But then the elevator comes to a stop. Not so much a ding as a whisper and then an equally weighty silence that says 'leave, or don't'. He steps out behind her, the light from the open doors illuminating the stairs in front of them. His neck prickles. It takes him a while to place where they are, because he only saw the stairs from the top once, when he was testing the vending machine with Kanna...]
The third floor... [So it is the death game... There's a long pause. He's pressing his scarf over his mouth and nose... like Sara before Keiji pointed it out, it's because of stimuli being processed purely and entirely on the unconscious level. He takes a step forward and down.] W-we should probably get going. Don't want to know what happens if someone in the school calls the elevator while we're down here...
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Something you want to say, Miss Sara?
[It is a nice line, in a familiar tone...
But then the elevator comes to a stop. Not so much a ding as a whisper and then an equally weighty silence that says 'leave, or don't'. He steps out behind her, the light from the open doors illuminating the stairs in front of them. His neck prickles. It takes him a while to place where they are, because he only saw the stairs from the top once, when he was testing the vending machine with Kanna...]
The third floor... [So it is the death game... There's a long pause. He's pressing his scarf over his mouth and nose... like Sara before Keiji pointed it out, it's because of stimuli being processed purely and entirely on the unconscious level. He takes a step forward and down.] W-we should probably get going. Don't want to know what happens if someone in the school calls the elevator while we're down here...