Kotori's eyes slowly blinked open as she lay on the dirt ground, stirring uneasily. Was that someone nudging at her? Her gaze moved to the boy standing beside her, blinking against the sudden light from his flashlight. A sleepy smile made its way onto her face as she blinked a few times. "Just five more minutes," she muttered almost inaudibly, "I'm not going to be late for school, I promise." As her eyes adjusted to the light, however, she soon realizing she wasn't exactly in her bedroom. Or anywhere she recognized, for that matter.

Her eyes shot wide open as she immediately stumbled onto her feet, alarmed. Loosing control of herself and letting out a frantic hiss for a split moment, Kotori soon recomposed herself and caught her breath, . Gaze darting all over the room, she quickly concluded this place was most definitely somewhere she didn't want to be. 

She didn't seem to be alone, though. There was the boy who had woke her up, another girl (was she [i]bleeding[/i]?) and ... something else. She gave the man a brief glance, but then averted her gaze as she instead started to wonder exactly [i]where[/i] she was. How had she even gotten here, anyhow? There were dozens of questions floating in her mind in a jumbled, incoherent mess. It was probably best for her to not voice these thoughts until they were less jumbled, she knew, so she kept quiet for the most part. Well, at least she could ask them if they knew what was going [i]on[/i].

"Alright, where are we?" she quipped as she completely regained her composture, her usual grin abruptly plastering itself onto her face. It [i]was[/i] rather unfitting considering the circumstances, but Kotori brushed it off. None of the others looked to be the type capable of keeping the moral up, so she appointed herself as the one. (Judging by the look of the rest of the group, she thought herself to be the best for the job, anyhow.) "Actually, more importantly, I should probably get to know [i]you two[/i] first.~" She smiled serenely as she waited for an answer.

But gllancing around at the others, she noticed the boy was rather riled up. Kotori only managed to catch the last few words of the announcement, but couldn't make any sense of it. [i]Chi-chan? Ryuko? Who are [b]they[/b]?[/i] She knew she had just missed something important, but couldn't help but feel uncomfortable knowing the other two knew more than her.