> Rose: Ambush.

[overthroen]

Characters: Rose & Nanami
Format: Prose
This log is: closed
Location: Nanami's room, prefect dorms
Warnings: Fighting

She waited inside Nanami's room. It had been easy enough breaking in - entering Fortitude had been a practice run, more or less. The window in the hall outside was not broken, this time, but eased carefully open, as if a passing prefect had desired a breeze.

Her staff wasn't here now, eschewed for a couple of shorter sticks about the length of her own Weapons. She crouched in the corner behind the door, sticks at the ready. And the moment the door creaked open, she leaped towards the intruder, intending to pin her down.

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[effortless]

Even without the snatched abilities this town had designated 'unfair' to her fellows, Nanami had noticed something amiss in the headquarters. It was her living space, after all. Was it Lelouch or Yuri? She'd been expecting one or the other to try something, eventually. They were both boring individuals like that... But no. She knew precisely where the two of them were. This was a different person.

How did she know? Why, because she'd just opened the door to her room, and someone had lunged towards her.

Repel them? No, better to take the attack and fall. 'People talk more when they believe they have the upper hand'... wasn't it? She'd learn more as a victim. Her head struck the floor, forcing a gasp of air, and she stared up at the unfamiliar girl, eyes half-lidded.

"Who are you?"

[overthroen]

Her heart was beating fast, she noticed suddenly. Only when she paused like this did she have time to take account of her bodily functions. The girl she'd just attacked was just taller than herself. She straddled her chest, pinning Nanami's arms to her sides, and held her sticks crossed at Nanami's neck. She hoped, she really hoped, that she'd be able to detect a counter-attack.

"No one in particular," she said. "But I think you knew my brother. Blond hair, sassy demeanor, recently deceased?" She presses harder against Nanami's next - enough to inflict pain, but not to cut off oxygen. "You had a hand in the last, I understand."

[effortless]

"Brother?" She considered it for a moment, apparently totally oblivious to the weapons pressed against her throat. Pain is nothing, after all... but at least she's aware of it enough to appreciate the intent. Who could this girl be related to? But then, she hadn't killed that many people. "Ah, you mean Dave? You do look a bit like him, I suppose... Although you all look alike, so it's a little difficult to make that kind of connection. You'll excuse me for not noticing sooner. More to the point, could you please get off me?"

[overthroen]

"So glad you have that facility." Rose settled down on Nanami's stomach. "But no, I'd rather you answer to your crimes. Tell me why he deserved death."

[effortless]

She suppressed the need to cough as the pressure on her stomach increased, and focused on just watching the girl's face above her.

"Well, it wasn't particularly that he deserved to die... More that there was no reason to make an effort to save him. Is that better? Or maybe it's worse."