Kimihiro Watanuki (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} aprilfirst) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} vas_captio_rpg, |
"I thought we'd agreed that we were still somewhere on Earth?"
Of course, it was entirely possible that these two girls didn't even come from the same planet as him. But he didn't want to think about that possibility.
Because in that case he'd have to think about his friends, whom he had no way to get in touch with now.
"Himawari-chan," he sighed, putting down the mouldy book he'd been leafing through. "Will I ever see your smile again?"
He started walking around the aisles, looking around. "This place looks as if it's been abandoned for centuries!" he replied to River. "Hey, there's a tree blocking the passage here..."
His voice trailed off as he watched the pale trunk, whose branches were pointing upwards in a determined if futile effort to catch the dusty light coming in from a gap in the roof.
The more he explored, the more the library seemed to be dismal and, well, useless.
"Most of these books seem to be in English," he ventured after a while. "Can you two read them?"
Somehow, despite being in high school he had almost no knowledge of English.
Watanuki nodded when River suggested that they stick together. "It would be strange if this was just a library in the middle of a forest, right?" he said with a small chuckle. It wasn't really funny, though, considering the other strange things that had already happened to them, so the smile died on his lips.
"There's probably other buildings around here," he continued lamely. "We could look for a place where it's safer to light a fire."
He didn't suggest using the books to light a fire, because the idea somehow disquietened him.