[Hikaru returns to his room, wondering if Kaoru is around.]

Kaoru, are you here?

[He took the leash off Chanel, watching her run around excitedly]

I'm back!

Guess what, Marina! I made cookies!

[Panning the camera down to show seven separate plates of sugar cookies. The keenly trained eye will notice that on one plate, the cookies are about twice as big as all the others and stuck together.]

Unless you're Terezi and friends, it's first come, first serve! Come to the shelter's kitchen~

[Tamaki is at the butterfly pavillion right now, just watching the scenery and thinking about his plans for the Host Club. First and formost, he'd have to get more members. With so many girls in the prison just three hosts just wouldn't do.]

Hello, denizens of Marina Asylum. My name is Tamaki Suoh, and I am the soon to be king of Marina's first Host Club, a club dedicated to entertaining women in our free time. If you recall I sent out invitations to join me for a meeting pertaining to this, however I fell ill and was unable to hold it. I am sorry to those of you who were interested in attending.

I hope that there will be many of you interested in joining this club and helping me in my mission to make the lovely maidens here happy. If you wish to join please tell me or come join me under the butterfly pavillion where we may talk.

Oh where, oh where has my little Sebastian gone? Oh where, oh where could he be? Sebastian~? I have a new camera and want to take some sexy shots of you! Where are you? Hiding again? Don’t deprive me of that beautiful face and those stunning eyes! Oh, just thinking about it—

—Sebastian? Okay, this isn’t funny! Come out, come out, wherever you are! You know I’ll find you! I’ll search to the end of the earth and the bottom of the sea, Sebastian dearest!

...wait a minute. [A lengthy pause. Let's see, what do we have here? A dome that looks like it's underwater, a communicator, and - the next sound heard will be Grell screeching.]

NO!!! Not again! I've been good, I swear! I've been doing almost all my assignments and reporting almost every incident! I... but... why!? Why am I here again!? This isn't fair!!! That bastard William did this, didn't he? William with his cold eyes and sexy gaze...

[Sob]

[The voice coming across the communicator sounds very tired.]

Mathematics class will be canceled for today. That is all.

[Click.]

[A metallic octahedron-like figure appears via a video broadcast in what seems to be the Common Room of the Shelter. Although not humanoid in the slightest, the center of it seems to be a red lens 'eye' which moves slightly to focus.

The odd figure addresses the camera with an arrogant masculine voice.]

Acumen, huh?

[Shutters cover the red 'eye', and the machine turns slightly away.] Hmph, never heard of you. But such an introduction was completely unnecessary. Especially during my tea time.

[The shutters retract, showing the eye again, which turns again to focus on the camera once again. The entire shape tilts up and back slightly, accompanied by a noise that sounds something like a hydraulic lift.] To think you could arrest the greatest Brain Colony to live! How useless! I don't intend to be bow to your foolish "authority" and allow myself to be captured! Mwahahaha!!

You must be with Nerval to be so stupid. Isn't that so?

[He waits, briefly, for a response that doesn't come.]

Hmph, did your communications get all tied? You must be beside yourself in fear at my bold and powerful countenance!

Well, whatever. In any case, next time, tell him to send himself rather than some upstart no one has heard of!

Or maybe they will be no next time...As you'll be feeling the power of my Soul Shouts! Mwhahahaha!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Turning his eye away from the camera, he to where another communications window should be, at least to him. It, of course, isn't there.]


Withered Leaf! Prepare to fire!


...Withered Leaf?


[He's been distracted up until now, but it slowly sets in that his location has changed a little. He slowly rotates back to the camera. The shutters close and open rapidly thrice. His usual room is gone and replaced with...something else.

Leopard's tone quickly turns from arrogant to furious and the gap between his upper and lower shells narrows.]

...WHAT!?

MY BEAUTIFUL FORM!? MY LEOPARD CANNON!?

MY...MY...GOLDEN ORBS!?

[Are those sweat drops on his form?]

YOU BASTARD! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?!?

Blah blah blah... There's got to be a mistake. Blah Blah who's in charge..

I'll make them pay, blah blah blah...

I'm a good person blah blah blah!

[Sigh]

Can't even find something new to say instead of going off just like about ninety percent of the people that are here. Gee. If we could be out of here, don't you think we would be by now? Do you even read what's on the screen?

Hikaru! I must talk to you about something!

We will be starting a Host Club here, and until the others arrive we will need more members. I want you to be on a look out for potential members and direct them to me immediately!

[It's well into the evening and Kaoru is still out. More like he's still at the library. Hearing Hikaru earlier makes him thing that maybe there's been a step backwards in his brother's progression. It's really hard to judge some of this simply because of one factor they had at home and one that's not here. Their argument back home never really had been settled and it's impossible for it to be fully resolved until that little factor appeared here, which is not really something Kaoru wants. Yet at the same time he does because really... He really has the nastier personality of the two of them. It would make things easier...

And he then wouldn't have to be sitting here, a book open at one of the tables. Kaoru had been reading it, really. But he soon lost interest in it halfway through and instead had been doodling/plotting in a notebook. His expression is clearly distracted and he's tapping the pencil on the notebook. Tap tap tap tap.

He just doesn't know anymore what he can do to really help Hikaru. It had been pretty clear before but now it just seems he's run out of routes to take...

A sigh and he pushes the thing from him, swinging an arm around the back of the chair and leaning.]

What now...

Where..

..where did my buddy go!?

I wanted to play some more! ARGH! I HATE this place even more! [For some reason, like always, he laughs.]

That was seriously one of the most annoying days I have ever experienced.

Tch, I hope they're really all gone.

And good riddance, too!

[It's the usual gestures that guides him along: the push of his glasses; the snap closed of a notebook; the scraping of a pen across paper. This place is foreign and for the span of two one-thousands, his eyes are shut -- it's not fear, because he's never afraid (lies), and it's not confusion, because he's never confused (lies, lies).]

[At the end of the moment, his eyes open again, and he breathes in deep from the world around him; the new world, inexplicable and utterly, wholly foreign.]

[He wonders where he can get a decent meal around here and begins to walk.]

(OOC: Kyouya Ootori from Ouran! Come annoy him.)

Question!~

What sort of books does everyone like to read in their spare time?

[Josak is at the recreation center. It's been a while since he really applied himself to his training, and after speaking to Conrad, he decided he should make the time. The physical activity is always fun. So you might find this big guy practicing some aerobatics or working through a few routines with his sword.

But he also has something else to do. Like keep Jennifer from getting too involved with all of the more crazy people she meets here.]

Hmm.~ You know, Jennifer, that idea you gave me just won't leave me alone. Would anyone else be interested in a fashion boutique?

[You can see a smiling Euphie and a floating, purple ball next to her. It's clear from the background they are in the park.]

Hello everyone.

Hello! Hello!

[Giggles.] I guess Morgan wanted to say hello too. [Smiles] I was thinking of making a request to Acumen, but I wanted to get everyone's feedback first. I'd like to request playground equipment for a section of the park. I thought it would be nice since we have some younger inmates here and because you're never too old to enjoy a swing set or a slide. Does anyone have any preferences on types things?

Oh! I have a request for Jun, Zelda, Jalyt, and Jennifer if you all have a moment to talk.

So dis be de second night now. While de change is good for me, I'm guessin' it ain't de same for a lot a' you.

If it happen again, you give me a call, ja? If you don't mind de gore, I can handle a few monstuhs. And... it's kinduva bonus for me. Win-win.

Name's Cielo.

[Feed the hungry demon, boys and girls. He'll eat raptors and protect you at the same time!]

Dammit, it's hopeless! How could I have let this happen? This is the worst!

[Kid had a little run in with the raptors last night. Kid's hair got clipped on one side of his head during the fight, and not the other. Kid is now crying over the network because of this fact, even though the difference isn't noticeable to anyone who doesn't hold a magnifying glass up to his hair.]

[ There’s the hum of static over the communicator before the audio turns on, with the sound of someone breathing heavily on the other end. After a moment or two, however, the voice of a young girl rings out. She sounds frightened, and she’s just mumbling to herself for a second. ] Hey, what are you talking about...? This can't possibly be true... I won't believe it...

[ The video turns on now, to show a young girl with strikingly green hair and green eyes. ] Satoshi? Satoshi? Are you there? [ Sounds hopeful, and has an almost smile on her face. But it falters almost immediately, to be replaced with an undoubtedly angry look. Sounding furious, ] No. That isn't possible... Satoshi never did anything wrong.

--This can't be possible. I can't be in prison. You're lying. I won't believe you.

[She's already bored of the arcade. There are only so many rounds of DDR a girl can go, after all.]

[Well, that, and--this place is fun, but it's not home. It's not even Ibekukuro or Ginza. Staring up and out now, eyes wide and perhaps a bit more blue than usual, watery. Not that she's afraid, though. No, not in a new adventure like this. Being afraid is for--other people.]

I'm bored. [Almost a whine, but not quite. Shoulders rise. Fine, DDR. You win.]

Do a little daaaaance.

[Suddenly, more demanding,] OBEY. [GIR laughs while he orders some angry bots to escort every single one of you to one of the parks. Fighting back will only result in punishment...and believe him, you don't want to know what GIR has cooked up for you then.

While you walk you may notice that dawn has suddenly become night again, the lighting is still working though it's all very...vibrantly colored and disco-y--maybe a strobe light here and there--and that the once peaceful silence has turned into blaring techno.

GIR starts to sniffle happily.]

Y-you're all so beautiful.



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