Mini-event: Awakening 2

[harmonizemods]

Who: Chloe, Kisa, ensemble NPC cast.
Where: The Lab.
When: Thursday, April 20th.
What: The team always needs more members.

The call came again, but for far few people this time, and conveniently after the club both shared.

Saiga Kisa and Chloe Abendroth were summoned to the main meeting hall, for reasons unelaborated upon and unknown to both. The staffer who'd called them vanished before any questions could be asked.

And another odd pair was left to meet their fate.

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[harmonizenpc]

"Keep them. I don't expect an emergency, and I hope one never comes, but you will need to be prepared in case the worst happens."

The blank-eyed nurse--Ishichi--approached as Yachiyo was providing her explanation. She held out another of the Evokers to Chloe, this one actually bearing her surname on it as Kisa's did hers.

"I'll need to take that back," she said, voice as deadpan as her face. "It's a test unit. Here's yours." A short pause, during which Ishichi stared up at her a little longer and more intensely than was likely entirely comfortable... and then she walked off once the exchange was made.

[fassade]

The German simply nodded, taking her Evoker and slipping it into the waistband of her pants since she had nowhere else to put it for the moment. So, the other unit was a test unit? Inwardly she was glad that she had accepted that one. Tests had a habit of not always going as planned... Chloe's cold eyes met Ishichi's blank ones for only a moment before she turned back to Kisa.

Chloe waited, her head tilted very slightly, wondering if Kisa had any questions for their 'benevolent teachers'. The German's breath was coming out a bit raspier than usual, but she tried not to let on just how this ordeal had effected her as she questioned Kisa in a low tone.

"Need help to the dorms?"

The question was innocent enough.

[suiseimushi]

Kisa was trying to brave her way through it as well, if the set of her shoulders and the small smile she offered Chloe were any indication, but she could feel everything weighing on her, exhaustion included, in a way she couldn't completely hide.

"I'll manage, but thank you." There was a slight pause, perhaps weightier than she intended it to be, as she glanced aside for a moment, then back to Chloe. "But it might be better to walk back together, even so." There was something inside her that didn't want to be alone right now, not yet. Even if her company was the gaijin she'd always been awkward around, and even if--

--but that was exactly what she was trying to get away from.

[fassade]

At the refusal, the German nodded grimly. If Kisa thought she could handle it, she wouldn't dispute it. She had turned to leave when Kisa looked away, wondering if it was because of the company or because she actually could handle it. Then the shorter girl started speaking again.

The German froze for only a second when she heard what Kisa had said, turning back to look at her. If Chloe had less restraint than she did, Kisa would have seen a look of almost bemusement that the German felt. That certainly was a first, someone wanting to actually walk with her. Yet with what else had happened today, stranger things could happen.

Chloe's face softened slightly before she nodded. She made to walk for the door, stumbling slightly as she did so.