Night 59: Main Hallway, 1-Center

[train_tracer]

[from here]Just like last night, Vino turned the bend to find that he was first in the main hallway again. He couldn't decide if he preferred it or not. Patience wasn't his favorite virtue, but he supposed he'd have to wait. The two meeting places he would have to be at were right next to each other, right? So that was fine. If he had to wait a

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[ultimagi]

Finally: the answer. It lit up inside her with the same sort of intensity as the bright flare against her eyes. He'd struck her as different from the other few patients she'd met in this institute, and on some level he had struck some resonance with her -- she who could recall no past, no friends, no family. This, she thought, must have been what she had known all along but could not name.

As Edgar cleaved through what remained of the burned, disintegrating webbing, the girl had stilled in her struggling against the binding, her mind racing. He and Locke both knew about her magic, and told similar stories as to how her power had been used in their world. Her body sagged momentarily when Edgar finally cut her free, but aside from a staggered moment of lost balance, the girl paid it no mind. Her arms sank to her sides, but her eyes were wide, searching Edgar's face in the returning dark.

If he was the same as her, why hadn't he said anything? Why did he keep insisting she needed to discover in time what reverberated so strongly

[ultimagi]

There was still a searching, curious measure to her eyes when she met Edgar's look; while it was true the girl understood very little about herself, at least she could work out her own thoughts most of the time. Just like everyone else, Edgar was a person separate from her, and far more complicated than she was equipped to understand.

It was likely she was missing some cues, some implications a normal girl would understand innately, but she was not normal. If that Sesshoumaru were telling the truth, then there was the chance she was not entirely human to begin with.

Was she ever to find answers to anything? Her gaze dropped. "Okay," she said, for it was all the sound her throat could manage.

[girlsandgadgets]

Met with Terra's quiet acceptance, coupled with the lowering of her eyes, Edgar simply nodded as he walked past her, ignoring the fevered feeling of his own body as it worked against him. His doubts were doing that well enough on their own.

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