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knifemonopoly) wrote2021-02-05 06:28 pm
knifemonopoly) wrote2021-02-05 06:28 pm
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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, PLAYER1. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 10.11.0.0.01 *** PLAYER1 has joined 10.11.0.0.01 <PLAYER1> If you're looking for someone you knew as Yugi before June, you've found him! It's Atem, leave a message. | ||||
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So, he does take Atem's help to stand back up initially, but he also attempts to levitate on his own. It's been more than long enough to recharge his shade batteries, he hopes. And, blessedly, it does work. He lifts off the ground just a bit, his edges growing less sharp and his coloration darkening, but not completely.]
O-okay, I think...I've got it. Where do you want to start?
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If I had the speed I used to, I could cover this whole place in seconds...
[Sigh! Nothing for it when you don't have legs!]
Let's split up. If you take the part we walked through to get here, I'll check the rest.
[He gestures to the rows of headstones between the gate and the bench; it's maybe 1/5th of the total area, and shouldn't be too taxing.]
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Mm...Okay. I can do that. Shall we meet at the bench again once we're done? You'll probably finish after me...s-since you're doing more.
[But it doesn't matter. He's going to help. He's going to make a difference! Ryou's not...exactly energized, but he cares about Atem, and to a lesser but still clear degree, Steve. If this helps...he wants to have a part in it.]
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Mm-hm. Let's meet there.
I'll leave it to you!
[--he says over his shoulder, as he slithers off. It's good to check this place thoroughly, every once in a while....since it's hard to keep in touch with everybody all the time.]
Oh -- if you see Nagito's name, let me know. He's still missing...
[Atem does not like that. Not one bit. He's asked around, when he's gone visiting other places on the map, looking for main-quest leads...but no one's seen anyone matching his description. If Nagito's name is not in the graveyard, he must be somewhere...
He just hopes that somewhere isn't the same place Steve was, or worse. He really, really hopes Nagito just fell asleep somewhere inconvenient, which happens to monsters sometimes.]
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...This must be so hard on Atem. He's lost two of his close friends, and now he's driven to searching for their names in a graveyard to confirm if they've gone for good. Ryou wishes he could do more to help...but at this point, any comfort he might offer would probably be seen as cloying pity.
He doesn't like being pitied. He couldn't imagine Atem would like it either.
So, he goes about floating along the headstones, reading the names carefully. No one they know shows up, and that's a good thing! There are actually no names he recognizes either, not that he expected to find any.
By the time he's reached the stones closest to the gate, Ryou can tell he has to stop, just for a moment. He wants to keep floating, but his body feels so heavy...so he settles down next to one of the graves and leans against the stone.
He's...just going to rest for a moment. He's tired...the ground somehow feels so inviting, and he doesn't even mind that he's leaning on someone's grave. He hopes they don't mind either, actually.]
...Please accept my apologies. I mean no disrespect.
[Murmured quietly, even though he knows it's an empty grave...he has to pay his respect.]
I'll let you be in...a minute.
[...Many minutes later, he's completely out, curled up on the ground and scarcely corporeal, if at all.]
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Atem makes the executive decision to let him sleep.
Ryou is gently wafted home with an old flyer someone pasted to the cemetery walls.]