Snippet #1907442

Crow looked at the eccentric girl, looking confused. The boy wondered how the hell she could be so happy when she'd just found out she wasn't even human. He found it hard to see in the darkness, but luckily, he'd learnt to concentrate and block out everyone around him so he could focus his eyes carefully. After all, he did live in an apartment where the lights would literally explode and shatter glass onto the floor. He looked at the girl, finally being able to see her. He still couldn't see very well, but it was. . . better. "Hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Miki, written with the characters 'beautiful' and 'precious'. Haha, conceited much, aren't I? What's your name?" she said, and the purple haired boy looked at her in surprise. He never really told people his name. Most of the time, they just find out.

"Karasu." he said quietly, before correcting himself. "But call me Crow." The boy didn't really mind when people called him Karasu, but he generally doesn't respond to that name. Since he was called Crow since birth, his mother just put down Karasu so it sounded like a proper name and not a nickname.

Other people were starting to approach them, and Crow tensed up a little. Being unable to see fully made him feel a bit out of his comfort zone. He looked at the people, but only concluded that they were Ningen no Kami, like him, and just wanted to get out. He was busy observing the room and trying to find a way out when someone landed on him. The boy didn't make a noise, and didn't see the girl properly, but he felt weird all the same. He probably shouldn't, since he wasn't feeling anything earlier, but now, he could feel the embarrassment. "Hey!" he said angrily, standing up when he finally felt the girl get off him, and he stood up. One of the guys, he could see, was taller than him. The other was around the same height. The girls were all generally his height too. Before, he was always smaller than everyone else, so it felt weird.

When he heard footsteps outside, he only flinched slightly, but was more relieved that there was an 'outside'. And that there was obviously a way to get in, if there was a way to get out. A steam filled the place, after someone more or less scared off the first person, and was a bit surprised. He zoned out for a second, thinking of his life before. He murmured the simple name "Chase" under his breath, feeling bad that he didn't apologise.

"Ah! Shouldn't we go to school? I wanna go to school! Can I?" The voice snapped him out of his thoughts.

"Relax. For all we know, there might not even be such a place as 'school'," Came another voice, replying before he could. "And even if there was, I doubt we'd just be allowed to stroll out of here. Can't you read the poster on the wall? It says 'what happens here stays here,' doesn't it? I'm pretty sure that includes us, given that this entire facility seems to have been designed to create us. I don't know what kind of fake lives all of you guys were living in those tubes, but I, for one, have read some sci-fi, even if none of it was 'real.'" Crow felt the air quotes there, smirking a bit. He always understood the concept of 'air quotes', since he tended to use them a lot when talking. "I'm Hitori Ayumu. Let's all just introduce ourselves, and then figure out some sort of way to get out of here quiet-like."

"My name's Crow L- no, wait. Karasu Hōno." he said, almost forgetting the name which was on his Shikenkan and very nearly said his old name. "But seriously, just call me Crow. There's probably a way out, since there's a way in. That person earlier, was he trying to get in? The way in is the way out, so there must be a mechanism like whatever I heard him using in here somewhere. But I can't see." He said, before adding, rather sarcastically: "Duh."