[She's curled up on her side on the bed when she wakes up, eyelashes fluttering briefly before blinking into fuller consciousness, pushing herself up with her arms and looking around, blinking dully.]
What...?
[She's already beginning to feel afraid, but it's a distant, muted sensation, ringing in her ears.
Water running from the bathroom. There's someone in here with her. She looks at the closed bathroom door and swings her legs over the side of the bed, resting bare feet on the floor. She should... go ask. Something. But she doesn't do anything, for the moment.]
[Edgeworth finally emerges from the bathroom. His cravat isn't in place, and his jacket is missing, and one untoweled lock of hair is dripping wet spots on his shoulders - but he's otherwise intact, otherwise clothed.
But he's deeply confused. He doesn't know how he got here...And that confusion only deepens when he sees Rin.]
Ms. Asano?
[He's confused, too, by the deep sense of melancholy he feels upon looking at her.]
[Rin blinks up at him, still confused and disconnected, trying to make sense of his appearance. Edgeworth is here? That's not... a bad thing. Cautious friendliness and ambivalence makes its way onto her face.]
[He wants, for some reason, to go over and embrace her. He wants to go and to stroke her hair and tell her absurd nonsense - that things will be all right, that she needn't fear anything...He clamps that down as sentimental, unneeded nonsense.]
I don't know. [She gets up and moves closer. She's a touchy, tactile kind of girl; that kind of impulse isn't so far from her mind, and it isn't so strange for her to act on it. The desire to cling to the adult and receive comfort...] I don't even know what this place is.
[He looks down at her, a bit startled by her touch - but the moment of surprise passes, and he looks down, a gentle smile lighting his face. He pets her gently, comfortingly on the head.]
What...?
[She's already beginning to feel afraid, but it's a distant, muted sensation, ringing in her ears.
Water running from the bathroom. There's someone in here with her. She looks at the closed bathroom door and swings her legs over the side of the bed, resting bare feet on the floor. She should... go ask. Something. But she doesn't do anything, for the moment.]
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But he's deeply confused. He doesn't know how he got here...And that confusion only deepens when he sees Rin.]
Ms. Asano?
[He's confused, too, by the deep sense of melancholy he feels upon looking at her.]
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Ah... Mr. Edgeworth. Hello.
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[He wants, for some reason, to go over and embrace her. He wants to go and to stroke her hair and tell her absurd nonsense - that things will be all right, that she needn't fear anything...He clamps that down as sentimental, unneeded nonsense.]
Do you know how we...got here?
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It's all right. We'll find out.
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