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Who Atem Mutou and OPEN
What Atem reflects after work, sitting all by his lonesome on a bench in the mall.
When Night time?
Where The Salkia Mall, outside the Going Green store.
Warnings Depends on who shows up I guess, but general angst for starters

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C.C. was still freshly sprung into this place, and wandered in it with blank yellow eyes, skirts damp and dripping water, her hair a damp emerald sheet down her back and her baggage wet as well.
Cheese-kun dangled covered in sand in the crook of her left arm as she wandered about the surrounding area, amused.

"..Now where's the Pizza Hut?"

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Atem heard the question, though it nearly didn't penetrate the haze of his rest. But he knew it would be rude to ignore someone if they were speaking to him so he roused himself, blinking open his eyes to clear the fog away.

Leaning back up he looked at the girl. She was soaking, it seemed and he had to arch an eyebrow to that, at least. "You're going to catch cold if you go around like that." It was freezing- perhaps not in the mall, but outside.

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The witch turned her head slowly, staring at the boy with a raised eyebrow. She had just been talking aloud and hadn't expected a reply, let alone a well-kept person.

"Not much choice considering the entrance I was forced to make." She said cooly, dusting off her skirts.

"And my suitcase is soaked so any clothes I have are in the same condition. Have any other suggestions?"

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"Go home and dry off?" He offered. There were appliances in the places, there must have been one of those driers and some towels in the homes.

"It's much more sensible mulling around here and looking for - ... Whatever it is you are looking for." He hadn't quite caught her question, or perhaps it was that he didn't understand what a "Pizza Hut" was.

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"Home? I don't have one, not in my world or this one. " She said as a matter of factly, wringing out more of her hair. "I just arrived here, or didn't my appearance imply as such?" She asked, thinking this boy really had to be out of it not to notice the obvious.

"Never heard of Pizza Hut?" She asked curiously, clearly surprised. "What kind of place is this then?"

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"You should have been assigned one. Check your LP." He can remember being just as out of sorts as this girl when he'd arrived. Though he was a little thankful he hadn't ended up in the lake, now seeing that that was possible. "You should have a device on you that will give you an address and a key to some place." He remarked, though he wondered if she would be missing one as well.

"No, I haven't. And this is an island. You've been taken captive." As Kaiba used the word so very often. "It's strange and unnatural, but I suppose I should tell you to get used to it."

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She did so, blinking. "Asato? Another stranger it seems. " She searched the thing that held it, only to blink as a key fell out. "Apparently they could spare enough to give me these but not how I arrive..thoughtful." She said sardonically, her amber eyes on his.

"Captive? Then who's the captor? The island?" She mused.

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"I think they like to play games with people." He answered honestly, still keeping his eyes on her. She was a strange girl, though that wasn't saying too much. He'd seen a lot of odd people in his time.

"I have no idea. I'm new to all of this and haven't really gathered any useful information just yet. Just that we are here, we are not going to go home if we actively try, death means nothing to this place, and there are events and if you do not do them you will be punished." He listed these things off in a rather monotone way, showing disinterest for all that he had learned.

They were rules- rules in a game that he could, and would play. That was all.

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C.C. shrugged, all too amused. "I seem to keep being involved with people who play games." The immortal remarked, dusting off Cheese-kun next.

"Whoever this person is better cook a decent pizza. " At his remark of death C.C. could only blink. "Hm, it didn't mean anything to me here, so that's a pointless alteration. " Punishments?

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"Life is a game; so to a certain extent, everyone you meet is a player." He smiled, though it was possibly more of a grin. He would never escape his roots, not that he wanted to.

He chose deliberately not to address her obvious remark towards immortality. "There's a line of restaurants down the way from the mall. Though it isn't wise to be traveling alone right now, people are getting taken."

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She chuckled, a rare smirk of amusement on her mouth. "I knew someone who used to think the same way." She replied, only to stare slightly interested.

"Taken?"

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He shrugged to that. "You can only meet so many people before the tendencies and personalities start to blur." That sounded rather depressing, but he said it with a smile.

"Yes, taken. People are being picked up off the street, though for what purpose has yet to be discovered- kidnapped." He finished the sentence with the more operative word.

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"A fact I know too well." She replied sagely, glancing at their surroundings as she blinked.

"Kidnapped is it? Interesting thought. Should you really be out here either?"

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"What would it really matter? If someone were to try and get me in the middle of a mall, at least we'd see who is up to what." If he could provide that much assistance he would be glad rather than upset for whatever dark future would come out of that.

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"Willing to take risks. Certainly commendable, or is it foolishness?" C.C. drawled, sitting on the other free side of the bench.

"Who are you anyway." She mused,resting her legs a bit as she held Cheese-kun, looking up at the sky.

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"Could be both, but as long as it helped someone somewhere, the effort will not have been in vain." He nodded towards her direction, watching her take a seat.

He rested one leg upon the other as he lounged back. "My name is Atem. And you are?"