Then the reality stabs [Complete]

[lingeringscent]

Characters: Mio Amakura, Sekai Saionji, ask before joining
Setting: Starts in the pool room - moves through the pantry, backtracks and end in the public bathrooms.
Time: Day 006, dawn
Summary: Sekai becomes Mio's temporary investigation partner. Oh boy.
Warnings: Corpses.

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[lefttotheworld]

Sekai had had...a long night, to say the least.

So she was incredibly grateful for the dawn coming, light filtering into the house as the electricity came back on - even if she did not, in fact, appreciate the shaking on the house as the two islands collided. She'd gone exploring, after that, looking through the house, to see if anything...weird had happened, and looking around at places she hadn't been, or couldn't go the night before. It was probably mostly by coincidence that she'd found the stairs leading through into...completely new areas. A huge ballroom, a hallway that made her feel sick - and, finally, a room that seemed moist and humid...with a girl falling onto the floor.

Sekai winced as she heard the cry, and glanced up as she entered the room - she gave only a quick look at most of the rest of the room, for the time being, putting most of her attention to the other girl, for now. That was...Mio, right?

"..are you okay?" she asked, quietly, moving closer and hesitantly reaching out a hand to the other girl.

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Mio jumped let out another little gasp at the sudden voice before calming down as she saw it was. Sekai...she recognized her from the other day. She'd seemed nice enough. Mio nodded slowly as she took the older girl's hand, shakily getting to her feet. She was probably visibly trembling a little. Even if she'd seen corpses before - more and more since she came here - it was still an unsettling sight, and she didn't have her father dear friend here to offer any comfort any longer. She no longer even had the hopes of finding her sister to hold onto

[lefttotheworld]

Sekai watched the other girl with a little bit of a frown. Obviously she was not okay, and she wondered what it might be...but for now she didn't ask, as the girl said she was okay. She could pry later, right? But for now she'd let the subject rest~

"Okay..." she said, as she let go of the hand, watching Mio, a bit. She really did sound upset, about something - and soon it became evident as to what. She turned her eyes to the side, to look at the pool...and just barely caught sight of something in the water.

She let out a gasp, and stepped back, but...it made her feel sick. Sick and horrible...and somehow it seemed almost...surreal, to her. Like it meant something. One hand started to move toward the cloth covered knife on her leg (fastened tightly with part of a blanket), before she hesitated, and reached it up to grab Mio's shoulder instead.

"...c'mon, Mio. Let's look somewhere else."

[lingeringscent]

If Mio noticed where Sekai's hand was moving to, she showed no sign of it. She was more concerned with the way she'd stepped back, ready to grab her if she started to fall as the teenager herself had. Fortunately she didn't, that was...a small relief. She nodded to the comment of looking elsewhere. She didn't want to stay here. "...y-yeah

[lefttotheworld]

Sekai was quiet as they moved through the hallway, trying to keep herself balanced as the structure threw her off and made her feel somewhat sick. It was like something you might experience at a science centre, almost...but she really didn't remember how you were supposed to deal with something like that. So she remained quiet - sharing Mio's silent sentiment that this hall was much better than the previous room. She glanced up, following Mio's gaze down the other portion of the hall. She hadn't investigated that way, yet, either, so...

She nodded a little bit to the other girl, agreeing with her body language before voicing it. "Okay, then. That sounds good."