001 | Evening | Open

[overprotecting]

[ He opens his eyes slowly, body feeling heavy and uncooperative. All he can see is dark. ]

Subaru? [ No reply... no sound at all. His heartbeat begins to speed up. His hands press up against something solid and crumbling and cold. ]

Subaru?! [ He pushes at the stone in front of him, breaths coming out quick and shallow. A stone box. And he is trapped. Kamui begins to pound on the stone. Shoving, pushing with his feet, all the while starting to smell acid rain and rotting concrete. Stale, sick blood. Tasting sand in his mouth -- powder from the stone? He can't tell. ]

Subaru?! [ They had been together. Subaru could be in the same situation. He has to get out--

In his panic, he's managed to rock the tomb over, knocking the lid loose. He tumbles onto the floor, choking on his own breath and the dust in the room. ]

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[overprotecting]

[ He instinctively returns the embrace, and buries his face in Subaru's shoulder. After everything they'd just left, he couldn't handle another separation. For a long moment, it doesn't appear he even heard what his twin had said, but then he sits up, more slowly. ]

You're not sick.

[oversleeping]

I'm not. [Subaru won't even try to deny it. Not to Kamui.] Not anymore. [He while he doesn't want to worry his brother, he's not going to hide the fact that he's been here, alone, for some time already.] The illness should fade before the day is over.

[overprotecting]

... anymore? [ He still doesn't really understand. He'd just seen Subaru less than a minute...

But, had he? He doesn't remember anything that would cause them to be sent to a place like this. In dozens of worlds, they'd never emerged separated, trapped in tombs. ]

Subaru, what's happened?

[oversleeping]

I've already been here for some time. [Subaru moves to rise and carefully pull Kamui up with him.] Two weeks, nearly. Any illness I suffered upon arriving has faded.