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[envyspites]

I - [action, morning, 1125 Taylor]

[It was very, very odd. What does waking up feel like to a person who thought they were dead? They'd think it was some sort of afterlife, right? In Mion's case, yes. Color her the most confused when she opened her eyes to see sunlight. 

Sunlight, no. The last time she'd closed her eyes, it had been the dead of night. They were getting picked off one by one, death by horrible death, by...who was killing them? Who had done it? For the life of her, she couldn't remember. It was someone she knew, someone all of them knew, someone so familiar it the shock of learning it hit her harder than actually getting shot.

It was.

Her? Takano?]

The...hell...?

[So Mion sits up in bed, and rubs her eyes. She peers out the window beside her. 

and things got even more confusing. A white house with a clean picket fence? Fresh-cut grass and leaves falling off of autumnal trees? It looked like some kind of place from a child's storybook, not anything like she town she'd grown up in. This frankly all seemed like a type of karmic purgatory to her. Was she really dead, though? She pinched herself and the pain sensation seemed real enough.

In a panic only someone like Mion could muster, she immediately scrambled out of her door, down the stairs, and into the kitchen. If a housemate chooses to come and investigate the sudden racket, they will see one (1) Mion, sitting at the kitchen table with a pot of coffee boiling, singing something very odd and looking a little dazed.] Swing loooow, sweet chaaaaariot...

II - [phone - evening]

Uh. Hi. Guess I'm not dead afterall. Which is good. But it'd also be kinda cool to consciously see the afterlife. [A pause.] Is anyone from Hinamizawa here? I have some friends I'd like to get into contact with. As soon as possible. I need to make sure they're not all dead, too.

III - [highschool, afternoon, Wednesday]

[Your class. That day. SUDDENLY PAPER AIRPLANE COLLIDING WITH YOUR HEAD. There's a dry giggle from behind, the owner of the paper plane clearly very amused with herself. What do?]

Comments

phone

[strayprincess.livejournal.com]

You... you thought you might be dead?

[envyspites]

I was dead, actually.

[strayprincess.livejournal.com]

You... you were? What happened?

I - Action

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

[Marisa does stumble down, yawning and rubbing the sleep from her eye at the racket. She's not used to anyone being that loud, so she just blinks at the green-haired girl that she didn't recognize.

And then Marisa sits at the table and pillows her head in her arms. A moment later and she starts snoring. It was too early in the morning apparently.]

[envyspites]

Hey.

[Mild twitch, prodding Marisa's arm with the empty coffee mug in her hand.]

You want coffee?

[adropofjupiter.livejournal.com]

[The snoring is disrupted and one gold eye cracks open.]

Tea...

III

[naicha]

[ Since customers don't usually come around her cosplay cafe until around 3, there wasn't much to do until classes at the elementary and high school were over. Taiwan often used this time as her break. She thought of coming over to the high school and meet her friends there today, so here she was, wondering if there was anyone free or skipping class that she could talk to. Being considered an adult in this town gets pretty lonely. ]

Ooh!

[ She spins around. ]

Who was that? I'm telling on you!

[envyspites]

[She just snickers.]

You! What's your name?

[naicha]

You should introduce yourself before asking for other people's names.

III

[buryinmysound.livejournal.com]

[Sup, Mion. This music teacher... doesn't seem much older than you! And doesn't seem too intent on actually teaching, to be perfectly honest. She just leaves the kids to their own devices, not really caring if they're doing music-related things or not.

And what about her? She's currently strumming out tunes on a bass that looks suspiciously like an axe. Actually, scratch that. It looks exactly like an axe. Razor-sharp blades and all.]

... What, was that supposed to annoy me or something? C'mon, that's like something one of the drone kids would do. Totally lame.

[envyspites]

I actually wasn't aiming for you.

[buryinmysound.livejournal.com]

Really? And what exactly were you aiming for?

Phone

[fist-of-flames.livejournal.com]

Hinami-whaza? Also ha. Ha ha ha. Yeah, good luck with this place with that line of thinking, kid.

[envyspites]

Hinamizawa, buddy. And what do you mean?

[fist-of-flames.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure. That thing. And what I mean is exactly what I mean. Didn't anybody give you the run down about this place already yet? Because man... that's the most roundabout way of being optimistic and pessimistic at the same time. "So uh... yeah. Thought I died. Guess not. Anybody from home here?"

Phone ☆

[badend-replay.livejournal.com]

[ That voice on the other end of the line... it's familiar. But why is that person talking about being dead? And an afterlife? It can't be... Mion's not supposed to be tainted by things like that! ]

M...

Mi?!

[envyspites]

[holy shit rika

Mion has no words for a moment or two. Rika was really just fine, here, in this weird town? Then that means she must have escaped. So, she didn't die in vain--]

Yeah.

Are you...alright, Rika?

[badend-replay.livejournal.com]

m...mi! [ She confirms with a soft, cutesy sound. Alright? Right, right... Mion would naturally worry about that. It's been so long since Rika last saw her, though. This feels strange. How does she act around Mion? What's she supposed to do? ] I am fine, yes. I have been in Mayfield for a while-...

... has anyone talked to you about where you are yet, Mi?

III - highschool

[karakoibutler.livejournal.com]

<sub>[ Hayate was off in his world, having those days where he wondered how his mistress and the others were doing. It was nice being able to attend school and make new friends, but he still would like to have someone he knew here.

Bonk. Something hit the back of his head which thrown him back to reality. ]</sub>

--Eh?

What was--a paper airplane...?

_{[ He blinked and then heard the dry giggle from behind him. ]}

Umm... is this yours?

[envyspites]

Does it have my name on it?!

[karakoibutler.livejournal.com]

...Well who else would do this?

III

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

[Yeah. Eridan's used to this... doesn't make it any more irritating.]

An' exactly what the hell is so funny?

[envyspites]

You have a pretentious air to you.

III

[callinblueskies.livejournal.com]

[Since most of the high school students barely notice him to begin with, Rin wasn't agitated like he normally would be when the paper plane hit his head.]

What the-[And why was that girl laughing.]

Did you throw that?

[envyspites]

[Insert innocent whistle here. And pointing a finger to the dronekid beside her.]