Lost and Found

[ijk_mno]

*Obviously, when you're four years old and can't find the person you're looking for, and can't quite remember why you're looking for the person you're looking for to begin with but don't have anything better to do, the way to proceed is to run at breakneck speed through the hallways in circles, up and down stairs and around kitchens. You're bound

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[curtainwizard]

[Light is heading for the top floor library, checking over doors - looking out for new signs, markings, and seeing what's shifted since he was last out here. He's quiet, and so when he hears the tumble of small feet from around one of the corridor's corners, he knows whoever it is hasn't heard him.

He steps to one side, so as not to be careened into.]

[curtainwizard]

[The sudden, cutesy childishness doesn't fool Light, not for one second. He remembers that face, that tone - or ones not so very different.]

Is that so.

This could have been easier if you'd told me you were lost to start with.

[An adult L wouldn't have made that mistake - or might have made it deliberately. It's filed away.]

[ijk_mno]

I know where I am. I just don't know where the kitchen is.

[curtainwizard]

It isn't far from here. I can accompany you, if you want.

[Hidden implications: will you trust me? what do you really know about me? what did your mother teach you?]

[ijk_mno]

Okay.