Necessary Exploration [Active/Open]

[comeswithpants]

Who: Tim Drake and you
Where: Basically anywhere
When: Day 001, late morning
What: Tim explores/investigates some more!
Warnings: N/A

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[bunny_is_better]

Over the course of the past days - she had kept track with her phone, which couldn't even get a line through to Soul Society - Rukia had explored many of the open areas in the house. She had been alternately impressed, creeped out, and baffled; par for the course, really. The chill in the air had not abated, nor had any efforts at warding against it been successful, and the feeling of being watched was getting stronger as time wore on

[comeswithpants]

Tim had maybe been too distracted by looking for details-- any kinds of clues that he could find, toward the mystery of this house here-- to really notice someone coming around the corner. He'd heard her, yes, but his skill were evidently a bit rusty if he wasn't able to react instantly.

Tim was just vaguely startled at the whole thing, but he managed to keep his ground. He stepped back instinctively, almost tensing as his eyes travelled downward to the smaller girl on the ground in front of him, who was now apologising.

"No-- I'm sorry," Tim said earnestly and openly, reaching out to offer a hand, to help her to her feet. "I was distracted, I guess. It's my fault."

[bunny_is_better]

"Since it appears neither of us is going to let the other take the blame," Rukia said wryly as she took the offered hand, "let's say we're both at fault and let it go at that." His grip was surprisingly strong for a human of his apparent age, and now that she looked more closely, she could see the signs of martial arts training.

Back on her feet, she dusted her robes off quickly, raising a cloud of dust with a distasteful scowl. "I've never seen a place with so much dust," she remarked after the few seconds that took her to accomplish.

Momentarily at a loss as to what to do, she waited for the boy to make the next move. Mentally, she chided herself; if she was going to be stuck in this place, with these people, she was going to have to learn to interact with them...

[comeswithpants]

Tim laughed quietly as he helped pull her up to her feet, smiling a little wryly himself. "All right, I can go for that," he said. He could feel her studying him, a little, but he didn't let himself be bothered by it too much-- it was a fairly natural reaction, all things considered.

He nodded, and simply said, "I guess no one's bothered to clean in a bit." A partly joking tone, while he glanced around them, but when he turned back to face her properly, his expression was more serious. "Have you been here long?"

[bunny_is_better]

"Unless I miss my guess, there hasn't been anyone in this place in a long time who has felt the need to clean up," she said, folding her arms. "I've been here a couple of normal days, according to my phone. There are a lot of closed doors that can't be opened, it feels like someone's constantly watching, and no one can seem to figure out how to get out of here. Not the most pleasant home I've ever been in."

[comeswithpants]

"True," Tim said with a grimace. There really weren't any signs of people showing up before them. The complete disuse of the house as whole... well, Tim didn't get the feeling that there were people around here.

"Yeah, it's pretty weird," Tim agreed. But he'd not felt all of that discomfort. He frowned, but he didn't push it. Just made mental note for later. "I guess I've been here for a few days too. Hard to keep track," he said. A partial lie. While he didn't have a phone or anything to keep track of time or date, he did have a pretty good sense of time.