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[color=C1CDCD]Location:[/color] Personal Containment Hall [Yellow ward][/right][hr][hr][indent]
Casey turned his eyes from the girl who had arrived in front of them, and to the ceiling. A cacophonous screeching sound met the ears of the trio, an ominous sound that he doubted any of them knew the source of. Just a moment later, all of the lights went out. Casey’s shadowy faced turned back to the girl, his vision seemingly unaffected by the lack of functioning light fixtures. She seemingly had acquired a blade of some kind from somewhere. His shadowy hand curled its fingers around the boy’s at his side - even though Casey felt rather comfortable in the dark, the boy likely would not.

As he kept his gaze on her, he felt a string of words pull against the inside of his skull, intertwining as the sensation quickly faded. [color=C1cdcd]“Who are you - where are we?”[/color] She would hear the words from no particular direction - not that it mattered, as she wouldn’t be able to see the source in the dark - but instead they sounded out seemingly from inside her own head.

Even still, he felt two other small tugs inside his head, each directing him towards both the young boy and the older girl. He felt a sort of...[i]empathy[/i] for them, in the moment.
As the chugging, thrumming sound built louder in the distance, he could feel the two pulls -- they felt like - hesitation. Fear.

If the girl was scared, she was likely no threat to him or the boy. Casey felt his muscles relax a bit. Soon enough, the sound would settle, and as it did, the darkness disappeared - instead being replaced by a muted yellow hue of light. The wisps around his body, which had thickened in the darkness, seemed to crawl away into his body - though notably less so than they had in the bright white of the lights they previous had.

Moments later, an intercom sounded throughout the halls, informing them that the [i]“facility”[/i] was now on backup power, and that staff would be working the fix the problem. Casey’s heart fluttered in his chest. Staff? There were other people somewhere who could help?? He gave the boy’s hand a light, encouraging squeeze.

Moments after the intercom had seemed to shut off, another announcement tolled breakfast time, instructing them to head to wherever the canteen might be, before shutting off. The announcement soon coaxed the kid at his side to tug on Casey’s arm, softly sharing his wishes to find the canteen. Casey took his other hand and offered a [i]‘thumbs up[/i]’ gesture to the boy as he felt more words form inside his head. Felix would hear a rather optimistic-sounding [color=C1cdcd]“Good idea.”[/color] as Casey began taking short steps forward, still holding his hand lightly.

As they got a bit closer to the girl to pass her, Casey would offer a quick [i]‘thumbs up’[/i] and then a [i]‘come along’[/i] gesture with his free hand.
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