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Who: Cissnei and Kaiba Seto
Where: Arcade
What: Blah blah blah talking over most people's heads....Glitter and Duel Monsters, maybe?
When: Tuesday Night
Warnings: In which you find out Cissnei is the only woman ever to hate chocolate and why.
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Where: Arcade
What: Blah blah blah talking over most people's heads....Glitter and Duel Monsters, maybe?
When: Tuesday Night
Warnings: In which you find out Cissnei is the only woman ever to hate chocolate and why.
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"Cissnei," he said in as cool a tone he could manage as he stood up like nothing had happened at all. "A little bit earlier than I expected, or I would have been out front."
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For such a reason why, became a bit more apparent when Cissnei reached into her jacket pocket and produced a flash drive, the work of the last few weeks in which she had been relatively silent on The NETWORK. "I thought you would find this interesting."
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"Is this from the NETWORK...or something else completely?" He asked, all business. One hand was already reaching for his laptop and turning it towards him while the other took the flash drive carefully.
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The files worked nicely enough to distract him, though. Just from a quick glance, Kaiba could tell that some of it mirrored his own notes, some of it more organized, some of it not. Seeing the measure of people in graph form though...it just made things a little more urgent.
"It is not something I hadn't thought about myself..." he said coolly, eyes trained on the data. "And it's not just the people. Since we 'returned' to this place it's been a long gap since the next occurrence that affected the whole Island. Reaction times have been slower. Even my punishment was shorter compared to others I've had."
He glanced back at Cissnei. "It is why I wanted the bombs to go off when they did, I will admit."
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A pause from the redhead, then-"We might be in a position right now where pushing harder may lead us to the answers we have been looking for." There is something in her voice that might indicate that she had a idea of what they should do. Such was true, however, Cissnei was looking for a way to approach it with the other.
Hearing that he would have to work with Jing, she knew, would not go over so well. So maybe it would be best to conveniently 'forget' to tell him about that part until they were on their way.
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Carefully, he skimmed the data, smirking slightly when most of it had confirmed his informal notations. Really most of what she was doing was impressing upon him that he really needed to organize his own notes. It all made sense in his head, but it probably wouldn't make much sense if he had showed them to anyone else like she was now. He made a mental note to do so later, then turned his attention back to her.
"Pushing is what the explosions were intended to do..." he commented absently, thinking through possibilities. Her tone certainly indicated she had one. "But it never hurts to add more pressure. What is your intent, Cissnei?"
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"However...Recently" Or should she say, five months ago. But that part she would omit out. "-I found a area that leads to the underground and there is something different about it than what you would expect from caverns."
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"..I had thought the mountains were worth exploring," Kaiba murmured, contemplating the information. "This place seems to follow a sort of twisted..simplistic logic on occasion. Almost how you would play a game. The secrets are always in the most visually noticeable place."
He glanced at Cissnei intently. "So if it is not a cave, it could be anything from the missing utility plants to our captors' 'base'," he said, prompting her to continue.
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She locked hazel eyes on the younger man. "You would need to come down and see it for yourself." Cissnei does, in fact, have a very good idea of what kind of near sacred ground the cavern was from being there with Jing. However she also knows that bringing up such would just put Kaiba off from the idea.
Oh, finding the balance.
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"So I will be going as soon as I have time," he said. It would probably be tomorrow, in fact, now that he knew about where the cavern was. "Unless there is something else I need to know?"
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Well technically, it was impossible to get into unless Jing was there. But she was getting to that point, honestly.
"I can take you there on Friday. I have other things going on until then."
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"All I really need to know is whether or not there is something down there that is going to try and kill me."
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"But as I said, Friday." She folded her arms and looked at the man. "It will likely be a full day's trip, so I will be at the park at Six AM and leaving shortly after." If Kaiba showed or not, the unspoken said, was his own problem. She wasn't going to attempt to coddle or bend to what he wanted on this one.
After all, there wasn't much he would find if he went on his own besides a huge drop.
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Still, his hand shifted to his computer to make a note for Friday. It would do him no good to be forced to accept the assistance after all and then forget all about it. Not that it was very likely for something of this importance, but it never hurt to be prepared.
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Lie. Lie lie lie of course, but getting him to even go with the mention of Jing wouldn't really happen if he knew beforehand. She was playing to what she knew best about both men, really.
Cissnei pulled off her Jacket in demonstration, draping it over one arm and pulling up her sleeve on the other to show him the bracer with the dark green orb of Materia on it. "I'd let you have it to take yourself, but it is unlikely that you can cast it."
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