Phobe's Outing, Thread 2 Klaymen!i/OHE/sPZ6 2010/04/28 (Wed) 01:56 No. 20877 [Reply] ▼ [x] People.
“Where are there a lot of people? I want to see a whole bunch of them.”
“People?” She asks, bending down to slip on her shoes as well. “Sure, it's a weekday morning. There'll be plenty.”
“Weekday?” You ask, never having come across the term before.
“Instead of a weekend,” She says, “But I guess you don't worry about those things, do you?”
You shake your head, still not getting it. “Nope. I'm curious though~”
“Right,” She says, cracking open the door that leads to the inside, so that you can go down and outside. “Basically we work on weekdays, while weekends are more of a break.”
You nod. “So everyone's working today?”
“Not everyone,” She says, shrugging. “I mean, there's people without jobs, or people who took the day off. Strange youkai pretending to be humans too, I guess.”
Oh, that makes sense. Kind of. You'll ask more later, after you get back. A human wouldn't be asking all this stuff, because they don't need to. And you're pretending to be a normal human right now. Not a youkai that's pretending to be a human.
She takes you in the reverse path that you followed yesterday. Into the tiny room, then down, then out of the building. It's kind of obvious that she's a little nervous. Shouldn't she be pretending to be normal, too? Well, maybe pointing it out wouldn't be normal, so you don't.
Outside's a lot more noisy than it was yesterday. A bit more smelly. There's a whole bunch more cars on the road part, and a whole bunch more people on the sidewalk part. Little people, big people, all kinds. All wearing strange clothes. It's really strange here. They all look kind of... weak, too. It's strange.
Strange. But it's not bad to see it. You follow behind Renko, who seems to be going somewhere in particular. After a little while, she stops. It looks like she wants to go forward, but there's a whole bunch of people in the way.
She notices your curious look, and shrugs. You want to ask, but... right. You can ask later. If you were a hu
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