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[payback]

[It is sort of hilariously awful how things can spin so terribly out of control so quickly under the right circumstances. The Port usually seems to set those circumstances up, too

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[stoicloyalty]

[ While she has not lived in the boarding-house long, and she has yet to memorise the exact tones of her housemates' voices, this face is familiar enough to her that Chane would recognise it, small and wailing as it is. Immediately the whole post, from the second line, throws her-- she jolts and has to quickly cross out her mistakes on the page before she can reply, blinking and checking the wobbling pattern of bricks behind the child's head. ]

Rin?

Answer me.

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[preavenger]

[There's a long and frightened pause before Rin sounds out the content of Chane's text carefully, out loud. She remembers knowing how to do this easily but she's too scared to fall back into the reflex of reading again.]

... Chane? [An audible swallow.] It's me!

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[stoicloyalty]

[ As Rin repeats the words back at her, she thinks of that child she had saved before; how she had brought her to the ones who planned to kill her, against both of their wills; she frowns, shuts her eyes briefly to dispel the images and think, only to open them and press her pen against paper a tad too strongly for simple writing. ]

Rin. Get indoors, quickly.

[ More than anything, she is worried for her precious housemate. ]

[preavenger]

I dunno - there's all these grown-ups around - [Even as a child, Rin has enough sense not to let any old stranger take her somewhere.] I don't want to go with them-!

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[deservesabone]

- Rin? [oh Christ, they still haven't caught that Ripley lady? Jesus...] Hey, where are you?

[preavenger]

I - I dunno... [asdkjf she just looks scared. :( Staring down, perplexedly, at the NV.]

[deservesabone]

Can you look around, tell me if there are any buildings 'round you? If there are, look for signs or names. [he wonders if he should get Madara]

[preavenger]

Th-there's a building behind me... [Sniveling.] I, there's a sign on the corner, but people...

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[atrumcanis]

[She's scared, that's obvious enough. But he can't keep a note of amusement out of his voice, slight though it is.]

You've shrunk! Are people still doing that, I thought we were shook of your titchy--

Where are you, anyway?

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[preavenger]

I-i-it's not the lady - [The word stretches into a strangled wail, cut off by an immense, dramatic breath.] I don't know where I am!

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[atrumcanis]

Any landmarks? Any things that I ought to look for as I wander the city in search of a tiny version of you? You will be difficult to spot, I assume, but I've always enjoyed a challenge.

And keep your hair on, would you, you aren't lost forever.

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[preavenger]

I'm in the city... everything's too tall. [Choked up, horrors!]

... What's your name? [He's familiar, but she's discombobulated. It's hard to remember.]

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[zealouspeter]

Hey! How old are you?

[and can you still read?]

[preavenger]

[She takes a few minutes to sound out his words, stammering a little. She's learning, but this is too disturbing for the skill to come easy - and when she figures it out she doesn't answer his question anyway. She's a bit out of her head at the moment, which might excuse her question:]

Who are you?

[zealouspeter]

Shiroe.

[maybe she understood, maybe she did. (maybe she remembered, maybe she didn't.) he'd find out.]

Who are you?

[preavenger]

I'm Rin! [Still sniffling.] What do you want?

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[meteor_heart]

Rin?! Don't go anywhere, I'll come get you. [Tifa's already moving for the door, grabbing her shoes.] Do you know where you are?

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[preavenger]

[All of these people who know her! It's quite overwhelming, for a little girl still trying to make sense of what just happened to her and where she is.]

U-uh, no, I'm around a corner... who're you?

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[meteor_heart]

[That stops Tifa, dragging her upright with a start to peer in confusion into the NV.] It's me...Tifa. You don't recognize me?