GUEST SERVICES - AKIRA

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[survivaltricks]

[seems pleased that Plum remembers her!!]

Can you tell me a little bit about how she died?

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[ she's walking over to the massive windows to observe the sky from, depositing her tea cup and looking out ]

Mmm... There were three deaths that night, I believe. I can't say I quite remember the details of it.

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[watches her, not moving from his spot wherever he's sitting]

Rise-san couldn't, either. But she knew she died to protect someone else.

. . . who was the third that night?

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[ she thinks about it for a second ]

We didn't speak much. He was... tall, and carried a large sword. He stuck around with Miss Rise and her friend because they were young, I believe.

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[oh. . . he thinks he knows that person!!]

Cloud Strife?

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[ she thinks about it ]

... Yes, that sounds right. How did you know?

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Because I talked to him.

[said simply]

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[ ........ ]

Ah.

[ ah. ]

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Ah.

[that. is a strange reaction]

Is something wrong with that?

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Speaking to the dead is generally rather odd, sir, yes.

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[ha]

[his mouth twitches]

I was able to reach them through a oujia board. Did you and your sisters never try that yourself?

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The ... what board?

[ that's a no ]

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[. . . HM]

Can we go to the museum? I'll show you.

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[ she nods a little, brushing off her skirt, and she starts the long trek down the stairs, apparently expecting akira to follow even though he said. he'd show her. ]

Did the ghosts have anything of interest to say, sir?

[survivaltricks]

I feel like ghosts always have interesting things to say.

[definitely following her even though he said he'd show her. . .]

Rise-san talked a little bit about the announcements that happened during her dinner party. She said they were kind of like ours, in that they encouraged people to kill others.

But they were also. . . different.

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[ she's got one ear flopped and one ear up as she listens, her shoes going tap tap tap tap on the stairs as they walk ... ]

That's very possible, sir. There have been many announcements in the time we have worked here... I have to admit, we've stopped listening to them by now. It is little more than white noise for us.

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[they're getting their exercise in. . .]

That's what Pumpkin said when I asked her about them.

[hm]

Do you know where the announcements come from?

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[ without missing a beat: ]

The announcements are coming from inside the house.

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Shocking. Riveting information.

[HE STARTS OFF SARCASTICALLY. . . but then, wait--]

From someone specific inside the house?

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[ she frowns lightly ... not that he can see it as she is still leading them, but he can see her head tilt, both ears droopy ]

I would not say that exactly, no.

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[watching her ears. . . they're distracting!]

What would you say, then?

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Exactly what it is I have said. The announcements are coming from inside the house.

[ this explains ..... nothing. they finish stepping down the stairs and she turns to face akira for a second ]

Those announcements... they have all sounded like different people, correct?

[survivaltricks]

[THIS EXPLAINS NOTHING]

[. . . he does pause though, and nods when Plum asks him that question, though he seems a bit bewildered]

They do. And I don't think any two announcements have been the same.

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Then it would be wrong to guess they come from a specific person, would it not?

[ that said she turns around and starts walking again!! back to the museum they go. she gives a pretty wide berth to the room he'll explore later... ]

[survivaltricks]

[. . . hah]

Good point.

[then. . .?]

Are they coming from the ghosts that haunt this place?