rakuen | [Round 2, Day 5] If you seek you shall find

Characters: Grenn, anyone else
Format: Prose preferred, action possible
This log is: open
Location: All over campus, variously close to the towers
Summary: Grenn is checking out all the towers (that she can reach), come with if you feel like it!

Grenn was aware there would probably be nothing to find when she'd wandered around to all the towers, but it was worth a try. There would probably be nothing visible, but then, when she'd hacked the system, there had been nothing visible there either, and see how that turned out.

Turning from the tower that stood by the entrance where the tram came in, Grenn wandered towards the first on her list; the one at the courtyard. She'd come to the others in time. Grenn grimaced as she scuffed her foot, having accidentally dragged it, and as pain shot up from the over-tuned/faulty connected nerves.

She hoped she someday would get used to the pain the prostethics caused, or at least be fully able to push it down to a subconcious level while she wore them.

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Romeo nodded and stepped back as well, he thought it would be a good idea to get closer and work out why the tower was humming, but Grenn knew better than him and he wasn't going to disobey her. It was strange that this one was humming when the other's wern't, in his dream the humming had been loud like all the towers were humming together.

"Do you think if all the towers hum thats what makes the star come?" He asked as he followed Grenn letting her lead the way to the next tower as he had no idea where it was.

"Since we have no idea what the star you mentioned mean... Maybe." Grenn shrugged and then led Romeo around the side of the locked-away tower, until they stood by the wall, forest to the right of them.

"Let's follow the wall to the other towers, saves time going back out into the school areas and then into the forest again. The towers are all along the wall anyway," Grenn said and started walking, one hand against the wall. Partly for support, because frag it they'd been walking for a while now and on this uneven ground and it wasn't making the pain any less.

And then there was the fact that she just felt more secure with something so man-made beside her.

Romeo nodded, it was so strange this place where even the adults didn't know what was going on. He nodded and followed Grenn as they walked next to the wall, the fact that she was holding onto the wall did not pass Romeo by. Was she tired? Or were the crutches hurting her?

"Do you want to stop? We can rest here, I don't think there's any wolves." Or tigers, if the tiger wanted to come and stop them exploring the towers it would have eaten them by now.

She was not---! Grenn snapped her mouth shut and managed a smile. She couldn't snap at the boy, that wouldn't be right... Instead she just shook her head, but it took almost a minute to collect the words.

"It won't help to rest... It's constant until I take them off. We'll just finish this, I think." There was only two towers left, she could do this.

"I'll be fine, Romeo." When she got the prostethics off, that was, but this, like the spar with Kallen, was good training. She needed to be able to stand this pain for longer periods of time.

Romeo blinked and nodded looking upset, he hated to think of other people in pain. He knew the crutches hurt her more then she let on, people always lied about how much pain they were in. Even Alfredo had lied, had told Romeo that he was fine right up to the night he had died. Romeo frowned spirits up!

"Why are girls so stubborn Alfredo!" He muttered as he walked along beside Grenn. He thought of Angeletta who had almost killed herself trying to see Lady Isabella, and Bianca and Nikkita. He missed them, but he had missed them all for a long time, not just since coming to this place. Still Bianca has been coming to visit him, and now she wouldn't know where he was.

Spirits up! "Come on then, let's see if the next tower is humming!" He gave a big smile, trying to stay positive.

Grenn hid a smile behind her hand as Romeo muttered to himself over the stubbornness of girls. Indeed, why were girls so stubborn? With a mental snort, Grenn knew that was simply how she was. Or maybe people were just rather stubborn in general, especially when they knew there was nothing to do about a situation.

"Right," Grenn said with a nod in reply to Romeo's attempt at be positive, but when they arrived at the next-to-last tower some time later, it was quiet, no matter how much they strained their ears. Grenn shook her head, noted down the angelic name on the plaque by the side, and led Romeo past the tower to follow the wall again, towards the last tower.

"I wonder if it's random, which tower hums... That one is opposite of the entrance..." Did that mean anytying? Did the same tower hum every day? Grenn suppressed a grimace; she had neither the urge nor inclination to look up if the same tower hummed every day, so that would simply have to be an assumption that it did...

The next tower wasn't humming, Romeo frowned and tried to work out what made the other tower hum. In his dream all the towers were humming, or at least the sound was much louder. He wandered next to the gate, pressing his face to the bars and studying the plaque though he couldn't read it. "Maybe they change? Or maybe they go in a special order?" He could come and check the next day to see if it changed.

"Last tower, maybe this one will have an answer." Romeo doubted it though, but he wasn't about to give up.

"Maybe they do... I would assume not, but..." Grenn shook her head. She was tired and she was hurting, but she managed to keep her voice calm and without any strain, she thought.

The last tower, of course, was also completely quiet.

"Well, okay... Unless it changes, which towers hums, we now know which is important, at least for now..." Grenn grimaced and frowned at the tower beyond the locked gate, wrote down the last name.

"Come on, let's get out of here."

She wasn't going to admit out loud that she wanted to sit down for a week and not touch her legs for a month. But she'd put them on again if it was needed.

"Maybe I can come check tomorrow?" He was in the forests most day to pick apples anyways, he frowned up at the last tower, wishing that it had given them the answers that they wanted. But still they had learnt a few things, at least Romeo hoped that Grenn understood more about what the towers meant now. Romeo was still confused.

"Alright!" He grinned and followed Grenn back to the courtyard his stomach rumbled as he did so and he wrinkled his nose. "I'm hungry! Do you think it's lunch time?" Being given as much food as he wanted seemed to be making Romeo more hungry not less.

"If you want to do that, Romeo. But only if you want to," Grenn said with a small smile and a shrug. She wasn't going to say he had to, there was no reason for that.

"Maybe it is. I'm going to my dorm, though, so you can just go to the dining hall, perhaps?" She wanted to lay down for a few hours. Disconnect her legs and revel in not being in pain.

"I will, miss Grenn!" He would as well and if anything changed Grenn would be the first to know. He grinned at her and nodded as they got to the dorm buildings. "I will, thank you for lettting me come with you!"

He gave another smile and a wave and skipped off to the dining hall, still filthy and soot covered but not caring, he was too hungry and tired to go all the way to the lake to wash before lunch.

[Round 2, Day 5] If you seek you shall find

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