Animal or Vegetable? [Incomplete, Closed]

[machitobaye]

Characters: Machi Tobaye, Itsuki Koizumi
Setting: Catacombs, Morgue
Time: Day 003, Unknown Afternoon
Summary: Machi finds a morgue, Koizumi finds a morgue, Raile does some backlog because it's been bugging the HELL out of him.
Warnings: Some creepiness.

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[facetooclose]

The boy's Japanese was strained and awkward; Koizumi wasn't surprised. He was a foreigner, after all. If he spoke English, perhaps Koizumi could make this easier on him.

The boy quickly hid the corpse. There was no emotion on his face, but Koizumi couldn't help but feel a bit amused. Was he ashamed to be caught down here and investigating? But Koizumi was down here for the very same reason, so he shouldn't be. In fact, if the boy hadn't shut the body away so decisively, he would have coe forward to look in the other drawers. The fascination made him feel a little ill, but he could rationalize it; they were trapped in this place, and it was only sensible to investigate everything thoroughly. Besides, he had never seen a morgue. (4 years ago, he wouldn't have been this fascinated. But he brushed the thought aside; there was no point in thinking in what-ifs, and 4 years had been a very long time for him.)

"Koizumi Itsuki," he said. "It's a pleasure to meet you." He spoke in English now, and hoped that the boy would understand better. "You are...?"