really relaxed, but he's less threatening when faced with a child.

"Where is this? It can't be Kanagawa." If this was Kanagawa, she wouldn't have to ask. "How do you now know? Where you unconscious when brought here?"

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"I don't know. It's a big house. Like lots of people should live here, only we're the only ones." She shifted a bit to peer at him, head tipped to the side. "I've never heard of Kana...Kanagawa?" It was an unfamiliar word and she was only four, her attempts were mangled at best. "Nah uh, I just tripped and I was here."

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"This must be an illusion then. I can't think of another reason." His tone is completely emotionless.