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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[machitobaye]

Machi stared at the map for several moments before taking it, light blue eyes flicking up to glance at Koizumi before going back down to study the paper. Machi was not the most skilled at reading maps--he wasn't particularly good at reading anything that wasn't music, to be honest, but maps were almost as bad as words... it took him a bit to realise that the incomprehensible boxes he was staring at were supposed to be a map at all. The corners and margins were entirely covered in notes, to his vexation--the back, too; it was as though once someone learned to read and write easily they somehow couldn't stop. He struggled to at least read some of the tightly written text before becoming frustrated and shoving the paper back at the older boy crossly, having gained a few hastily read words and a general idea of what he considered was the really important information: namely, what the heck he'd just been handed, as well as what this Kouzumi Itsuki was doing down here in such an inappropriate place, other than appearing behind him without warning and scaring the crap out of him.

"Really you are try...?" Machi's voice was frankly incredulous. Why...? How would it help? If this diagramming (it make Machi think of his miserable battles with middle school algebra) was what the older boy considered 'exploration,' Machi could make no claim to such a pretentious word. "Me, I just am... eh... look, see what is... see what is down, because this is... this down is not being here before." He responded with equal apparent readiness--it was slower, yes, and definitely struggling, but it wasn't presented to seem nearly as evasive as it actually was.