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Characters: Kallen Koizuki and Meryl Silverburgh
Format: Either
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Location: By the train tracks
Summary: Kallen and Meryl try and fail to escape.
Warnings: Possibly strong language near the end

Well, this was... too easy. What was keeping everyone from just walking out again? There weren't even any guards around. Meryl arrived a bit early, thinking there'd be a fight, but instead just ended up waiting. Kallen would be here soon enough, so hopefully noone would see her by then.

In the meantime, she couldn't help but start to wonder. Would anyone really believe her story? Would she really be able to rescue everyone else? Hell, she was still technically supposed to be dead.

No, Meryl couldn't think that way. If nobody else would help them, then she would. But she needed to escape first.

By the time Kallen showed up, Meryl was growing anxious about what they were doing. This may have been easy, but too much was riding on it.

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"So either this is a trap or just no one ever noticed how easy this is." There really wasn't much to go on. Not like a lot of information was given right from the start.

"Or everyone was too lazy to bother." She smiled a bit as she kept walking. She fully expected an ambush, which is why she "borrowed" one of the free weights from the gym. Between that and all of the provisions she hoarded for the trip, it was pretty clear that players had way too many freedoms. Maybe that's why being a weapon with 'no' rights really wasn't that bad.

"Maybe. Some people made themselves right at home despite being taken from their homes." But even still, some things didn't make sense. How this world was connected slightly to Tsuki's or even how the rules seemed to have changed. Something was going on and Kallen seriously did not want to find out.

She thought for a good while, until she remembered what one child said; some of them had never had a day of formal schooling in their lives. "Maybe this is better then some of their homes."

Meryl wasn't even aware of the changes. All she knew is that someone found out where she lived without any official documentation and then kidnapped her, all without anyone noticing. Whoever these people were, the rules of the rest of the world may not even apply to them.

Kallen shrugged. Maybe it might have been, but to be thrown into an unfamiliar world so suddenly. It still wasn't fair.

She continued down the tracks. "I'm surprised we haven't run into a train. Or rather, it run into us."

It wasn't fair, and it wasn't right. Everyone here had lives, and kidnapping them to play a game was just evil.

"It must not run that many times a day." They certainly weren't being kidnapped in bulk, at least not after the first train run.

And that's why Kallen didn't want to play.

"I'm probably just used to the trains back home. Speaking of," Kallen started, "What's it like in your world?"

"My world?" That was a strange way to ask, but she still answered.

"It's pretty cold, and there aren't a lot of people around. I haven't been there for very long, but... the scenery is beautiful." There was a lot more to it then that, and her sudden change in attitude showed that. She didn't even want to think about that life; it may not even be there for her when she got back. She had to change the subject, and fast.

"What about you?" She suddenly perked up. "What was your home like?"

World. Home. Kallen pretty much used them as a coin.

Kallen caught quick of the tension. Sometimes, she seriously forgot how much of a sensitive subject it could be. "Its recovering. A lot happened. A war really. But despite the tragedies and causalities, it's still the only place I'd want to be."

"The people you care about are there, and that's all that really matters, right?" She smiled and nodded, while she tried to avoid pressing the matter any further. She knew that losing others to war was devastating, and could only imagine that it would be hard to talk about it.

"So where do you think this leads, anyway?"

Kallen kept silent for what seemed to be a minute, but was for only a couple of seconds. Of course there was her mother who took the top of the list, no questions asked. Then Ohgi, but he was off doing his own thing, helping better relations every which way he could. And there were the remaining members of disbanded Black Knights. But none of them ranked as high as Lelouch. And he was HERE, not there.

A long recovery silence.

"Hopefully to a station and off this island."

...

Oh.

She thought that reassuring would make this a bit less worrying, but that seemed to backfire. After a long awkward silence, it was pretty obvious that it was time to drop the subject.

"Or just straight off of this damn island."

"I'd be fine with that too." It wasn't much to lose all the people she had talked to, but this was more important. She wanted to go back home. Nothing would ever change that.

Going home was a top priority, and not just for them. The second she got out, she was reporting this to the nearest authorities.

But after a while, it seemed more and more suspicious. How far out in the middle of nowhere is this, anyway?

What? They had been walking for over an hour now and... nothing? This was getting a little strange.

"Hold on a second."

Kallen pulled out a pouch that contained a blade inside of it. Moving off the tracks for a moment, she marked a tree. Not that she thought it was completely possible for some sort of weird loop to go on, but just to make sure...

Meryl expected the tracks to go on for a while, but this was starting to get a little tiring. Maybe this is why it was left unguarded.

"You don't think we're stuck on this path, do you?" The markings were a bit worrying. If they were going in circles, they would have at least seen an intersection by now, right?

"I don't know but I feel like I should expect just about everything coming from this place."

"Hopefully, we'll be out of range of whatever's going on in that weird school soon." It can't possibly extend this far out, right?

"Let's keep going." Kallen wanted out and she wanted out now.

A train whistle.

Odd, because a tram shouldn't necessarily have one, but that's what you can hear. Quiet at first, but in a rush it gets louder and louder until it sounds as though it's right in front of you. The tracks are still empty.

The whistle is unbearably loud, and then it goes totally silent.

You're also standing on the station platform.

Weird.

....

[What was that? She didn't feel a train hit.]

......

[Isn't this where they started? It is! The school's just over there!]

........

[SHIT.]

What... just happened?

Kallen went to cover her ears to block some of the noise out from the loud whistle. She ducked her head and closed her eyes. But when she opened them...

Was that walk just for nothing?

"The hell--"

She looked over in disbelief. This... this just wasn't happening.

"We can't leave."

"Son of a bitch!" They were trapped there. No wonder it wasn't guarded; they accounted for everything.

Well, not everything, exactly. There was a reason this was so bizarre, and she was going to find it out. If the entire school got dismantled in the process... oh well.

She tried her best to control herself. To be quite honest, Kallen really wanted to slam her fist into a tree. But doing do would only cause harm to herself.

This was not fair. They were captives in an unknown world without even the striking possibility that they can remove themselves of this place.

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