curfew; w1

[adlucem]

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[starcracker]

[ there's a bird in a little makeshift blanket nest in the truck also. i am making this executive decision. kairi has left it some food and water that it is ignoring to look in the general direction of the arcade.

anyway that is a lot of truck horns all of a sudden. this is ruining their slumber party ]

Ugh-- what was that?

[ DID SOMEONE ELSE DIE ]

[zuihitsu]

I'll check it out!

[ She tries to open the door and fails. ]

What? Hey?

[ She bodily slams into the door. ]

Hey!

[starcracker]

Is it locked?

[ she'll try the door too!



nothing ]

What the...

[zuihitsu]

Why is it locked now?

[ Hello? HELLO????? ]

LET US OUT.

[starcracker]

I don't think anyone can hear us...

[ this is not great ]

What do they mean, it's "closed"?

[zuihitsu]

Uhhh, everything is locked because it's closed?

[ this is her trying to do 1 + 1 = ? ]

But I don't get it when every other night, it wasn't like this?

[starcracker]

Right. Why would everything close down all of a sudden...?

[ trying to peer out the window but it's just fog. ]

I can't see anything. [ >:( ]

[zuihitsu]

What makes right now so different?

[ She frowns. ]

This is bogus. This is not ablaze.

[starcracker]

... Not... ablaze?

[zuihitsu]

It's not lit, fam.

[ ): ]

[starcracker]

Isn't that a good thing? Don't set the gas station on fire.

[zuihitsu]

Kai-nyan, no!!! If it's lit, it's the best! It's, like, super duper cool!

[starcracker]

So it's like... slang?

[ she's hoping she isn't just a pyromaniac. she can only have so many fire friends plz ]

[reconnective]

[bird???

anyway, there's a lot of horns and he's covering his ears before he narrows his eyes in the direction of the door. kairi and sei are busy trying the door and he just shakes his head.]

Some kind of signal? [for what, he does not know.]

[starcracker]

[ people die when they are killed. and then they leave their birds behind ]

A signal for what, though...?

[ concern :( ]

[reconnective]

I don't know. [he leans against her a little because yeah. concern.] It's only Thursday.

[starcracker]

[ she leans back!!! looking worried!! ]

Did we mix up the days somehow...? [ no, but she's trying, okay. she looks at her knees for a second ] I hope everyone else is okay.

[reconnective]

Maybe...[it's said in a way like he doesn't think so, but it's better than thinking something worse.] If we're locked in our truck, hopefully the others are, too. Do you think people stuck together after everything?

[starcracker]

I don't know... [ hrm. ] I'm not even sure everyone would have been back in their trucks in the first place. It's late, but not that late.

[reconnective]

[oh bad.]

You think some of the others are still inside the store and stuff? Maybe those didn't lock up.

[starcracker]

Maybe... But when stores close, they lock up everything, don't they?

[ she's thinking of rat man also. just. being in there with them ]

[reconnective]

I think so, but it's not like we've seen anybody who actually works here. [except for maybe rat man? who the hell knows.]

...if they're locked inside the store, at least they have stuff they can use to try and fight back. [hopefully.]

[starcracker]

... Right. And there's no point worrying over them when there's nothing we can do from here. We just have to trust they'll be able to take care of themselves.

[ hrm. ]

Who do you think does the announcements for clean up? That has to be an employee, right? But... is it the rat...?

[reconnective]

Right. [he says, knowing they will all worry anyway. but the question is a good distraction.]

Maybe, but where are they even making the announcements from? Unless the rat is making the announcements. [he's ignoring that there have been different voices because it's a metal rat. maybe it can use magic too. fuck if he knows.]

[starcracker]

Maybe they were using the same PA system that Artemy used...? [ a pause ] What if there's more than one rat and that's why they have different voices?