[Why yes, Hikaru was up during this time of night/early morning because he couldn't sleep. Haruhi was here? Seriously?? He just... couldn't believe it. Not just the fact that he didn't think she belonged here, but also the fact that she's here. His crush he didn't know he had a crush on. The first person he's fallen for though he stupidly didn't know it. Always so oblivious to things that are right in front of his face. It was just super awkward, what with the last thing that happened before ending up here.

Yeah, Kaoru was right. He knew Kaoru was right, but he didn't know what to do about it.

... Could he even do anything about it?

Such thoughts were hard to deal with when one just wants to sleep. Since Hikaru was sure that sleep was not going to happen, he found himself wandering around in sector 0.

... Okay, maybe it was more like pacing and thinking out loud. There's a reason why Hikaru is the known as the loud one anyway.]

What the hell?

Why is he- ? ... Why is she- ? What do I- ?

AAAGH this pisses me off so much!

Good morning, criminals! Today is the 38th day of the 3rd generation. For your information, we will continue to experience flurries until the afternoon, and then the day will warm up slightly.

I am very pleased to announce that those of you who have been concerned about inmate Rido Kuran need be no longer. He has been apprehended and placed into custody, and I will be ensuring that he can no longer threaten the rest of you. I offer my profound thanks and appreciation to those of you who went out of your way to ease the minds of your fellow inmates.

Since some inmates have displayed interest in taking up music as a hobby, I have taken the liberty of stocking the music room in the education center with more learning modules and instruments! Everyone please enjoy.



((Note that the main action of the Rido capture is still ongoing, so enjoy it! Also, a new event will be beginning next Monday, the 39th day, and will last for some time -- FYI, because it might interrupt some of your own plots.))

[Trudging through Sector 4 to return to his abode, Fou-Lu is obviously damn tired. Well, it's at least obvious if you aren't totally thick, with his posture and the tired, droopy expression, and the occasional rapid blinking to force away the blear in his eyes. The hunt was a success, and that meant all that was left was to enjoy the peace and quiet. In that spirit, he plans on enjoying a nutritious meal and a nice nap.]

[Assuming no one interferes.]

[Mihashi had spent the last few days sticking mostly to his room. He had been doing his best trying to avoid Yamamoto and Yuri. He knows the other two boys will just try again to get him to agree to playing baseball, and he's too scared of what would happen when they realize how lousy he actually is. So he hid. But after a few days of only leaving his room (he'd managed to find a nice empty one) to eat and go to the bathroom, he was feeling very baseball deprived.

It is now early morning, and he is pretty sure that even if the others are awake, they're probably still eating breakfast, so he sneaks out, and heads to the baseball field, hoping to get in a little pitching practice.

He goes into the equipment shed, pleasantly surprised to find a pitching target, and drags it out, along with a few balls, and sets it up by homeplate. He begins stretching then, knowing that if he didn't, and Abe ever found out he didn't he would yell at him.]

[After the calamity of errors that was last night, Conrad's decided to take the morning off. No training, no jogging, nothing but watching his cat -- cats, now -- romp around the butterfly pavilion, batting at the snowflakes and chasing after the red dot of Conrad's laser pointer, and occasionally snuggling into his lap to warm up.]

[He looks to be feeling quite out of sorts. And he's distracted, unusually so. So much that if someone were to sneak quietly up, they'd get a chance to catch him looking so very distracted before he puts on his 'everything-is-perfectly-fine' smile. But only for a moment.]

[ A chuckle. ]

Ah, wonderful! My day has started off quite well indeed! ♥

[ You might be able to hear a low, "lero, lero, lero" in the background. ]

Now, I was able to make this device take recordings, how did I manage it... ah! Here we are.

[ A shrieky "lero?!", and another chuckle. So far, the video shows a wooden floor. ]

Calm down, there is nothing to be frightened about.

[ The video pans up to this image. The pumpkin head on the umbrella starts looking panicky. The Earl just smiles. ]

Fellow inmates, please meet my dear companion, Lero.

[ The video cuts out after a moment, to be replaced by voice only. More "leroooo... but Earl-tama..." can be heard in the background. ]

Please don't be afraid of him. He is a little shy of strangers. ♥

[there’s some microphone popping as it gets tapped with a finger] Hello? Hellooo? Testing, testing, one, two…

[then takes a moment to breathe heavily and ominously into the microphone, then coughs suddenly and clears his throat.] Wow, that was weird…

Captain’s Log. Date: Unknown. Location..... Also unknown. Which is, needless to say, just a little unnerving.

I’ve found myself in a strange new place. Everything is… horrendously clean around here. It’s ridiculous! No self-respecting pirate would ever want to end up in a place as horrifyingly clean as this place is. It almost reminds me of… of porcelain. Heaven preserve me… And of course the smell around here is just… eyuucch. It burns the nose right off.

But I’ve got to find a way out of here. Luckily, I still seem to have some of my… [there’s the sound of cloth rustling] …Heyyy. What the heck am I doing with this rubber chicken? I thought I threw it out…

[more rustling] …Hey! All my cool stuff is gone! Man, now I have to start all over…

Elaine is gonna kill me…

[ anyone who checks the fridge in the shelter may notice that about 1/3 of the blood stored there is missing. ]

[There is a yawning sound in the communicator as Len wakes up. He had been sleeping a lot, he had been sick the last few days and just thinking about wearing his communicator already made his headache worse. But, now he was back, and he was curious to know what happened when he was sick]

I apologize for interrupting, but I was wondering if someone could tell me if something important happened lately?

[This isn't Resembool. It isn't Rush Valley, either. The buildings don't look like anything Winry's ever seen in her travels, actually. And it's a little chilly. She reaches up to hold her head due to dizziness, activating the voice button accidentally.]

...This place...where am I?

[She realizes now that there is some kind of device on the side of her head, with a text read-out in front of her eye. The crimes run off in front of her, starting with 'Treason'. She reads them all, then takes off the device to examine it. There's a microphone, a speaker, and a number of marked buttons. It doesn't take her long to figure the basics out. It seems to be some kind of radio, but without an external power source. Obviously there's something powering it since it lit up like that, but she can't figure it out. She'd have to check out the insides of it later.]

[She shivers a bit as she puts it back on her head, takes a deep breath, and talks:] Hello?

...I don't suppose this is some sort of weird dream, is it?

He-Hello? Is this thing on? My name is Dr. Spencer Reid, I'm with the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI. I think we may be experiencing some kind of misunderstanding. Almost all of the charges held against me are, technically, crimes, yes. But all of them were acts done in the line of duty, in the pursuit of very dangerous criminals, or done to protect innocent people, or other law enforcement personnel. Others are so vague that the timing of their commission is very nonspecific. If the Internal Affairs division of the FBI has no cause to investigate me for any wrongdoing, then I have trouble understanding why I'm here.

Further, I wasn't aware that the ball and chain method of inmate restraint was still in use by correctional facilities. And, ah, don't I get a phone call?

-kage! Mikage!

[The recording feature had been accidently bumped. Now everyone can hear the sheer terror in the boys voice and the panting from his continued search. Totally not daunted by being chained up at first either. Chains are just chains... He's had to wear them before. Where he is doesn't matter to him right now. Nothing is as important as finding Mikage.]

Where are you? Mikage! Please -!

[A thump and some coughing that sounds eerily like choked sobs. He's on the ground, just staring blankly at it.]

No... I can't... I can't lose you again...