[It's impossible to tell where Nina is. There are no windows, just some dust lights. The computers Carmen stole have been ripped apart, and there is metal and circuitry lying around, as well as welding materials, when Nina comes to.]

[Carmen is sitting at a wooden table, her face shadowed, going through information on a laptop, looking impatient.]

[Nina's wrists are tied, but not tight. She doesn't want to harm the girl. She needs her, after all.]

[ Euphemia tries for a cheerful tone, but something in her voice is off. ]

I'm so glad that everyone is safe and sound-- I... um... I was worried about a lot of you. Last night really does just seem like a nightmare, doesn't it? And Sentience is kind of amazing, being able to fix so much in what seems like such little time.

It's strange to say it, but I think I'm getting used to this place. It isn't a terrible place at all.

[ filtered from Carmen ]
[ Euphemia's voice drops into sounding so very sick ]
I need help. A... a friend of mine was kidnapped. By a woman named Carmen Sandiego. She took Nina, Nina Einstein, because she has skills she needs. I don't understand why she'd do that. She said that she wouldn't hurt her, but-- she...

I need to find miss Sandiego.

Day 7. A week, just like that. It's been the longest week I've ever experienced. Time seems to go by really slow here. I guess that's expected with everything I've been lacking.

[Hikaru sighs, realizing that every time he thinks it's getting easier to be without everyone, it doesn't. To go from not letting anyone into his life, Kaoru's life, ever, being sheltered, to being stuck having to be with all these strangers... it's proven to be difficult even a week later.

He just really misses Kaoru, Haruhi... Kaoru... Haruhi...

Thoughts like these only upset him, and it was rather apparent as he put his hands to his head as he became flustered. Oh he was just so moody sometimes.]

It's just not fair! I get it; it was nice of Sentience to fix everything and help everyone, but I don't care about that! I just want to go home and be with people who matter...

[ he wakes up, blinking up at an unfamiliar ceiling. The strangeness wakes him more fully, and he jumps to his feet, only slightly wobbly. He's standing in the corridor he had escaped to after the shelter roof caved in...but he does not remember falling asleep there. He would never do such an inelegant thing as sleep on the floor. ]

[ he spends some time fastidiously smoothing his coat and fluffing his hair back up into a semblance of normalcy. Doing so reminds him of the state of his coat, and he scowls faintly. He'll have to do something about that right away. There's no use returning to his room for now, the door is locked and the key hidden -- he only ever enters via dark corridor, so there seemed little point in keeping it on him. With any luck that storm, or whatever it had been, will be gone, and walking to the kiosk will not be too much of a nuisance. ]

[ Marluxia pauses, a little later, at the entrance to the common area. He was expecting to have to climb through rubble to get out, but everything is back to the way it has always been. ]

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[OOC: Feel free to run into him anywhere between the upper levels of the shelter and the kiosk where he's headed. His coat looks like a collection of haphazardly cut black ribbons from behind, but he's otherwise un-injured and pretty as usual. ^^]

[Some feedback over the transmission...and then he speaks quietly after taking a deep breath.]

There's a library here. I assume you know where. Meet me inside and be quick about it.

[A shocked voice abruptly echoes across the network.] T-T-Trespassing!? I'm sorry, I promise! I didn't even KNOW I was trespassing at the time...a-and the Sohma even forgave me! Ahhh~! Oh mom...wh-what am I supposed to do now!? This...is the absolute worst!

[Heavy depressed gloom enters her voice] I-I'm so sorry. To think I have done something so terrible...I'd have to be locked up in a prison. I'm the worst...the absolute most horrid. I'd probably lock me away, too...