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[marrymarajade]

Characters: Ben (marrymarajade ), Paladin (mythgravenblade ), Reed (heretic_hamlet ), and Rain (notpissedoff )
Date/Time: April 26th
Location: The Elevator
Rating: Depends.
Summary: The fourth floor calls. These four, however unwittingly, answer.

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[mythgravenblade]

Unlike many, it seemed, Paladin wasn't having troubles with sleep--no more than usual...though his dreams were no longer being shared, they still sometimes left him jerking awake...then not wanting to go back to sleep.

Last night had been unremarkable, and now, Paladin simply walked to the elevator, talking with Reed. It had been a while since either of them had visited the bookstore, and as Reed was interested in perhaps finding more books by one "Shakespeare"...why not?

There was something familiar about the cloaked man by the elevator...but Paladin couldn't quite place it, and decided not to fret much on it while waiting for the car to come.

[heretic_hamlet]

He needed the reading material... it wasn't as though he could spend his nights sleeping. Try though he might, he found himself unable to fall asleep- and, indeed, hardly even exhausted beyond a mild drowsiness, in spite of all of his efforts to relax. At least, he seemed to be spared any other symptoms.

For now, anyway. The tea helped keep anything else at bay. And when the tea stopped helping, the coffee helped instead. He made a note to pick up a cup while they were in the marketplace.

The rain was invigorating enough, in spite of the cold, and he nodded a hello to the cloaked figure by the elevator as he stepped into waiting beside he and Paladin. ...And gave more than a cursory glance towards the face beneath the hood.

Not who he was expecting... though Reed wasn't sure who he was expecting. How odd. He returned to idly waiting.

[notpissedoff]

The long, sleepless nights were really starting to wear on Rain. He could sleep perfectly well during daylight hours, and had taken to sneaking quick naps between clients out of necessity, but come nightfall he found himself inexplicably and unnaturally wide awake. Having read and re-read most of the books he owned, he had spent the past few nights just walking aimlessly around Edensphere to pass the time.

The rain had him wandering up to the first floor last night, where the branches of the Tree provided slightly more shelter than they did on the islands. Still, as he made his way back to the Spa in the morning to catch a bit of sleep before he had to start work, Rain was wetter and colder than he would have preferred. A hot shower and a nap were definitely in order.

The elevator arrived just as he reached it, the doors sliding open with a ding, and he spared barely a glance at the others who had been waiting as he stepped in.

[marrymarajade]

He'd sensed all three of these people before. Paladin worked at the Clinic too, Ben knew. He really didn't know any of them beyond that. He nodded at them.

One of them made eye contact for a few seconds. Ben returned it calmly, feeling something questioning that had been rising fade again.

When the elevator came, he stationed himself against one wall and let his hood down. The floor was wet, he noticed, but not all that muddy. It must have been cleaned recently.

[mythgravenblade]

"Does anyone wish to head further?" Paladin asked--when they entered the elevator, he wound up by the button panel--currently only the indicator for the City Without Walls was lit up.

Other than that, though, he had nothing to do but settle against the wall and continue the conversation with poor, insomniac Reed. He'd noted how Ben (as he could see properly with his hood down) seemed to strike him oddly, but only filed the information away. Even if it was worth remarking on, it wasn't worth remarking on here.