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a new arrival

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【 day 44 】

Hello newcomer, welcome to the 【 Warehouse 】.

Once you escape your elevator, you will find yourself here. It's strangely empty for a warehouse. Aside from the elevators you've come out of, there's nothing else here. In fact, the longer you look around, the stranger everything looks.

Every window has been bolted shut, with no way of removing the steel coverings. The only source of illumination comes from the florescent lights above. Along the walls are numerous amounts of surveillance cameras, watching every bit of movement and listening to the sounds of everyone and everything. Every door is locked up tight, with no clear way of opening them, and there's one giant door with a 9 painted on it. It's a rather strange place, and there seems to be a lot of people here, so go introduce yourselves?

For the "old-timers" and "newly-become-old-timers", come meet your new fellow test subject. Thankfully(?) enough, no one has disappeared for this "replacement" to appear. Lucky you, you can still be a sickeningly happy family without anyone leaving. Calhoun will just pretend to barf over here while you can have your free bath of the week.

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[he just got snarled at. by snarlfendi.

Al is slightly irritated when Hershel apologizes and caves to his demands so easily, but he's not going to comment on it, too busy slouching in his seat and impatiently staring at his hand. He narrows his eyes when Hershel starts joking around with him, like he's trying to figure out what he's actually feeling, but he's so distracted trying to remember everything that happened between the puzzle room and here that he's not able to really concentrate.]

Just - stop bleating on like the meek little goat you are. [well that's rude. He takes his arm from Hershel and examines it - only briefly, of course, before he puts his eyes back to the washroom door - before holding his second out without comment.

He's totally going to do this in complete silence if Hershel lets him.]

Ah, a goat now. I'm going to be an entire farmyard before the end of this. [Hershel mused, unable to help a little amusement and feeling kind of weird about it because the situation was too tense for this kind of nonsense. Alfendi didn't seem to want to talk either, so yes, just talking to himself, that was good.

He took one of the rags, dampening it in the sink before moving to clean Alfendi's other wrist now. He couldn't imagine Alfendi walking around for a day or two like this, apparently he'd need to try to keep an eye on him incase he ignored something even more serious. This Alfendi didn't seem to be ignoring it at least, and Hershel couldn't help another question as he worked.]

Um... do you remember everything that happened when you're not... like this? [He stumbled on the last part, he wasn't sure how to word it.] You definitely seemed confused when this started, at least.

[Alfendi tries to roll his eyes with as much disdain as he can manage, but as soon as that rag makes contact with his wrist, he sucks in air through his teeth and bites down on his tongue to stop the pain. He'd curl his hand into a fist, too, but. you know. dead hands.

he covers the pain, of course, with anger.]

Be careful! [He's certainly reacting to his wounds with more emotion than before - did that other alfendi seriously not give a shit about his injuries?? that was definitely a concern.] I swear to god, Hershel, if you don't stop with all of this yapping, I'm going to cut out your tongue and reign you in myself!

[which is as good an answer as any, of course. he's obviously trying to distract hershel from pursuing this line of questioning, but he's probably not doing a very good job at it.]

[They were reinacting that one scene from Beauty and the Beast, that's what that was. He jumped a little at the scolding, wow this Alfendi liked to throw threat and shit around, what a champ.] Ah, sorry. [He says because that will make Alfendi happy, and does make an effort to be even more careful, which frankly was kind of hard.

And now his tongue was being threatened, that's good.] Well um... talking is a good distraction, right?

[He was trying, he was trying so hard.]

[huff. Alfendi slumps in his seat even more, if that's possible, going from a barking and attention-starved dog to a petulant, tantrum-stricken child who isn't getting his way. He glares at Hershel's apology, making another dismissive scoff noise under his breath, but after retracting his wrist out of Hershel's grip and gently blowing on where it hurts (again, for the attention, probably), he holds his arm out again and waits for it to be bandaged.

either because he feels bad or because he's just trying to suck up to hershel so he'll keep taking care of him, alfendi quietly tries to open up a little bit.]

Imagine waking up in the middle of the day, after another man - a man who you don't even know, a man you don't even recognize - has been controlling your body for you while you slept. Waking up to see what that man has done for you... well. It takes me a moment to remember where I am.

[which isn't really answering hershel's question, but it's a start. he doesn't look downcast or upset about this so much as just pissed off about being injured and generally miserable about the entire world in general]

[He was half expecting to have to argue with Alfendi until he gave his hand back but 'lo and behold, Alfendi wasn't complete shit. He finished cleaning up, focusing on gently bandaging again and also not expecting Alfendi to actually answer him.

He pauses, hands freezing as he looks up at Alfendi as he spoke. He couldn't read the tone, he was no human lie detector or anything like that so he still just couldn't tell what to make of all this, besides it was terribly, terribly sad to hear.]

... I really can't imagine waking up to find out you've been kidnapped twice, in a way. I'm sorry that's what you've been waking up to. [This was so complicated, if they were two different people then who was the actual Alfendi? Honestly this one seemed so much more human, even if he was a bit of a prat. He could deal with hot air more than he could sociopath-chan.] I wonder what triggers this change then, I suppose pain of some sort.

[Right, okay, bandaging again.]

[saying alfendi wasn't complete shit was probably giving him too much credit, but he appreciates the thought.]

Yes, well. The first time I woke up in this place, I was strapped to an electric chair, so. [blank stare. needless to say, it would have been easier if that wasn't the case. at least it explains the severity of his injuries?]

That being said - if you try to hurt me in order to trigger some kind of change, then they'll be rinsing your blood from the cafeteria walls for weeks. [ALFENDI TOO SOON] Besides, I don't know what's going on any more than you do, so if you're asking for my opinion, I don't have one to give.

I just assumed Zero dropped the ball when he went messing with my brain, but from Kuzuryuu's reaction - and yours - nobody else has had this happen to them.

[Does he really appreciate it though.

That too soon Akiko comment makes Hershel's gaze fall, clearly uncomfortable but hey, at least he doesn't seem mad about it? More just sad because he and Sasuke just watched a fun video of Akiko in a puzzle room and it was still kind of fresh. He tries to push past it though, sort of losing some of what Alfendi said but hearing the end of it and getting the general picture, at least.]

Oh um no, never. Personality changes were always... intentional, I suppose. [Simon. Jewel of Vivarium.] If- just I wish there was some way we could try to help. I guess that's almost impossible if we don't even know what the problem really is, though.

[Alfendi isn't the type to feel guilty about a silly little thing like making fun of an innocent girl's death, so he gently just pries his hand away from Hershel and finishes bandaging it himself while the stupid kid sulks. well that's kind.]

That's asinine. The last thing I want from you is your help, or even your understanding - I just want you to keep quiet about this until I can figure out what's going on by my own terms. [he does not want an angry mob to be set upon him so yes hershel keep hush hush.

but. with Kuzuryuu, alfendi had told him not to trust the other side of him, the placid side - and he had asked kuzuryuu to keep an eye on certain people when he wasn't around. he only shared that information because he was tied to an electric chair and also scared to fucking death, but. maybe he should talk to Hershel about this.]

You shouldn't help that other Alfendi, anyway. [such a weird thing to say.] I don't trust him. [that is even weirder]

[What an Alfriendi. He's kind of surprised when Alfendi just takes his hand back but allows it, frowning as he listens.]

So you're asking me not to tell anyone about this? [That was fair enough, he supposed. He had no reason to trust that the others wouldn't decide he was dangerous. He liked everyone here and even he wasn't sure how some of them would react, especially after Simon.] ... Alright, I won't say anything to anyone other than Kuzuryuu.

[Yeah, wow. Don't trust me, only other me, what a thing to hear.] Why don't you? [It was worth a try.]

I'd rather you didn't tell little miss subdermal irritance about this. [get it. subdermal irritance. because kuzuryuu gets under his skin. and he's tiny. so. little miss subdermal irritance. haha. haha] He's not exactly my closest confidante in here. He kept getting all short with me in that puzzle room after I threatened to kill him. [well.] How much do you trust him?

[just rudely asking questions after telling hershel to shut it. but yeah. serious question time. palfriendi shrugs.]

You should stop asking me stupid questions.

[well ok.]

... subdermal irritance. [Hershel was kind of torn between impressed and wow rude dude. Still, he wasn't calling Kuzu a shrunken elf of a man so clearly this was fine- wait he made a short joke rude.] It's surprising he'd react poorly to death threats. [dry again.]

[And he didn't need much time at all to consider that answer.] I trust him, Kuzuryuu is a good person. He wouldn't use the information to hurt or threaten you, I'm sure of it. He already knows anyway, so it's not like it's all that much of a secret.

[You're a stupid question.] Is it stupid because the answer's obvious or because you can't answer it?

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