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Who: Parrot, Orion, anyone?
Where: ORION
When: Day 299, noon-ish
What: Using the door for once.

[KNOCKING ON ORION'S DOOR]

It's Parrot.

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[The walls flicker; the room flickers. The bleached-out world seems to flatten even farther, giving everything a shade of unreality.]

Maybe you weren't looking.

I pay attention to what's in here.

[especially with you injured, but I'm not going to say that]

And let's face you, you would have told me beforehand about this. It's stuff that could get me killed, yeah? Of course you would have told me.

[Still not moving from where he's holding onto the wall.]

...mm. Maybe.

What do you mean "maybe"?

[The room flickers again.]

[Mitsuru does not reply.]

—the hell was that?

[Closes his eyes.]

Did you listen?

Listen to what?

The walls.

Our walls don't talk, little guy. What part of it makes sense to you...? It's not real, snap out of it. This whole thing happened in one second, right out of the blue. How the hell does that make sense?

You gotta focus and make this go away.

What if it's real?

[oh no not that face.]

It's not. There's no way it can be real, I was downstairs just before checking up on you, and nothing of this happened. Parrot would have said something before leaving too if he saw any of this, yeah...? You know the guy.

[Something is moving in the corner of the room. It looks a lot more solid than shadows.]

...maybe.

[that doesn't scream safe]

—Come on, little guy! This doesn't look a thing like how our dorms were just yesterday, snap out of it already! I told you I'd notice the changes for you, trust me on this!

[It looks like the stone of the dorm is starting to boil up, actually.]

I... how were they yesterday?

Not boiling up, for once. The hole wasn't that large, we fixed it with Hydra's help, remember? And there was no sign.

[And there are certainly hands of rock slipping out across the floor to come oozing over this way. Half of the floor is oozing over this way, actually. Have you ever seen the earth go crazy? cause now is your chance.]

No sign, no hole...

But it's always been like this.

No, it wasn't! It wasn't like this when Grace died. You remembered what happened with her? Come on, Mitsuru!

[Pauses. That seems to get through. The floor is rapidly encroaching on the foot of the stairs, though. :|b]

[He goes silent, frowning in concentration.]

Get rid of this already!

[The room flickers. The shadows and the boiling stone flicker, too.]

[Then, like a light blinking out, it's gone, and the dorm is back to the way it was.]