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[fishpanties]

K-Kaito? [ Softly, at first, and shaken. She touched the still-wet blood staining her front, touched the ragged tear in her shirt that marked the entry point of the bullet—pressed her hand over her ribs, over her heart, feeling the rise and fall and the steady, rhythmic beating…

And then she threw herself out of the bedroom she'd found herself in. The hallway was deserted; she broke into a run. ]

KAITO! ANSWER ME!

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[azurebeneath]

I can rest once we've found him. [already heading down the hallway, her pace brisk if somewhat unsteady] Knowing that idiot, he'll manage to get himself in some sort of trouble without one of us around.

[fishpanties]

… Some things never change.

[ She catches up quickly and trots alongside her double. As hard as it is to walk, it's even harder to resist the urge to break into a run. ]

[azurebeneath]

It would be reassuring... if it weren't so frustrating.

[keeps to this pace for now, reaching up with her free hand to claw some webs out of her hair with a shudder]

Damned spiders...

[fishpanties]

[ The quip about Kaitos earns something that might've been a laugh, under normal circumstances. It comes out too much like a hysterical giggle for Aoko's liking. ]

...

What happened?

[azurebeneath]

There was...

[trails off and shudders again, clearly not eager to recount whatever happened.

She keeps raking at her hair the whole time, until a spiny, chitinous, overly large spider's leg falls out of the tangled locks and bounces off her arm to the floor. Miss Nakamori stops dead and yelps, taking a hurried step back from it and combing her hair even more furiously]

[fishpanties]

[ ldfjk Aoko can't supress a surprised and disgusted eek when the spider's leg tumbles out of her double's hair. All the same, she moves closer. ] Let me help!

[azurebeneath]

I-it should be fine, I'm sure that was the only one...

[really hoping that was the only one]

[fishpanties]

Are you sure?

[azurebeneath]

[humourless laugh]

As sure as I can be.