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[agebeforeanger]

Who: Lena and Hisoka
When: Tuesday evening
Rating: Probably PG. There's children involved, after all...
Warnings: ... none to speak of?
Summary: Hisoka needs somewhere to live. Lena is, as usual, on a Devil's Nest terminal, doing paperwork.

The Devil's Nest's main room was fairly quiet at this time of night - it was too late for most people to be

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Hisoka had spent the first two weeks of his stay at Purgatorium in what shelter he could find - but he could only stand so many nights sleeping in what moldy, bug-infested, abandoned rooms he could find. Not that any established housing on the lower level would be that much better, but at least he could be assured the building wouldn't collapse around him during the night. And now that Makubex had found work for him, he finally had some money to secure him a bed, in the very least

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Lena jumped violently at the door's creak, backing directly into the terminal with a thump. How... pleasant. She sighed, startled blush fading into impassivity as the boy's words registered. "... You are- yes?"

Her voice had its usual cadence under stress, slipping back and forth between open emotion and her mask of apathy in a way that sounded almost like stuttering. He didn't look like he'd be dangerous. Though taller and several years older, he looked... more like her brother than anything; too-skinny and wide-eyed. Which meant that this was probably one of the newer arrivals that came in every few nights. (Probably, maybe; he had said that this was a... potentially dangerous place.)

Nonetheless, he had the disheveled appearance of someone who'd been outside for a few days, in the abandoned buildings that comprised most of the lower level. How could she be angered by that?

She slid her papers farther from sight surreptitiously, both because of the notes and the half-erased drawings.

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Hisoka's chest clenched as the girl's surprise slammed into his mind. Dammit. Why couldn't they have taken the empathy along with the healing? The emotion ebbed away, replaced by suspicion, simmering at the edges of Hisoka's empathic perception. With Muraki and who knew what else running around this place, she had good reason.

"I'm Hisoka Kurosaki," he ventured, trying his best to look non-threatening. "I was looking for a room...?"

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Lena paused, finally turning to pick up the papers, and clutched them to her chest with a faint sense of exasperation. She didn't recall where the empty rooms were, though they appeared in the oddest of places, so she couldn't simply give directions.

He did look... disconcertingly like her brother, with that look on his face. She wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not; Perin could be frustrating, but... that was brothers for you, she supposed. She ignored the homesickness which that thought caused. "I shall... I'll find one," she said, more quietly. "Several of the residents can be... disinclined to appreciate intrusion."

She turned quickly to walk down the hall, trying to ignore how quickly Hisoka would catch up. She hated being short, not so much for its own sake, but for how much younger it made her seem. "... You have been informed of the essentials of the situation?"