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sbeeg
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Simple [Kass&Dio Day 1] Jun 21, 2019 21:34:44 GMT -5 via mobile

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Post by sbeeg on Jun 21, 2019 21:34:44 GMT -5

Kassandra tumbled through the doorway, her limbs tangled up in her violet robes as she crashed to the cold, hard floor. The metal was freezing against her cheek, but the rest of her body was drowning in the swathes of fabric. Frustrated, she yanked off the knots and meshes. Marsha had spent an overly long amount of time wrapping her up like a present and she tore through it in only a few seconds. She quickly wrapped a single thick layer of purple fabric around her body and over one shoulder. She then affixed a lightweight tulle over her arms and a thick knit around her waist. The rest she left in a crumpled pile on the floor. It would only weigh her down now.

She looked down to her arm where a wide span was of skin had been seared off from a gun’s laser. She touched the edge. The skin was crisp like bacon. Kass turned away, she didn’t want to think about that.

She looked through her bag, pulling out her own gun she’d managed to snag.

“We’re a man down but at least we’re armed,” she said, turning to an empty handed Dio. “You do have a weapon, right?”

The look on his face said otherwise.

“Dio you’re an idiot.”

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Simple [Kass&Dio Day 1] Jun 21, 2019 23:52:09 GMT -5

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Post by wimdy on Jun 21, 2019 23:52:09 GMT -5

Each step brings with it a renewed understanding that his leg hurts.

Stumbling through the door after Kassandra, Dio holds his left hand to his burnt thigh as he makes his way into a new room, eyes scanning quickly over the scene before rising to the panels of buttons and information and a hologram above him. It's all upside down. He only looks for a moment, quick to make sure there are no unexpected new friends or foes, before turning his attention to the watch on his wrist and flicking quickly through twenty-two other names to search for one in particular.

That's an odd even number...

When Dio finds the name he's looking for, his stomach drops. Blair Havoc, crossed out and italicized, sits between two other names he barely registers. His finger presses to the screen, willing it to take him to another page, but nothing happens.

“We’re a man down but at least we’re armed. You do have a weapon, right?”

Swallowing around the lump that has risen in his throat, Dio stares sightlessly down at the name of his district partner, at the girl who had told him he had to stop running, the girl who was supposed to play the game by his side.

The girl who told him they had to make allies.

They weren't friends, but she was what little left he'd had of home.

“Dio you’re an idiot.”

"Y'know, I have a feeling you or a few other people have mentioned that to me already..."

With a blink and a frown, he swivels in place, staring up at the consoles above him again and a few fixed cases around the room and beside some of the consoles. Dio places his foot against the wall, carefully walking his way perpendicular to Kassandra until he makes it to a station above her head and opens one of the cases.

A fire extinguisher.

"This'll do," he says, staring straight down at her with a slightly crooked grin. It was the best he can do for the time being. His eyes veer to the side, to the buttons and switches, and he hardly thinks before flipping one of the switches back and forth quickly, then a second one, watching the room and the hologram before them. "Think this is the whole arena?"