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Valentine turned slowly breathing heavily as he watched the fighting unfold between St. Claire and mini the boss, Valentine didn't think St. Claire would lose, he couldn't think much because to do so would be admitting that he'd be watching his brother die. However, Valentine's mental fortitude kicked in, and his negative thoughts about his brother losing quickly left. That was until they serviced again as Saint Claire was knocked on the floor. Thankfully his brother managed to block the syringe with the body of the previously used-up zombie. Valentine's breath caught in his lungs for but a mere moment, he didn't know what was going to happen but he had hoped his brother would make it through the fight. That hope proved to be worthwhile as St. Claire got a shot in the boss from his talisman. Then his brother turned the tides of battle, beating the zombie's skull into a pulp. Valentine had never seen his brother be so ruthless, but for a creature that just tried to kill them all, he had no pity. Especially when the person it was trying to kill first was his little brother. [break][break]

Valentine gently placed his hand on his brother's shoulder, "that's enough Saint, I think it's dead," Valentine said, as he could no longer feel the creature's presence, "for good now," he followed up, realizing his choice of words. One of Valentine's primary concerns was that these zombies, these undead would be harder to kill than just a head shot, thankfully that wasn't the case, but what he was really fortunate about was his passive that let him sense the presence of those in his immediate surroundings, because of that, Valentine could tell when it was no longer there, no longer on this mortal coil. "Are you okay?" He asked his brother, concern plaguing his voice.[break][break]

"Come on, let's move," Valentine said, he had finally been able to catch his breath as his brother had fought the boss but fatigue was still rearing its ugly head. Jogging was a chore, and he could feel his muscles becoming sore, he was sure it wouldn't be long until he would start cramping up, thus why he took another water bottle out of his inventory, guzzling it down in mere seconds before tossing one to each of the others. Hydration was important in times like this. Opening the double doors, Valentine found another office room, though this one had a ladder on the right side of the wall that led upward. Just to be safe Valentine astral projected, lifting his body from the floor to floor. [break][break]

He only stood on the floor directly for but a mere moment, glancing around to make sure it was safe, when it looked like all the other resting areas, he shot up again, this time seeing an empty hallway but what surprised him was that he could see the signs of battle, two dead bodies, they weren't bitten instead their torsos, had been slashed through, it seemed as if they had bled to death when Valentine rounded the corner he found saw a room, a simple one at that, there was nothing but zombies there. Moving back in the other direction, toward the north he saw the elevator. Still, oddly there was nothing around it, so he turned down the east hallway, only to see two things a group of 12 desperately trying to fight through zombies and skeletons, but not just zombies, the 8th-floor mini-boss, a bulky zombie that held a spiked club, it charged through the other zombies near it just to attack the guy in front who had a tower shield, the lucky bastard. [break][break]

The guy skidded back, his arm visibly bruised, but thankfully two spell casters were behind him, evident by the fact that they both shot different elemental blasts at the skeletons and zombies. From what Valentine could see their party dynamic had four spell casters each with a cardinal element, 4 tanks, or sturdy-looking guys, and 2 physical damage dealers that would attack any that get through the tanks or are too close for comfort to them. A guy who could spill out white light that seemed to heal, and another that was throwing... "Are those fucking bombs?!" What the hell Valentine said in his astral form, watching with awe, it was no wonder they had survived this long. He silently cursed himself for being split off from such an effective group, though it seemed as if this group had gone up the building the old fashion way. [break][break]

However, from what Valentine could see the group was slowly but surely moving back toward the stairs, probably trying to get the high ground to better stab at and fire at the skeletons with the mages from above where they wouldn't risk friendly fire. It was a smart plan and Valentine could continuously see why they made it so far. Though what Valentine was most happy about was that the mini-boss was occupied, especially as two of the DPS had gone on the assault. Looking around he found a simple common area to the right side of the party that had lured the boss from further down the hall. He didn't know if the party had plans to come back and inspect the ladder, but the sudden tremble he could feel from his mortal body was enough to tell him his time for scouting had run out. That was all Valentine needed to see before he flung his astral body back into his physical. [break][break]

While back in his physical body his eyes fluttered open and words quickly followed suit, "we have to move now! Right now! Trust me I think we can get to the 10th-floor boss and be done with all this and save some lives in the process!" Valentine said, hurriedly making his way up the ladder, pushing himself to climb further and further up even though his muscles were straining. Valentine continued moving, he didn't stop to rest in the restroom for but a mere minute, before climbing up the next ladder, speaking as he did, "we got lucky there's another party facing off against the 8th-floor boss, while they keep it distracted we can climb up the ladder and hid straight for the last boss and objective and end this damn shit." Valentine said realizing that he would, in fact, be using someone essentially as bait. [break][break]

However, he quickly spoke once more, "it might be crappy of us not to help that party out, but they looked formidable and I doubt they'll go down easily, if at all, but they look tired. The best we can do is try and end this tutorial as quickly as possible so that we all can live." Valentine said he was sure the party would've already done so if they had already fought a mini-boss and figured out the ladder information before them. Instead, they climbed through the one area Valentine rarely scouted, the stairs, taking the hard way up the entire time. [break][break]

"Follow me, stay behind, and move as fast as you can," Valentine said as he lifted the floor latch, stepping onto the 8th floor, he quickly rushed out of the room, heading straight toward the east hallway, he jogged, his breathing was heavy and his forehead visibly beaded with sweat. He turned directly into the common room area, the screams and shouts of the party yelling out their moves as if they were in some type of manga could be heard. Clearly, they had gotten into the whole thing, into their roles and classes, Valentine couldn't blame him, doing the same to a degree was what was keeping him sane. He moved over to the ladder climbing it quickly waiting for the others to follow, once they were in the next resting area on the 9th floor he took a moment to catch his breath before taking a knee, dipping his head, closing his eyes, and astral projecting once more. [break][break]


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Upon reaching the 10th floor Valentine could see what appeared to be a washroom, showers, tubs, slick tiles layered with water sitting a top of them, and steam littered a watery area about, as he floated down the large washing area, he saw a flash of red out of the corner of his eye. He visibly paused, concern welling up inside him, until the boss creature simply walked passed him, but what he saw was enough to make him want to turn his tail back to his body and let the other party deal with it. [break][break]

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With each step the zombie took steam would rise up in vast abundance, its body veins looked as if they had liquid magma or fire running through them, its skin was soot gray, and a maw of fangs could be seen from its mouth. Its fingernails ran long like sharp 6-inch claws. His body was covered in charged scrubs and a tattered doctor's coat that seemed to be alight with dancing flames. Though what was most disturbing to Valentine was the way its body seemed to warp the air around it, the steam that rose from the ground as it walked, it clearly had some high body temperature. Meaning that getting close to this thing, and attacking it physically could possibly burn you to a crisp. He saw no other minions, possibly because they would just get burned up by the boss. [break][break]

The boss of who seemed to move back and forth from the washroom to out the open door of the hall, across from the room there were two wooden doors that Valentine could see, above it, the words "intensive care" could be seen. Walking through the doors, or rather phasing through with his astral body, Valentine saw it, the bed with the red "X" a sickly looking young girl, her skin just as dark as the zombies in front of them, red veins that looked as if they were filled with fire appearing to run through her body, but what was most interesting was the white flowers that seemed to bloom from her body. Beautiful and delicate. Valentine wondered what all this could mean, but he didn't have time to reflect on such, what he did notice was the area in which to hang an IV bag, a needle already running into her veins, this needle and tube looking sturdier than any he had ever seen. [break][break]

Leaving out of the room, Valentine noticed the floor plan, he could see that in order for someone to get to the final objective no matter where they went on this floor, they had to come by this washroom, either throughout it from the south, or around it from the east and west, he figured that the boss fight was designed to happen in that hallway, possibly damaging the patient and causing the tutorial to fail. Unless one could lure it into the washroom that it also patrolled.[break][break]

Moving back to his body, Valentine spoke as his eyes opened "Okay, good news and bad news, the next floor is a washroom area, the boss is there but he's practically on fire, or rather has it running through its veins I think, it's hard to explain, either way, if we beat this boss, and put the IV bag on the patient, we can finish the tutorial I think! First things first though we have to prepare, the boss admits a lot of heat so once we get up there be sure to cover yourself in as much water as you can from the running showers." Valentine said, nodding to them all before speaking once more.[break][break]

"Mio, do you still have that fire extinguisher from earlier?" Valentine asked, turning to the shy girl. She nodded, pulling it out of her inventory. Valentine grabbed it from her hurriedly explaining so that she didn't think he was being rude. "Okay, I'm going to attack first, draw its attention and try and weaken it as best I can with this fire extinguisher, after I do, I'm going to use my skill. After I hit it the first time with the extinguisher, I'll be counting on you to deal as much damage as you can Botan, drawing its attention." He said, turning toward St. Claire. [break][break]

"Then Saint Claire and all of us can try and finish off the boss together after it weakens and hopefully its heated body isn't that pressing of a threat anymore," Valentine said, then he turned to Mio, taking the fire extinguisher and fire axe and placing them into his inventory. Botan nodded beginning to charge a punch, his brass knuckles glowing a crimson red. [break][break]

"Mio, you'll take the IV and move past the boss to the hospital bed in the room behind to put the IV, on the patient, after we engage and draw the boss's attention," Valentine said, waiting for everyone to confirm if they understood the plan before he moved up the ladder, raising the hatch, or rather the grate that was raised slightly above the ground. Valentine moved to the side to allow the others to come up before he quickly stepped underneath the shower area. Letting himself get drenched after the rest did as well, he moved his soaking wet body to the middle of the floor, pulling the fire extinguisher out of his inventory, and grasping it in both hands. [break][break]

He ran forward, his body slipping and nearly sliding as he did but he managed to keep his footing. The boss burst through the double doors of the shower area, it roared, it was a guttural scream that sounded like a wood crackling fire mixed with something of pure anguish. It charged forward, Valentine grabbed the fire extinguisher, pushing himself for what meager stamina he had left. He pulled the lever, aimed, squeezed the trigger down, and swept the fire extinguisher from the left to the right, coating the boss, steam visibly rising up from the boiling water and the concoction within the extinguisher hitting his body. From then on Mio attempted to sneak by, as Botan came from the same side as Mio, delivering a charged punch to the zombie from the left, it flew toward the right and into the wall underneath the shower, but only for a mere second as it leaped up, crashing into Botan.[break][break]

Botan screamed, his arms were red and covered in blisters from first and nearly second-degree burns in mere moments. Just from blocking the zombie's tackle, the strength of the zombie hit was enough to knock Botan back, but Valentine found himself grateful that they had drenched themselves. He squeezed the trigger down on the extinguisher once more, drawing the boss's attention. It leaped at him, and Valentine activated his skill as he stepped back.[break][break]

He slipped seamlessly into the digital realm, as he dubbed it. He could no longer see the boss, but he could guess its direction, it was going only due to the fact that it had leaped at him, he rushed forward in the direction toward the leap that was no longer coming, turning around and moving three steps the northwest. He deactivated his skill, finding himself behind the boss as it was engaged with Saint Claire and Botan. Mio had finally managed to move toward the door, but she slipped, hitting her head against the wall, the IV bag skidding across the wash area. [break][break]

Valentine's eyes went wide, they had to buy more time, he sprayed the extinguisher once more against the zombie's back, concentrating specifically on its neck, as Botan and most likely Saint Claire engaged. All before pulling out his fire axe from his inventory, and tossing the empty extinguisher to the side, he grabbed his fire axe in both hands, and carefully moved forward driving the axe into the zombie's neck. Though it didn't dig deep enough, it wouldn't be enough to remove the zombie's head. Not without more force. [break][break]

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Valentine nodded to St. Claire's words his brother was right, they were doing it, they were making it through this tutorial, so far no other teams had seemed to progress as far as they did, however, as they climbed Valentine gained a sinking feeling in his gut. The tutorial was designed so that the higher someone moved up the worse things got for people below, he wanted to keep moving up to the next floor immediately, but classes or not classes they were still human; at least he thought they were. They still had to keep moving, they still had to keep climbing if they wanted to stay alive. Self-preservation and luck in classes were the only things that kept them alive so far in this tutorial. However, as they saw the waiting area and his suspicions were confirmed, he ultimately decided to take a break as he could feel the weariness of all the running and fighting. They needed a break, going to the next floor haphazardly would just lead to danger and mistakes.[break][break]

After astral projecting upward, Valentine could see they were directly within close range of another mini-boss, Valentine's suspicion was that this meant that from here on out the bosses were going to be stronger, strong enough to not allow people to progress further up the stairs, on the plus side this meant that they didn't have to search for the next ladder up as it would most likely be near the mini-boss. [break][break]

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This mini-boss holding almost a comically sized syringe was enough to give him pause for concern, especially considering the syringe was almost the size of the petite zombie itself. It was clear to him that like the other zombie mini-bosses this one had increased strength.[break][break]

Valentine was never more grateful for his brother's skill choice than in this moment, after St. Claire's words of encouragement, Valentine nodded speaking directly after. "Clairey's right, we're almost there just two more ladders and we'll most likely be at the boss, we just have to survive till after we beat this challenge, once we do that then, well, I don't know what going to happen but I imagine its better than this godforsaken place," he said before climbing up the ladder, then he checked his menu, his skill was still on cooldown sadly, but he was getting the hang of his other core abilities and passive thankfully. He wasn't really fond of having such a long cooldown or being regulated to an ability that didn't allow him any offensive options but he had to play with the hand that was dealt. If his powers allowed him to scout then he was going to be the best damn scout there was. [break][break]

Valentine listened as St. Claire took charge, Valentine nodded in agreement with the plan before saying, "we'll be right behind you, bro! You can count on us, but... Please be careful Saint Claire," his voice trailed off a bit toward the end but it was laced with sincerity of a brother who cared deeply for his siblings. That was the true reason Valentine had been so at odds with his power choice, wondering if he should've chosen one of the others classes. Saint Claire was on the front lines until he could participate, he was the only reason they had moved as progressively as they had, moved as fast as they had through the rooms. [break][break]

Valentine waited for his brother to enter the room first just as St. Claire wanted. He waited till Saint Claire was only a few feet in front of him, before hefting his axe above his shoulders and running behind. St. Claire was spot on about his assumption the mini-boss had deemed him a threat and was heading straight for him, however, as some of the zombie mobs dodged St. Claire choosing to avoid them, they began to move toward the rest of the group, but what Valentine didn't expect was that the mini-boss would grab a zombie near her, yanking it down before plunging the syringe into it, drawing out what seemed to be a black liquid. Upon further contemplation Valentine realized it was blood, she plunged the syringe into herself, the muscles in her undead legs and arms visibly getting larger and bulkier within mere seconds. Then the mini-boss grabbed the bloodless zombie, a husk of what it once was, and tossed it at St. Claire with strength on par with his own. [break][break]

Valentine wasn't even sure how the hell that was possible, but he didn't have time to think about such especially, as he now had run up face to face with a zombie, he crashed his axe into its head with a hefty swing, splitting into its brain matter with a sickening squelch. Mio had stabbed another zombie in the face with the chair leg turned stake, kicking it off with pristine form much as she had done earlier. Botan, on the other hand, was far more impressive as he let loose a punch against a zombie with such force that when his brass knuckles connected with its skull it smashed its face in, launching it back into another zombie's skull causing it to stumble over. Valentine moved over avoiding the fight with St. Claire and the mini-boss to smash the downed zombie in the head with its axe. Then as he glanced up he saw Botan punching another zombie in the gut, before delivering another punch to its skull putting the creature out of its misery. [break][break]

"We have to move the zombies away from the mini-boss!" Valentine shouted, toward the others. As he tried hefting one of the bodies and dragging it away, moving it to the far corner of the room. "Got it!" Botan said, "Right!" Mio followed, and thankfully Botan was able to grab two of the zombies with ease by their legs and carry them away before running back for some of the others while Mio protected his flank. Valentine managed to move on more but after he was physically exhausted, his muscles were straining, and he didn't know how much he could go on. Though what he did know was that this mini-boss could use other zombies to its advantage and sure it would've cut down on the mob's numbers if she was allowed to utilize their corpses but he didn't want to take the chance of empowering her. Thankfully Saint Claire's ability that made undead weary of him, causing him them to go around and further away from the fight had allowed them to easily dispatch them away from the reach of the boss, especially as St. Claire could keep it occupied with his class giving him an advantage over the undead. [break][break]

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Valentine smiled at the shrug that Sami had given him, he didn’t think of it as dismissive, in fact, it was quite the opposite. Sami had given him his word and he was upholding it. As things stood that’s all Valentine needed. Sami was a good ally not just because he was willing to hold up his end of the deal but because he was also willing to face danger to uphold it. Valentine had value to him, and vice versa. Though his comment about performing at top performance, was definitely taken into consideration. “Indeed we did, and indeed I shall. I have no other option but too.” [break][break]

Valentine chuckled a bit as they jogged though he was concerned, he was still moving placing one foot after the other. “ That’s true perhaps if we can take down some monster we’ll get some good rewards,” Valentine said wondering what kind of drops the creatures like androids and mechs would even have drop. Perhaps they’d drop circuitry that could be used, or maybe some mechanical parts that could be used to build weaponry, perhaps even weaponry itself. He wasn’t too sure, he’ll he wasn’t even sure how he’d be able to combat one but if he wanted to find his sister he’d have to continue to search this area, and accept the risk involved. [break][break]

Valentine thought on Sami’s words ultimately coming to one conclusion, he was right. The fact of the matter was that the arrow stunk of a trap. He figured it could possibly lead them into danger the more he thought about it, but as his next thought came to mind, his mental musing was cut off by Sami’s words. This wasn’t what his sister would do, he didn’t know what she’d do in this moment things were so, so different. If anything she’d probably say screw this and try to run away, to find him or their parents. [break][break]

A single sentence would fall from his lips, “no she wouldn’t,” he said his eyes falling to the ground as he contemplated what he could possibly do. What could possibly be done? He was at a loss, he was just going to go with the flow but that wouldn’t be acceptable. So he did what he always did when he was conflicted, he took out his phone opening his horoscope app. The words read, “the information you want, is not the information you need,” what could that mean? Possibly that he wasn’t on the right path. [break][break]

“Right now, you feel like life is an experiment, and you are the scientist. There's no such thing as failure when you try something new. You have the answers,” he said reading out loud as he looked down at the phone. These horoscopes thankfully were preset, the app was still working one of the few besides games that didn’t require an internet connection. [break][break]

“I think we should head the other direction, if we can find some stairs we could possibly get to the roof, get to high ground from there we can probably get a better grasp on their surroundings. Once we’re up there I’ll need you to stand guard while I scout.” He said, as he turned to Sami, wondering he had any input. [break][break]

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"Hm, I see," Valentine said, putting a finger to his chin. Valentine opened his inventory, he took out a roll of measurement tape. He had taken it during his tutorial, but he wasn't sure when whether or not he'd lose or gain weight. With how scarce food could be on occasion, though this was before he knew that the hub existed. The first thing was first, he had locking gel, and some hair oils but nothing too specific for Sami's texture besides some styling gel.[break][break]

Thus he simply held out the measurement tape, asking "do you mind if I take your measurements at some point then? I'll probably have to do some searching to find you something as I doubt I have anything in my inventory that's your size, but I'm sure I can cut your hair," he said, glancing toward his inventory where a pair of scissors and electronic clippers, and an apron could be found. He had to cut his and St. Claire's hair somehow, couldn't let them go around looking haggard and raggedy after all, what would their mother say if she had seen them look such a mess?[break][break]

"I feel like blacks more your color, it would be a nice contrast to your hair and eyes, much more than that gown," he said with a chuckle. Valentine had always liked fashion, he had an eye for it and often tried to dress in a uniquely fashionable way himself. He loved color, specifically things on the color wheel between blue and purple, but he also knew that sometimes what could make a person pop, what could make them stand out more was simplistic, thus a simple shade of black, maybe a pop of color or design would be all Sami needed. Besides, he figured Sami wouldn't care for anything too flashy. [break][break]

Then when he moved over to cut Sami's hair, Valentine's senses began to tingle, it was that feeling he got when someone was near as if there were eyes on the back of his head. This sixth sense was arguably one of the more crucial aspects of his class that he enjoyed, in addition to Astral projecting letting him, scout, ahead, this portion of his passive ability allowed him to know when others were in the vicinity. Though it had a range limit based on meters as opposed to his astral projection which was miles it had proved to save his hide a number of times for close calls that had popped up when he moved around monster mobs. He hopped behind the couch, "Get down, someone coming," Valentine stated tossing the things back into his inventory, ducking down behind the couch, his mind flashing to the fact that he was stupid enough to leave the door open. [break][break]

He would have to think of something, something in case these people were here to be... Harmful. He had already decided to trust one visitor, but more, no, that was too much for his taste in one day, there was only so much goodwill he could offer. So much he was willing to let down his guard in this fucked up world. [break][break]

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Stepping through the waygate, Valentine had made sure to glance around with quick efficiency, unlike before when he lived here and took his tutorial here the place had looked to be a complete wreck. The technology in the area looked to be rapidly advanced, it was like something out of a mecha-based or futuristic video game. It was so strange, but even more so it was worrying, Valentine had come here in search of his sister, in search of his parents on the very slim chance they had been alive. Only to discover everything look so diffrent, Valentine had heard stories of whole parts of the earth being reformed during the initial incident, during the time of the tutorial, he had even gotten a glimpse of Japan as it was happening, but this... This wasn't the home he knew.[break][break]

A single tear fell down from Valentine's eyes as he realized life as he knew it there was no more, that his parents who had made their lives here were most likely gone for sure. He had suppressed the thought for so long, he had held out a sliver of hope for a such long time, but now this... This was like sinking in cement with no rope to pull himself out. His sadness turned to anger, to bitterness, all in the span of seconds. He wiped his tear and turned to Sami who had come with him to search for any signs of his family and sister. "We need to find cover," Valentine said, he quickly moved toward one of the nearest areas, a building that seemed to still be relatively normal in shape, the building looked abandoned, something that had been only slightly changed, slightly touched by the influence of earth's changing. [break][break]

The neon sign above the building read the words "Arcade," in Japanese Kanji. [break][break]

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Valentine smiled at Saint Claire's words chuckling a bit to himself as he continued ducking behind the cars that littered the roads of Herald Square. "Hey, it's not like I wanted to be scouting for that long, but this place is huge, I barely scratched the surface so I just started searching through nearby buildings. Started and ended with that Macy's and in case you haven't noticed the place is damn huge. On the plus side, all the new clothes for this season are out, so I'm sure we can grab a nice array of extra clothing." Valentine said, his love of fashion bubbling to the surface for a brief movement as he moved along the cars using them to hide his visage as he did.[break][break]

Eventually, they'd make their way toward the entrance, Valentine found himself trying to pry the door open, "yeah, my guess is there was, but then the tutorial and monsters happened, probably made for too big of a target area, especially with people running for food, and to check on their loved ones. It also doesn't surprise me considering that waygate is over there, everyone probably escaped into the hub as soon as they could," Valentine said grunting as he pushed tried to push the formally electronic doors open, "help me with this," he said grunting once more pushing for all he could muster. [break][break]

After the door was pried open, Valentine would then shut it, before moving inside, he glanced around smiling ear to ear, after they defeated that damn zombie that was milling about he was going to do some shopping with his handy dandy five-finger discount. [break][break]

Walking toward the escalator Valentine began to walk up, looking to St. Claire only to say, "let's go kill that zombie so we can shop in peace."[break][break]

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Valentine smiled as Elisande spoke, her words were reassuring sure, or at least they were meant to but with each passing second, Valentine felt more and more disheartened. His parents were already gone, and he knew for sure, and if they weren't he had yet to hear anything about them, see them, or even find them. Knowing his mother and father if they were alive they would've been standing by, stalking every waygate in this place until one of them came through. [break][break]

When Valentine and his little brother St. Claire had finished their tutorial and came here for a brief moment, they were nowhere to be found they only checked the outskirts of the waygate before hightailing it back to Tokyo to search for their sister, but as they looked around all they could do was confirm that their parents were indeed most likely gone. Especially as they had spotted a neighbor, who told them their house had been swallowed up in sink hole around the time everything had started going sideways at the beginning. [break][break]

"Nice to meet you Elisande, beautiful name." He said putting a bit of smoothness into his voice, any other time he was sure he'd float but this time, this wasn't the case, he had too much on his mind, too much that he was trying to keep from spilling over. [break][break]

Valentine nodded as she spoke, thankfully Elisande seemed to know the layout of this place much better than he did, all he knew of was the exits. "I've only checked out most of the exits, searching around the waygates, but that area you pointed to seems like a good place to start." He said, as he began to head toward it, "Say, if you don't mind me asking, why are you even bothering to help me? Everyone else I asked in this place just gave me the cold shoulder or was too catatonic to even speak." Valentine said, turning his eyes to meet Elisande's as he spoke, walking along the streets of the hub. [break][break]

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